Speaker 1: When Venezuela turned to socialism, liberals here were thrilled celebrities,
Speaker 1: college professors, the media, democrat politicians. They couldn't wait to
Speaker 1: genuflect before the thug dictator. Here go Chavez, especially when
Speaker 1: he smeared America and Bush forty three at the u N. Well, now,
Speaker 1: almost twenty years later, Venezuela has gone down the tubes.
Speaker 1: There are shortages of everything, including power, even though it's
Speaker 1: an oil rich country. There are thousands upon thousands of
Speaker 1: failed businesses. The economy is in absolute shambles. But this
Speaker 1: past weekend was the clearest demonstration yet of how bad
Speaker 1: things are. Over one hundred thousand people on foot across
Speaker 1: a new border checkpoint from Venezuela into Colombia, and they
Speaker 1: were searching for food. They were trying to buy rice, milk, flour,
Speaker 1: other basic commodities they can't get at home. Well, they
Speaker 1: can get it on Venezuela's flourishing black market if they
Speaker 1: can afford to pay the ten thousand percent mark up
Speaker 1: for food. In some cities, people are scavenging dumpsters, even
Speaker 1: taking spoiled vegetables and bones to have some thing to
Speaker 1: feed their families. None of this misery is an accident, folks.
Speaker 1: It is a direct result of the socialist policies of
Speaker 1: Hugo Chavez and his successor. And now that Venezuela's economies
Speaker 1: and collapse and unrest is spreading, our liberally leads are
Speaker 1: nowhere to be found. You could say Venezuela's chickens have
Speaker 1: come home to roost. But if a chicken shows up
Speaker 1: there these days, it's days are over. It's snatched up
Speaker 1: for dinner, it's in a pot before it even knows
Speaker 1: what the squawk about.