So the Rich Socialists among us are sharing stuff like this:

I am not surprised they are gloating because they desperately need to get one win somehow and, of course, they need to lie.

What is the difference between bare supermarket shelves  this week in the USA versus the bare shelves in Venezuela? That more than likely, the shelves in the US will be restocked the next day while the ones in Socialist Venezuela will take months (if ever) to be restocked.

While under Trump, companies have raised production (and thus unemployment dropping,) in Venezuela the opposite (read Socialism) happened:

In 1998, a year before the late President Hugo Chávez took office, there were 12,700 private companies in Venezuela. Over the next 19 years, until 2017, that number dropped to 3,200. And only in 2018, Conindustria calculates that another 1,000 stopped operating, which means that around 10,500 closed in the 2 decades that the “Bolivarian revolution” of Chávez and Nicolás Maduro has led.

“If we add the 700 industries that closed in the first two quarters of this year with that 7% that affirmed that it was not operational in the third period, and we add a projection for the fourth quarter, almost 1,000 companies closed this year. A drama of epic proportions ”, explained Juan Pablo Olalquiaga, president of Conindustria, in the presentation of the results of the Conjuncture Survey for the third quarter.

Venezuela: En dos décadas se han cerrado 10.000 empresas en el país (December 2018)

No country can endure a 95% reduction of their means of production and commerce. There is only one big business left in Venezuela, Empresas Polar, which produces whatever is left of the foodstuffs in Venezuela.  Even dumbass President Maduro has realized that screwing with that private company will end up sinking what’s left of the nation and lets it be. But even so, Empress Polar cannot feed everybody and the other companies that covered the difference are now bones picked by Chavistas and cashed in hard currency for their own bank accounts.

Oh yes, they will show you some supermarkets well stocked with the best there is, but the prices can only be afforded by those with US Dollars or Euros as it is all imported and very expensive. They are the Venezuelan Equivalent of the Soviet Party Stores.

But how about the Worker’s taking Control of the Means of Production? They don’t need the owners or top honchos, right? Well, that old Communist dogma has been proven a complete catastrophe.  It seems that people who bitched about the government not being able to patch potholes, actually believed that they were going to guide people into producing what the country needed with efficiency and at a low cost. Almost every single private company that the Socialist government has taken over, it has met with disaster and no consumer goods are being produced or they are, but at laughable levels and downright nasty quality.  If supermarkets were to call the canning facilities under control of the government and place an order, they may get a shipment, more than likely less than half of what they ordered and delivered between 3 and 4 months down the road. In the US, supermarkets and big box stores are being regularly restocked every single frigging day and Mom and Pops probably no more than 24 hours after they place the order.

So basically dear Socialist Idiots (but I repeat myself) your one day inconvenience in the US it has been the official way of living for Millions of Venezuelans for years now. And that is what you will get in a Bernie government.