The Success of Socialism: In Venezuela,
Even the Soldiers Are Starving
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- The equality promised by socialists has turned into equal poverty; only a small minority live better than squalor, and that small minority is, of course, the people with guns.
it's funny yesterday @kafkanarchy84 was arguing that the situation in Venezuela was the fault of American sanctions.
so?
that might have something to do with it too.
venezula is a member of OPEC..
OPEC waged economic warfare on the US.
The US retaliated.
mess with the bull and get the HORNS.
I said the sanctions may play some role but the Saudis intentionally tanking the global oil prices to harm all other producers and being dependent on nationalized oil revenue was also important.
nationalized = socialism.
The Saudi's were only ONE member of OPEC.
I'd say Texas tanked the global oil prices by developing fracking.
the Saudi's were opposed to that.
hence the media 'push' against it.
the Saudis paid for it.
they hate competition.
there is no such thing as competition in a socialist state.
the state sets the prices.
I was saying the Saudis hate competition in the oil business.
they did.
they've recently undergone a change in management.
Socialism = shared poverty not shared wealth
socialism does not create wealth...it 'distributes' what it has confiscated.
and becomes more and more poor.
unto poverty and national breakup.
yet...like a virus
it finds a new host...and begins the cycle again.
Venezuela in the decade of the 90s had oil prices of around US $ 10 and never experienced this terrible situation of misery and hunger as it is lived today. The problem of Venezuela are the "socialists", who only want more power, more money and more poor people to have control over the people by means of alms and gifts.
Nice post