Socialism is lauded in United States universities as the answer to economic inequality that will create a workers paradise. Bernie Sanders is also promising to tax the millionaires and the billionaires to make them share their wealth and pay much higher taxes so that poverty will be eliminated. No one can point to an example where socialism has improved an economy or actually worked. Examples where it has failed are abundant and tragic. The usual result of a socialist takeover is the destruction of business, a contraction in the economy, the impoverishment of the majority of the people, and the rise and enrichment of a ruling elite. And yet our university professors cannot seem to see and understand the damage that socialism inevitably brings.
Perhaps if they would look south to Venezuela, they would see a clear example of what typically goes wrong when a political leader takes a country to socialism. Venezuela is awash in oil, and in fact was the first member of OPEC. The country actually has more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. That is one factor that led to their downfall. Hugo Chavez, long time president of Venezuela and protege of the Cubans, used oil to pander to the poor with free breakfast, and to line the pockets of he and his cronies. It buffered the damage done when he threw out foreign investors and expropriated their property and factories. It paid for imports when the actual productivity of the country diminished. It paved the way to create a country now completely destitute with the fall in oil prices. But you can be certain that the new socialist president, Nicolas Maduro and his cronies are still living well, even as the rest of the country starves. It is the way with socialism, everyone equal, everyone in poverty except for the chosen few at the top. The academics should get out of the classroom and look at Venezuela, at what they are preaching does to a country like Venezuela.
See some of the shocking effects of socialism in Venezuela, page 2:
Total socialism is not what Bernie proposes or desires. In this country we have several socialistic programs in use as of now. These programs originated under the presidency of FDR. The social security system would still be a viable program had it not been for Bush, Obama and the congress robbing the people’s money from this program.
The problem with socialism is that they run out of other people’s money after siphoning all of it off and it is a virus that leads to catastrophic disaster and the fallout and consequences are always way too dire and that the evidence that socialism is a virus is incontrovertible
TAKE A GOOD LOOK
IS THIS THE FUTURE OF AMERICA ??
Cheveze was given cancer so this could happen
Send them to Mexico. We already donated there
This is the liberal democrats program for the USA
And where is Bernie? Not here he is eating at a nice restaurant in a nice city. Its everyone else that has to do this.
$170.00 for a hamburger? I’D SAY!
Doesn’t matter how hard you try to spread the word and wake people up to the reality of what’s really going on in the world and our country its self.. people are just plain fucking idiots and refuse to believe what is right in front of their eyes! You could have all the facts in the world to support your conclusions and they would still tell you that your are crazy and that$#%&!@*could never happen to us.. FFS .. That’s exactly why it IS coming to america!! Lord help us all!!! #SMFH