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:
Big write up in the paper this morning. I hope everyone reads this and remember it in the years to come.
That’s a lie. The democommies are funneling all money to our enemies, their pockets, and to the elite!
Voting is rigged and marxists never give up power thru elections!
Greed. After deregulation.
Doug Smith if we WANTED to, there would be no VC or NVA left. Don’t pretend what we did in Vietnam was actual warfare.
We bought lost and lots of expensive weapons and made certain people very wealthy while we lost 55,000 lives.
Andy Vargas, where do you get your knowledge from ? Fortune cookies?
There is no “too much capitalism”. When we were a capitalist country for our first 160 years or so (not the “corporatist/social wannabe” path we’ve been on the last 60) no other nation was close to our economic strength. Unfortunately, politicians have worked to connect economic strength to any negative issues or “social injustice” rather than using that strength to correct those problems. It’s always easier to divide for power than actually solve the issues.
Feel the Bern?
William Cox, take the foil get off.
They wish the US would invade. Atleast they would have food. Where do they think all that oil money goes. Because it’s sure not the people.