Venezuela's inflation on track to top 1 million percent
As its people continue to go hungry, this part just says it all,
“Socialist President Nicolas Maduro often blames Venezuela's poor economy on an economic war that he says is being waged by the U.S. and Europe.”
“Socialist President Nicolas Maduro often blames Venezuela's poor economy on an economic war that he says is being waged by the U.S. and Europe.”
Predictable to those of us versed on socialism and the vast history of its attempts at implementation.
Respectfully,
OA
Indeed. The Utopian dream that ignores millennia of experience with the unchanging reality of human nature and its incompatibility with such nonsense.
Regards,
OA
It is shocking that the vast history of failed attempts to implement a Chavez type dream are not taught.
You don't even have to understand, just LOOK.
"Oh, but that can't happen here." is the usual idiotic response.
But why? Why do basically normal people just not want to know relevant historical experiences.
I have read and heard many times it is just that it was't implemented correctly or administered by the right people... Bilge.
Respectfully,
OA
Yes, the altruistic feelings towards intimate partners or family or close friends is completely unworkable when expanded out to the general public. Especially with forced participation.
Many churches or church based communities engage in wonderful charitable activities but they are voluntarily entered into.
I'm not new around here, although I have been rather busy and absent quite a bit the last year or so. Still I like to check in from time to time and when I don't much have time to get involved I still lurk once in a while just to remind myself there is still a place where reason is valued. I hope you find your time here of value.
Respectfully,
OA
Funny how socialists fail to recognize the connection between hard work, productivity, and fiscal health. When the oil facilities began to fall apart from lack of maintenance and people who knew how to keep things running, he kept blaming the no longer present Americans, and Maduro, who is possibly more ignorant than his predecessor, keeps banging the same drum. Socialists never accept blame for their own bad decisions.
That is the moral of the Atlas Shrugged story.
Soooooo, stop helping them.
Stop working for and trading with organizations that bang the drum of "We must help each other". The "must" being the most evil word in the sentence.
Most probably are bums but I advise you to be careful, for your own sake, with prejudgments.
I dont kick people when they are down, but its not my problem either. There are a lot of ways to get back up, and they should be figuring out how to do that sustainably, and not begging every day.
Most of them are on drugs, and that is definitely NOT my problem, nor one I wish to get in the middle of. If enough people died of drug use, perhaps it would discourage drug use among people who currently do not use drugs.
I would challenge you to find some beggars who stand for rational values and were licked to the curb. Not an easy task, at least in Laa Vegas
It is compatible with family human nature. That is what gives it its powerful appeal. "If only we acted more like a family - ya know - helping each other out."
I like what my father said when I was in senior year of high school. "Have you decided where you are going to live once you graduate? Truth is, I never thought about where I was going to live, but he was telling me its time I did. Probably the best thing he ever said to me.
I have heard something similar from other people also. We each have our own family experiences.
Not all families work as ideal models.
Even more interesting is that many who crave the socialist mantra seem to be from not so good families. Kinda goes against my thoughts of family being extended out to society as a basis for why people find socialism appealing.
Just a few short years ago, Venezuela was a model growth nation. And nothing has changed except hmmmmm, I wonder what . . .
Subsidies maybe, overtax the productive maybe, don't let prices adjust to reflect reality maybe, free health care maybe, everything the Bernie Sanders fans want and NEED maybe?
And people wonder why Trump calls the Fake News an Enemy of the state!
Maduro's statement is only half crazy.
I wish the US fedgov would stop the economic war that it is waging on Americans, not Venezuelans.
An imminent collapse affecting millions of people of a country a short distance away that portrays all of the Bernie Sanders "paradise" promises.
Why?
INFLATION GO ING TO 10,000.
Think of Zimbabe that managed 32 zeros , that's a hunderd nonillions! Now we are talking high finance!
Interesting that the woman who was interviewed and asked how to fix it referred to the model (socialism) not working because someone tampered with the price of oil which wasn't their fault and that the solution is for a different model (of socialism) to be tried. The followers never stop believing that after millions starving or being killed by their own government that it is still a more humanitarian way to live and they just need a new model for the leaders to use and it will work. That the followers cannot see reality and adjust to how they live reminds me of the promises of religion and their followers. It doesn't matter how badly it works out for the followers they keep following and asking the leaders for a new plan!