In Venezuela, the high price of oil has helped cover up the disaster of a centrally-planned economy, run by a corrupt strongman. But now that oil is low, the disaster of socialism has nothing to save it.
They’re so poor they don’t have the money to pay the printing presses to print money. There are rolling electricity black-outs in the country. The capital, Caracas, now has the highest murder rate in the world — crime, politics, revenge, whatever.
People are literally starving there, eating dogs and cats and pigeons. A mob burned a man alive over five dollars.
Of course, the ruling elites are doing just fine. Hugo Chavez’s daughter, Maria Gabriela Chavez, has a net worth of $4.2 billion, stolen from the country by her late father.
But — what about all the people in the west, in Hollywood, even in Canada, who have held Venezuela up a role model?
Do you think we could hear a word about it from Sean Penn or Michael Moore? Maybe Elizabeth May, or even Barack Obama…?
NEXT: An expert on Venezuela, Israel Ortega, says all that country’s problems began with socialism.
THEN: Dan Park is an artist from Malmo, Sweden, who I met on my trip to Europe. He joins me again because he's been arrested for his drawings. You won’t believe why.
FINALLY: Your letters to me — plus some hate mail from someone who I think is actually secretly my biggest fan.
Sweden – another former socialist paradise. As they sink further into socialism they sink further into becoming a police state.
Sooner or latter you have to pay the bills.
Randy Williams.
National socialism implies that only people of a particular cultural or ethnic background can make socialism work. Mr. Hilter thought that only Germans could pull it off for racist reasons. Mr Musseleum thought only Italians could pull it off for a mix of national and cultural reasons. I submit that Mr. Wilson thought that the US could pull it off because of a superior culture and work ethic. Debatable, I know, but look at how much the other two praised Prez Wilson and tried to emulate him.
For those of us who can’t imagine that, just look at countless past examples. Hats off to the Swedish police, who are normally wimps and should also tend to the hate spreading of Muslims in Sweden and would do well to monitor their mosques as well as this guy’s ‘art’ display.
As for Venezuela, I am a Spanish major and have many friends in and from Venezuela. In the past year alone, they have gone to basic living to near starving conditions NOW. The problem is the flights out of Venezuela are at catastrophic prices, IF you can even get a flight. I have offered my place to several of these people,but we cannot get them flights. It’s urgent there. Seeing clips of Barack Obama with Chavez and Maduros chills my bones. It’s what Obama was always about, what he should have been noted for in the beginning..ice cold socialism, blatant atheism, disregard for torture and human rights all for the higher socialist good of the state.
It is hard to believe how stupid our youth of today have been made. We’ve just lived 70 years of socialism/communism and have seen mounds of dead bodies, tales of the most evil tortures, all because socialism fails. And yet, the people,mostly young and obviously ill instructed in HISTORY and PHILOSOPHY, vote for Obama, Sanders, Trudeau—all with relentless socialist policies: elimination of tradition and culture, total control of population growth, disregard for torture and persecuted peoples, massive spending and self-pocket filling.. all in the name of caring, compassion.. kinda like ‘art’.
Socialism is an evil..id say ‘diabolic’ evil, a word I don’t use lightly. It replaces the real God and hoodwinks populations, abuses and exploits them, promises a new Paradise which they know for sure is a lie…they have plans! It is the same old thing, yet we keep voting for it. And noteworthy, speaking of Obama, socialists notoriously attack their ‘own kind’ the most. .. Obama spending millions on Planned Parenthood to target black babies, seeing the plight of blacks descend more and more. He got 99% of the black vote in 2008! Amazing! Tha’ts what happens when educational systems offer ONLY or predominantly tech, sex and finance as curricula ,and teach no or skimpy history and philsophy. .. this makes the people very easy to ‘suck in’. Indeed, a people without solid training in philosphy and history are miseducated and vulnerable. We see that all around us! .. Sanders and Trudy voters!.. check their transcripts and report cards!.. no Aristotle, Plato, Wells, Aquinas, Maimonedes, etc, there!!! So they fall for all the ‘social crap’ the media and governments throw at them. They feel so smart but can’t see through a single error. We used to call it ‘conscience formation’. The late great Dr.Viktor Frankl once wrote: “My greatest fear today is that our youth don’t even know the Ten Commandments”. Theses have been writen on that!
Finally, as for Sweden, what is happening to them, it must be said, if one wants to be honest, it is 100% their own fault. They were among the first way back in the 20’s to accept artificial birth control, then abortion (also birth control) and therefore to manipulate their people and population to what they have now.. a need for immigrants. Their governments (Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Germany and Holland too) aren’t bringing the immigrants in because they care about persecution in the home country. All of these insane governments could rightly make the case, I’m afraid to say, “look, we have no people, we have aborted and contracepted ourselves nearly out of existence, we don’t have not enough skilled workers” so we have to let them in. The general population would hardly have a counter-argument.
So the Catholic Church is not so archaic and silly after all! It’s been a battle of population, respect for life, after all! Those who respect it the most WIN! Like Poland, the Philippines. The latter have their problems, but they face no threat of extinction, they are happy thriving peoples with a huge youth population; they have an endless future, they have all their traditions in tact, they have the lowest suicided in the world. They have life.
