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:
It’s funny because we already have socialism in America.
No, I am not. Socialism is for the greater good not greasing the pockets of the the large companies that hire lobbyists with $300 Gucci loafers.
Socialism isn’t what destroyed their economy. They were paying their debt with oil, as oil prices dropped, they couldn’t repay their debt that they accrued before they were socialist. Please do research before you blindly watch your propaganda.
It would be better to let smalls cells odlf radical discenters fester and stew into a full blown insurgency. Modern armies, as evidenced by our escapades in iraq and A-stan, are terrible at fighting a countrr insurgency. Factor in the collateral damage on anerican soil caused by an unhealthy over-reliance on CAS, and it would not take long for the people to side with the guerillas.
Obama will send them a few billion
US invades with pizza delivery to feed the masses
Keep voting democrat and we’ll be next. With $20. trillion in debt we might not be too far away from this.
To whomever wrote this:
Socialism starts with a BLAH BLAH BLAH YOU KNOW NOTHING TWIT.
Tell me.. What form of govt does north Korea have?
Montie Barrow is clueless, don’t waste your time on him. Arguing with a dumbass only brings you down to their level.
If you keep the stupid, lazy and useless sated with a few shiny baubles( freebies the middle class pay for and given to the aforementioned ) they will be loyal to a fault, and this is what the powers that be want.