Promising the people things a government can never deliver is hardly a new tactic for politicians to employ, and it often works — for a while. But there will be a day of reckoning when the whole thing comes crashing down. Venezuela is experiencing that inevitable day, and it looks ugly with leading politicians blaming whomever and whatever is convenient for the people’s misery to draw attention away from their own failed policies.
As Margaret Thatcher noted, “The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other people’s money.” Or put more bluntly you cannot have a society where everyone tries to live off the wealth of everyone else.
Incentives to produce, to grow businesses and profit from one’s labors are essential to creating a healthy economy, one which provides jobs and produces goods and services that the population demands. Economic and political freedom are the keys to promoting a wealthy society, not the heavy hand of government and its efforts to redistribute wealth according to some arbitrary notion of fairness. Or more often, according to which power group has bought off the most politicians.
So Venezuela is reaping the harvest that the seeds of socialism always produce. Chavez may have been a more successful leader as he was a bit earlier on in the process of economic decay and possessed some degree of chrisma. Things aren’t working out so well for Nicolas Maduro who is the current president.
So we should not be surpised by the results we are seeing. What are those results?
I hope it does some good
Time to revolt in this country the people must take ot back socialism sucks and never works
Elect Hillary and we are going to be Venezuela.
Welcome to the Clinton USA 2020
Look at all of these democrats. This could be the US if we have eight years of the felon in office. Barrack Obamas would be proud to stand in front of these people and blame their failures on George Bush. Hillary would never talk to them, and Bernie Sanders would accuse the congress of passing his socialist laws when they should have known better.
funny…..in the US people want Socialist rule…..
Bendito seas pueblo de Israel, esta despertando venezuela
The liberals are trying to create a global government under socialist control. There will be world war if they continue this push!
Protests aren’t gonna do it. Gonna take some violence i’m afraid…
This is coming to America if you elect Hillary!