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:
Wasn’t Bernie stating how great Venezuela was doing with their socialism like 5 months ago? I am glad we don’t have to worry bout him anymore…all of the countries he wanted to emulate either are failing or have 50%+ taxe rates.
then…it becomes a sh!tshow.
A failed state!
Get the government off the backs of business so they can grow!
David Randall Williams, don’t use a dictionary much do you? We can tell. My definition of socialism is directly from one. Try using it before the election. Fool.
Jacob Ray Case
Gregory Jacob, not one single time did Trump blame Mexico for anything. In fact, he said they were smart and did not blame them. He blamed this administration, and politicians in America. AND HE’S RIGHT!
JF Nowinski
AS IF your dictionary is the last word on everything, and YOU call SOMEONE ELSE, “fool”. You’re nowhere near as smart as you think you are.
TruthorFiction is almost comically bogus, hoping to play people who don’t remember before 2000. Socialism, capitalism, and so on are sliding scales in real life as opposed to an on-of switch. As for the invasion part, of course that is silly. Oh wait, Reagan invaded Grenada.
Danny Glover ,Sean Penn and the rest of Hugo’s Pals are so silent socialism doesn’t work anywhere anytime by anyone ….#Rot in Hell Chavez
No thanks