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:
Feel the “Bern” !!!!!!!!!!!
But i thought socialism was a good thing at least thats what bernie says . what a moron
Wake up America, its headed our way
This plague is being brought to us by Obama and his Liberal followers, he has opened the gates of hell, allowing millions of illegals, refugees and immigrants into our Nation, while we suffer under a $20 trillion dollars debt, as this plague runs it course, he is sitting back and watching his work of destroying America work, while he talks about the next phase of destruction, the Transgenders phobia plague to follow the mass exodus of Muslims into our society, while Russia, China, N. Korea, and many other Nations just watch in the destruction of what our Founding fathers built for us, while this generation allows the Nation to go into Hyperinflation and complete into collapse.
Well we’ll be sending money to another country that hates our guts
Maybe Sean Penn and some of his Hollywood buddies could hold a benifit
Socialism is such a failure – as it always has been since its inception . A shame that Venezuela didn’t heed this fact . Here we have a generation that hasn’t lived long enough to have experienced it , seen it nor studied it in our USA schools . It’s a spiritual law – you will reap what you sow – true in past and present .
this is what Barnie and Killary will do for us………………….
Bernie take note this . Is yourb plan for America if electef
I am totally lost for words……TOTALLY!!! For i have been following for every regarding all of this and iam so so fed up over the whole rotten unfairness of Obama and his evil doings!!!! I feel no one really cares or is even listening to us at this point of the game!!! What one earth are we to do and where is it going to end!!!