The socialist government of Nicolas Maduro is in trouble. That this is the case should surprise no one who has a grasp on economic history. Even countries with great national wealth will fail when government policies promote a socialist utopia (which cannot exist), as opposed to pro-growth, pro-freedom strageties.
And so it goes in Venezuela.
Opponents of President Nicolas Maduro flooded Venezuela’s capital on Thursday in one of the biggest mass protests against socialist rule for more than a decade.
Dressed in white and chanting “this government will fall,” hundreds of thousands rallied across Caracas to demand a recall referendum against Maduro and decry a deep economic crisis in the South American OPEC nation.
No surprises there. What fruits of socialism are the people of Venezuela experiencing? Just the usual.
Triple-digit inflation, a third year of recession, shortages of basics, and long lines at shops have exasperated many of Venezuela’s 30 million people.
Again, those results are no surprise, but are the typical results of socialist policies. As protests spread, the government is forced to crack down as it refuses to hold the plebiscite as allowed by the constitution.
Extra police and troops were positioned around Caracas, and there were roadblocks on most major routes into the capital from the provinces, with buses being blocked and traffic crawling.
“All they are interested in is staying in power,” said construction worker Luis Palacios, 59, from the poor Caracas neighborhood of Petare. “We want change, we are hungry.”
Ignorance of economic history brings untold suffering to people around the world. Socialism does not work because it is built on faulty premises and an erroneous view of human nature. People will learn that — either by studying history, or by personal experience as is the case with the hapless people of Venezuela.
Source: Reuters
An example that socialism does not work if you still not believe ask Bernie Sanders who took the money of Clinton foundation and bought a 600k house. I am pretty sure his comrades supporters could never buy a house at this price.
When Socialism gets the boot. there’ll be nothing to loot.
God be with them
OK people how many times must a country fall victim to proven disastrous governmental structures. The fantasy sold to the young and the ignorant work when there are more ignorant people in the population than intelligent and educated productive ones. When people are informed, educated, hard working, and focused on making their lives, community, state and nation better ….They are unlikely to believe or even be exposed to the propaganda and political control programming successfully controlling the population of fools. Common sense is uncommon but it is NOT complicated,,,,,,,,,everyone equal sharing resources and fruits of labor. Life is not fair, life is not easy and hard work, delayed gratification and sacrifices are necessary for success, but do not guarantee it. And everything looks better from a distance,,,,,do not think a persons life is easy just because from a distance it seems to be.
Coming to a neighborhood near you
Woke up, huh?
This is where hillary will take us
Hey Bernie what happened !!
A-Bout time they stood up for themselves! Let us HOPE that we don’t have to go thru what Venezuela did with Chavez!