Venezuela leader Maduro alleges Colombia assassination plot

[MADem]

34. I have to wonder how they're going to fabricate dole checks,

and chicken, rice and beans for the market shelves!

The government would probably have had a good chance of success with some (not all, but many) of their policies if they had only not permitted all the graft and corruption, not nationalized every frigging thing and appointed either idiots or greedy thieves to oversee the industries, and watched their spending. They also need to stop being a vassal state to Cuba and stop handing over so damn much of their oil revenue without anything of equal value being provided in return--that "doctors" program is nice, and it does provide assistance to the poor in the countryside, but it's not worth what they are paying for it (plus, many of the doctors are forced to do it and they're not happy about it). Cuba is robbing them blind. They'd do better to set up a couple of medical schools IN VZ and grow more of their own doctors, nurses, and physician's assistants.

There's no auditing, no oversight, and they're too eager to placate on the one hand, and unwilling to tackle serious issues like crime and drug abuse and outright graft/corruption/theft on the other. It's a recipe for failure. One day the Chinese are going to say no, and then they'll be in a real fix.

It's just a shittily run outfit; that's the biggest problem. One's heart can be in the right place, but if one lacks the business acumen to realize one's goals, the thing is going to go all pear-shaped in a hurry. I do think Maduro is being set up to take the fall, and perhaps some of his paranoid rantings are because he's starting to feel that way, too.