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:
Haha there’s more of us than there is them, bring it
United we stand – divided we fall-
They want to do that here next
US better not do anything. They did that to themselves.
We are on our way. Time to stop this BS.
Thomas Brennan former “socialist” president Hugo Chavez’s daughter has a net worth of over 2 billion dollars. Call it whatever you want.
And those who don’t have anything to offer the state disappear first.
Correction, North America is the richest oil area in the world. We just don’t do anything with it.
Help the middle class??? 2 BILLION resettling “unaccompanied minors”!!!! That doesn’t include the legacy costs. How does that help the middle class?
Yes, we will all not agree with every single thing every single time. But, my point still stands. Some times you need to help the helpless. That would be children.