When Venezuela turned to socialism, liberals here were thrilled celebrities, college professors, the media, democrat politicians. They couldn't wait to genuflect before the thug dictator. Here go Chavez, especially when he smeared America and Bush forty three at the u N. Well, now, almost twenty years later, Venezuela has gone down the tubes. There are shortages of everything, including power, even though it's an oil rich country. There are thousands upon thousands of
failed businesses. The economy is in absolute shambles. But this past weekend was the clearest demonstration yet of how bad things are. Over one hundred thousand people on foot across a new border checkpoint from Venezuela into Colombia, and they were searching for food. They were trying to buy rice, milk, flour, other basic commodities they can't get at home. Well, they can get it on Venezuela's flourishing black market if they can afford to pay the ten thousand percent mark up
for food. In some cities, people are scavenging dumpsters, even taking spoiled vegetables and bones to have some thing to feed their families. None of this misery is an accident, folks. It is a direct result of the socialist policies of Hugo Chavez and his successor. And now that Venezuela's economies and collapse and unrest is spreading, our liberally leads are nowhere to be found. You could say Venezuela's chickens have come home to roost. But if a chicken shows up
there these days, it's days are over. It's snatched up for dinner, it's in a pot before it even knows what the squawk about.