Socialist Venezuela Runs Out of Beer

All American socialists who want Bernie Sanders to become the next president of the United States need to take a long, hard look at Venezuela.

The country has fallen into a deep economic pit.

There is a shortage in Venezuela of just about anything that needs to be imported.  Now, beer will be a thing of the past in the socialist-ridden nation. BEER.

From Daily Caller:

The latest economic casualty in Venezuela under its perpetual Bolivarian socialist revolution is beer.

Empresas Polar SA, which produces 80 percent of the beer consumed in Venezuela, halted production at the last of its four beer factories on Friday, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The company’s other three factories were shuttered over the course of last week.

Empresas Polar has laid off 6,500 employees. Another 3,500 workers will lose their jobs by the end of next week when the supply of the company’s beer is expected to sell out.

Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s socialist president, has responded by accusing Empresas Polar of conspiring against the Venezuelan government and the country’s 30 million people. Maduro called the company’s closure “a serious crime.” He also threatened to seize the company, which owes international companies hundreds of millions of dollars for imported raw materials.

“Plant closed, plant reclaimed, a plant that we’ll put into production, with the law in our hands,” the handpicked successor of Hugo Chávez said in a speech this week, according to the Journal.

Empresas Polar also manufactures other products including food and soft drinks. It has long been forced to sell many of those products at a loss because of the socialist government’s price controls.

Newly-unemployed workers are shocked — shocked! — about losing their jobs.

Every “feel the Bern” reject should be forced to read and then summarize this article.

Beer is still a minor loss for Venezuelans, as they suffer widespread sickness caused by their country’s dirty air and water and are forced to wear dirty clothes because there is a shortage of laundry detergent.

Food and medicine are increasingly scarce. The military has had to take over security for food distribution because the shortages are causing people to panic.

Venezuelans don’t even have toilet paper and a drought has led to pervasive electricity shortages as Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro continues to blame the US for his country’s problems.

Socialism at its finest.

Capitalism is the only way to keep people employed and inspired to work for their dreams.