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:
Yeppers
“There are no tanks in Baghdad”, Baghdad Bob reports as M1 tanks are rolling through. I would assume that the citizenry of Venezuela is like “oh brother”. Can you feel the Bern?
Sounds like a test run for the US.. see how it goes there first before they pull the trigger here
Very much more, and all the characters in this play are on one team, this is true shock & Awe,……… but if you say it your friends and the Fed I’ll go after you.
They are a bunch of people peeing in the pool thinking they are the only ones! Then they finally realized , they are swimming in a toilet!
I think the communist country 90 miles away that he is referring to his cuba not venezuala, another shining example of how people prosper under a socialist economy.
Socialism keep it out of the USA it never works
The mortgage crisis that started this whole mess began when a Democrat congress passed legislation requiring lending institutions to loan money to people who had no business buying houses. The bankers knew exactly what was going to happen so they spread the risk around.
Our leaders are controlled by the 1% now stop bring brain washed.
All totalitarian govts tell their people that an attack from america is imminent.