As for Canada, if we don’t really respect life more, if we don’t stop playing the semantic games (compassion, diversity, inclusiveness, service to women.. all fake words for ‘population control’), we too can foresee that we are screwing ourselves. That’s what socialism does.. it causes suicide of nations. And its main weapon is population control read: birth control and abortion. .. hardly just ONE issue politics! It isn’t even allowed to be discussed in Canada. That was Harper’s biggest mistake, by the way. .. he too was totally pro-abortion. When we have that situation, when we vote for people like him, we can only expect the next worse and we got him/them. When the MP for Kitchener wanted to introduce a bill to investigate the humanity of the unborn, Harper’s biggest mistake was not on economics .. it was his refusal to allow this key and essential finding and to make it public.
May, Nutley, Obama and of course our little Justin grew up on a diet of this dangerous nonsense !
Chauvez extorted Billions out of the govt coffers . . . got sick, and went for some of that “Michael Moore” Cuban Healthcare . . . which killed him quite quickly.
Socialism is a malignant disease that destroys nations . . . only the weak minded like Hollyweird actors subscribe to this insanity !
Sweden is well down this Socialist Dhimmicrap road . . . will Canada be following in their footsteps?
The goal of socialism is to become a one party state. The ultimate goal of socialism is the become a transnational global one party state.
Venezuela began its death spiral as a failed state the day it rejected democratic political pluralism fof single party dictatorship. When government loses opposing opinion/constructive criticism and makes policy in a vacuum, there is nothing to stop disasterous policies from eroding a nation.
We need to keep this in mind as our transnational socialist federal government attemps to install a single party state through ballot rigging.
There has never been a socialist regime in the history of the planet that has not destroyed or is in the process of destroying the nation in which the socialism disease resides.
Socialism is precisely where the Trudeau Liberals and all the provincial NDP government are deliberately taking Canada.
There are two classes of people in any socialists system, 1) the elite who live in the lap of luxury at the expense of 2) the common people who live in poverty. Yup, socialism make all the peasants equal … all equally poor.
I can understand why the elite in Canada want a socialist government because they will be the socialist elite that live in the lap of luxury and plenty.
What I cannot understand is why the rest, who obviously will never be part of the elite, so desperately desire a socialist government. They are, in effect, desiring to be desperately poor.
A free market economy would have done a much better job, and in this way pro-Chavez arguments are disingenuous. Chavez didn’t do a good job bolstering Venezuala’s economy, he held it back from becoming a sustainable economy. He squandered the opportunity to develop first world infrastructure during the boom. The economy was in shambles when he died, declining since the 2009 crash when it suffered a 2 year recession, longer than any other Latin American country despite it’s oil wealth, and is much worse now. He left a huge fiscal deficit, oversaw a diminished production capacity in almost everything, including oil—the Golden Goose of the country, along with rapidly increasing debt and currency devaluation. Not to mention the gross corruption under his leadership.
The apologists for Chavez are full of it. The current situation is a direct result of his policies.
With all the talk of the huge amounts of dogs in the humane society, I think it would be a good idea to send the dogs to Venezuela. It would cut down on the costs of the humane society, and feed the starving people of Venezuela.
“This is post Hugo Chavez Venezuela. Like him or hate him, he attacked corruption, nationalized the nation’s resources, and vastly improved the nations power grid.”
Lets go over these points
Chavez declares “electricity emergency” in Venezuela
From 2010
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-electricity-idUSTRE61801720100209
Corruption, Mismanagement, and Abuse of Power in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela
From 2006
http://www.cato.org/publications/development-policy-analysis/corruption-mismanagement-abuse-power-hugo-chavezs-venezuela
And yes he nationalized everything and the oil industry was always run by the Venezuelan government. Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. was created in the 70’s long before Chavez.
You’re a moron Marty
Which is why the coup had to happen.
I am sure that you can do that. The fact is Paul Hellyer a former Liberal MP who ran for the leadership races of the PCs and Liberals in the 70’s and 60’s respectfully did so to bring a Canadian nationalist platform.
I will agree with you Drew that state capitalism can occur under socialism and nationalism but both systems are entirely different. Socialism is union centric while nationalism is government focused to dictate tariffs and which industries are specialized. Both are statist but both like communism guarantee full employment. I do agree that nationalism even under Trump could be similar if he follows a purely protectionist platform.
Creed, land, or money/wealth. All frontiers are explored. No new land to conquer. That leaves creed and wealth.
So far it doesn’t seem to be creed :
Panama : latino Christians
Ukraine : mainly white Christians
Somalia : Black Muslims/local tribes.
Vietnam : Asian Buddhists (fought hardest too)
Iraq : Arab Muslims
No patterns by creed there. That leaves wealth…
You’re welcome.
Ezra is in bed with Big Oil, so by proxy this means he is actually in bed with OPEC and Saudi Arabia whether he wants to realize it or not.
Nations that are not are : Russia, China, Brazil, India, South Africa, and a growing list of other nation all aligning against OPEC and the World Bank/IMF. They actually signed a rival ‘world bank’ agreement called the NDB/BRICS agreement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS
This is our kingdom come folks. When those 5 nations replace the World Bank, we are in for it with the current retard leaders we keep voting for!
Media isn’t mentioning that one either…