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Venezuela's president has implimented a forced labor law on it's people

Aristaeus said:
In reality, it's more like a compulsory reassignment on a temporary basis.
These people are already working, they'll just be working in a different location for a couple of months.
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That's pitiful. If it wasn't people's lives it would be funny. Isn't this what Pol Pot did in Cambodia before the people got their heads chopped off with shovels? It is amazing that someone can consider slave labor as merely changing the location of their work.
 
RetiredUSN said:
Still.... another 60 days of forced labor.

If Maduro's decree isn't a voluntary proposition to the citizens, then it is forced labor regardless of if they are paid or not.

And, they are still labor camps regardless if the the citizens are paid or not.

Please.........get your ducks in a row before you throw out the "nonsense" tag.
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They are not labour camps. there are no camps. It is people with relevant skills being seconded by the government from their normal jobs to agricultural jobs for a limited period whilst still being paid. So for example, a car mechanic might have to spend a couple of months having to fix tractors instead of cars.

Far less worse than the US draft for Vietnam.
 
Patrickt said:
That's pitiful. If it wasn't people's lives it would be funny. Isn't this what Pol Pot did in Cambodia before the people got their heads chopped off with shovels? It is amazing that someone can consider slave labor as merely changing the location of their work.
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It's completely disingenuous and insulting to compare this with slavery. Did slaves only have to work for 60 days and be paid for it? These people won't be whipped or killed. This is nowhere near as bad as the US draft for Vietnam.
 
Aristaeus said:
It's completely disingenuous and insulting to compare this with slavery. Did slaves only have to work for 60 days and be paid for it? These people won't be whipped or killed. This is nowhere near as bad as the US draft for Vietnam.
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How disingenuous was it to suggest it was only relocating where they were going to work for just sixty days? When you're consider socialist paradises, saying the people aren't whipped or killed is ludicrous. The USSR, Nazi Germany, Cambodia, North Korea, Cuba, China have a wonderful record, don't they?

Venezuela has one great problem. Socialism.
 
Aristaeus said:
Cuba would be in a much better position if it weren't for 50 years of US sanctions.
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That is why it was so criminally negligent of the Castros to ally their country to the Soviet for private reasons and not open up trade. Like IRan, they could have normalized their relationship with the international community in the 1980s with no problems and probably they could have done so earlier. But the dictator and his boys wanted to be dictators and so.....
 
Grim17 said:
I suppose when socialism fails a nation as it has in Venezuela, and the country continues to be ruled and controlled by die hard socialists who refuse to abandon the system, I guess their choice to mandate forced labor upon their citizens shouldn't come as too much of a surprize to many people... I know it doesn't surprize me.
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Totalitarian government systems with a strict socialist economy have an unsurprising tendenncy to fail....
 
Aristaeus said:
They are not labour camps. there are no camps. It is people with relevant skills being seconded by the government from their normal jobs to agricultural jobs for a limited period whilst still being paid. So for example, a car mechanic might have to spend a couple of months having to fix tractors instead of cars.

Far less worse than the US draft for Vietnam.
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They are forced labor.........period! If you are directed by a government as a civilian to do a job that you do not want to do..............it's called forced labor! If they send you to a certain place along with other forced labor workers....................it's called a camp!

And, I don't give 2 chits about you bringing up the draft either.
 
Grim17 said:
I suppose when socialism fails a nation as it has in Venezuela, and the country continues to be ruled and controlled by die hard socialists who refuse to abandon the system, I guess their choice to mandate forced labor upon their citizens shouldn't come as too much of a surprize to many people... I know it doesn't surprize me.



https://news.vice.com/article/venez...or-law-that-can-require-people-work-in-fields
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" In Spanish there is an old saying that goes something like this: “Tell me what you brag about, and I'll tell you what you lack." In today’s Venezuela, the folksy saying seems confirmed.

While the socialist government officials often rant about “equality,” “austerity” and “anti-imperialism,” the expensive watches Chavistas flaunt, along with their travels, tell a whole different story about what their priorities are after hours."
Venezuela's top officials sport luxury watches while the rest of country starves | Fox News Latino

And the leftists continue to defend them. They're are foolish as the Trumpkins.
 
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