Socialism always starts as a “people’s movement,” with mindless and ignorant people being directed by elitist con men in the background, telling the foolish that by bringing down the “rich,” everyone will share in the abundance that socialism will bring. It is always a lie, and invariably almost all the people end up in poverty, with the exception of the top socialist leaders who live like kings. Fidel Castro is certainly one who has lived that life, and his protege, Hugo Chavez destroyed the Venezuelan economy pursuing the same socialist policies.
When the economy comes crashing down, it is necessary for the leadership to blame an outside source, and when Chavez was alive, he continually named the United States for all of the woes the country was suffering from. In fact, the oil rich country provides 9 percent of the U.S. gross oil imports, which must be a considerable sum of export income to the nation of 30 million people. As such, the U.S. provided a huge portion of the countries income, but Chavez resented that as well.
Venezuela has expropriated foreign and domestic businesses, which means that the people have little invested in the country and are becoming very unhappy with the leadership as it nosedives to complete economic ruin.
For more on the Venezuelan “people’s paradise,” see page 2:
Our military is the largest funded socialist program. How is socialism bad? This is straight up communism. Did FDR lead to communism here in the US? Not at all and he was also a socialist.
Telling the citizens the US might invade is brilliant.
If the US would invade then the government was right, and has an enemy to turn the people’s anger towards.
When the US does not invade the government will say they (the US) does not care about the people, and has an enemy to turn the people’s anger towards.
It’s straight out of the Dictators Guide to Controlling the Masses. Chapter seven I believe.
But we have always been told by the left that socialism is a utopia. Strange yet another example of the great failure of socialism.
Democratic socialism IS NOT communism. Maybe you people should look up what it actual is instead of regurgitating mass media lies. Democratic socialism still embraces capitalism. For all the nay sayers here are your answers if you care to gain some actual knowledge.
http://www.dsausa.org/what_is_democratic_socialism
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/8876476.html
We should invade them. I’m all for cheaper gasoline
No actually I said the exact oposite, you need to buff up on your reading comprehension.
Communists need a boogeyman!
Good article, but should I really care if they slaughter all the pheasants? Maybe the peasants could eat them?
That will be us soon
Then what exactly is Venezuela huh?