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:
obama hasn’t given anything to anyone..he has however as president taken 3 or 4 million dollars in salary from the good people of the Republic of the United States of America and will continue to receive a yearly pension of $400,000 +/- .
What say you bernie
Retarded.
If people can get together to start a second Revolution, why not use that unity to force better universal health care?
Good little sheep. Make sure you continue the lies. These are people tired of their govt. What’s your malfunction that you’re so willing to swallow what they tell you?
We have idiots here in the US who would vote for a socialist in a heartbeat! Unbelievable!
Matthew Mccabe no one likes pollution but it is unrelated to capitalism, growth, or economics in general except wealth countries have more resources to clean up after themselves. China is certainly not capitalist.
They hope we invade….any ever see the movie the mouse that roared ?
What is the difference between the Venezuelan economy clasping and what Barack Obama is doing to the U.S. economy with exploding the national debt. He is using the Cloward and Pivens economic program which is part the Liberal agenda. Nothing at all different.
Of course, they want to collapse our economic system. I n that way they can have a government takeover. Look up Cloward and Pivens.