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| Banandangees | Jun 11 2018, 09:32 PM Post #1 |
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Venezuela’s Long Road to Ruin Few countries have provided such a perfect example of socialist policies in practice. (Picture shown of a mother and her two children looking for food in garbage containers in the municipality of San Francisco, Venezuela, June 7.) Word from Caracas is that locals have taken to scouring city streets for plastic garbage bags full of rubbish and, when they find them, emptying the contents so that they can resell the bags. This sounds absurd, but it is believable in a country where extreme poverty has spread like the plague. Human capital is fleeing. Oil production is plummeting, and the state-owned oil company is in default. The garbage bag, imported with dollars, is a thing of value. If anything was more predictable than the mess created by Hugo Chávez’s Marxist Bolivarian Revolution, it is the pathetic effort by socialists to deny responsibility. The Socialist Party of Great Britain tweeted recently that Venezuela’s problem is that socialism has yet to be tried. It blamed the crisis on “a profit-driven capitalist economy under leftist state-control.” Even more preposterous is the claim by some academics that economic liberalism in the 1980s spawned the socialism that has destroyed the country. Learning from history is impossible if the narrative is wrong. So let’s clear the record: By the time Chávez was elected, Venezuela already had 40 years of socialism (primarily socialistic policies) under its belt and precious little, if any, experience with free markets.................... -------------------------- Like the "Socialist Party of Great Britain, liberals will of the world will deny the facts of destructions... to continue propagating what has always shown in the past to end in destruction or to an increased poverty condition. When you run out of other people's money, and the government doesn't have the funds to provide, you get Venezuela. Many nations are headed toward the socialistic policy path of destruction or are trying to. That's what you get when you believe the liberal, political progagandists. "FREE!" We will give you FREE education, FREE healthcare, FREE food, FREE housing, "FREE, FREE, FREE, just vote for me." |
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| Brewster | Jun 11 2018, 09:38 PM Post #2 |
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Total Rubbish. Not one single solitary link to any real data to back up the claims. S.O.P. for a Murdoch owned Right Wing Rag. Edited by Brewster, Jun 11 2018, 09:42 PM.
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| Berton | Jun 11 2018, 09:59 PM Post #3 |
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Absolute truth. The Venezuelans nationalized the Oil industry back in the 1950s. They have had socialist policies ever since. |
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| Banandangees | Jun 11 2018, 11:42 PM Post #4 |
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Like the article reads: "If anything was more predictable than the mess created by Hugo Chávez’s Marxist Bolivarian Revolution, it is the pathetic effort by socialists to deny responsibility." Brew call the WSJ a Right Wing Rag, and his last several links were from CNN.
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| Berton | Jun 12 2018, 07:39 AM Post #5 |
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He likes to deny the facts too. |
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| Brewster | Jun 12 2018, 08:02 AM Post #6 |
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Hugo Chavez was a socialist in name only, a name he used to get rubles from the Russians. He was a flat out, unrepentant Dictator, and Venezuela was/still is a Dictatorship - the very last thing he ever wanted was the people to own industry, as in a true Socialist state. Only Right Wing Rags call Venezuela an example of true Socialism. In fact, it's a perfect example of a Dictatorship, similar to what Trump envies so much. And like all Dictatorships, it eventually failed. You think CNN is left wing? I guess compared to the sites you visit, it is... After all, it tells the truth, often complete with links, a very leftist idea. Edited by Brewster, Jun 12 2018, 08:09 AM.
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| Berton | Jun 12 2018, 08:13 AM Post #7 |
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Venezuela was socialist long before Chavez. He was the logical endpoint of all socialist governments. |
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