Socialism always starts as a “people’s movement,” with mindless and ignorant people being directed by elitist con men in the background, telling the foolish that by bringing down the “rich,” everyone will share in the abundance that socialism will bring. It is always a lie, and invariably almost all the people end up in poverty, with the exception of the top socialist leaders who live like kings. Fidel Castro is certainly one who has lived that life, and his protege, Hugo Chavez destroyed the Venezuelan economy pursuing the same socialist policies.
When the economy comes crashing down, it is necessary for the leadership to blame an outside source, and when Chavez was alive, he continually named the United States for all of the woes the country was suffering from. In fact, the oil rich country provides 9 percent of the U.S. gross oil imports, which must be a considerable sum of export income to the nation of 30 million people. As such, the U.S. provided a huge portion of the countries income, but Chavez resented that as well.
Venezuela has expropriated foreign and domestic businesses, which means that the people have little invested in the country and are becoming very unhappy with the leadership as it nosedives to complete economic ruin.
For more on the Venezuelan “people’s paradise,” see page 2:
You get what you pay for….begger be ware.
I will bet that Obama and the current administration are paying off our debt by taking in the massess from thos countries. I cannot imagine how we are able to make our debt payments when the GDP is negative…we can’t be offering services to other countries when they have their own….the finances don’t make sense. I have a sneaking suspicion that the books are cooked.
No$#%&!@*Matthew Mccabe. Anyone say different? I haven’t seen one fucking comment that people want to do that. Why don’t you go fight for your socialism with them. You want big government, meet big government.
Dewey Robinson, don’t guess. You’re horrible at it. Probably not the only thing in your life either.
Another moron. Thanks for the great meme, but just because you got suckered to believe that b******t doesn’t make it correct. What is national socialism then? You’ve heard of them, right?
Nice try Juan Flores. Just changing a few words makes it seem so much better. It’s the central control of the means of production, distribution and exchange of goods.
We don’t have capitalism. Crony capitalism at best. Thanks for not paying attention. Example A of how we got here – Kevin Bachman. Thank again asshat.
Right Kevin Bachman, you’re not worth the arguement. But I do have one question for ya – I’m willing to die to keep socialism out of this nation. Are you willing to die to bring it to this nation?
Then Democrat supporting Styer brothers are much higher on the donation list than the Koch brothers. Didn’t hear you mention him or where his money came from. I see who you support. Saw right through your slick little comment. Go$#%&!@*yourself asshat.
Nice try asshat. Socialism is socialism. Call it my little pony socialism, if you like, it’s still fucking socialism.