“Chavez did “incredible things for the 80 percent of the people that are very poor.”’
Right, now 98% are “very poor.” The remaining 2% are very rich because they are the elite government officials.
My SIL lived there for years. A friend of hers, who is a translator, works for a free meal on a job that my SIL would be several thousand dollars for.
The Left feeds on lies. They simply refuse to acknowledge Truth even when it stares them in the face. They just invent a fantasy and declare themselves the winner of any debate.
I see a nearby thread which says President Trump will be more involved in press relations. I think that’s probably good. He should just forcefully state truths and lambast the media when it lies. Over time, his position will grow stronger and stronger and theirs will just grow weaker.
The Truth wins eventually.
When I was in the Army in Panama (90s) Venezuela is where Panamanian doctors took their wives shopping on vacation.
That is easy. The capital doesn't belong the Capitalist, so they undermined the economy by stealing their money from it. The capitalist is superfluous to the economy, just not his money and infrastructure.
Honestly. That is how Communists think.
An irrational excess of misguided idealism leads to a head in the clouds fantasy.That’s what libtardism is.
We are trying to join them with the $15 minimum wage and push for a universal living wage.
The left does not live in reality.
Of course Chomsky has no trouble finding something to eat in Boston, with his very generous MIT salary, or pension, or both.
Actor Sean Penn met with Hugo Chavez several times and claimed Chavez did “incredible things for the 80 percent of the people that are very poor.”
Sean Penn has been in hiding ever since he Turned in El Chapo for the reward money.
You can't plunder if there's nothing to take.
Chumpsky ALERT!
That MIT employ’s this antisemitic professor is amazing. How is he any different than the guy who invented the Transistor and was a big racist Schokly - oh the transistor was probably the the most significant invention of all time and Noam theories on linguistics are interesting. Oh my bad MIT employed him too. MIT you bunch of racists bastards - keep making cool stuff.
It doesn’t surprise me that there are intellectually dishonest fools like Chomsky who continue to laud socialism and attack capitalism despite the fact that all of the available evidence refutes both efforts on his part. What I do find surprising is that anyone would listen to him or give him a platform.
Unfort., only if/when the People revolt (surprise), would there be any chance of retribution.
Any sort of heads-up would see the mass exodus of these (now rich) ‘Central Planer Soclialists’ before they can be brought to any sort of justice.
Just wonder how many need suffer/die before that event occurs?
“Socialism” is a misleading name for governmentism.“Socialists” systematically and cynically subvert a society, claiming that it is a simple matter for government make society better. See, for example, LBJ’s boast of a “Great Society.”
documents how easy it was for government officials with that attitude to make things dramatically worse.
- Losing Ground:
- American Social Policy, 1950-1980
- Charles Murray“Socialists” claim that “society” and “government” are, or at least should be, synonymous.
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.I, Pencil is an article written in 1958 by Leonard E. Read. The burden of the article is how diffuse are the inputs to make a simple item like a pencil. Of course a particular company - Eberhard Faber, in the example instance - made the pencil. But Mr. Eberhard and Mr. Faber did not simply speak the pencil into existence; the company has to have buildings housing machinery, and workers to operate the machines. But beyond that, the Eberhard Faber workers have to have food, shelter, and normal amenities - including those required by their families.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . . - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
And the same is true of the vendors who supply Eberhard Faber with the machinery they require, and all the obvious materials - wood, graphite, rubber, and the ferrule material and the enamel. All those vendors have their own equipment, workers, and supply chain. And in all cases the workers need food, shelter, and normal amenities. So although the pencil certainly does not exist without Eberhard Faber, society works together to make pencils - and everything else.
So, “you didn't build that? Somebody else made that happen?” Yes - but that “somebody else” was not government. The “somebody” was more like everybody - mostly very indirectly.
Government planning is merely interference in society’s subtle workings by people who have nowhere near the competence needed to make such large decisions and be responsible for them. It is nothing more than the irresponsible separation of responsibility from authority, in violation of the first principle of good management. Improvement in efficiency via government “planning” is a paper tiger.
Hey, let's be fair. Poverty is only extreme if *some* people experience it. If everyone (except for a handful of privileged elites) experiences poverty, then it is no longer "extreme"--it becomes normal.
Socialists do not claim Angola, Benin, Cambodia, and so on as successes. (Instead, they use Sweden.)