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Venezuela Is Collapsing and the Left Is Afraid to Admit Why
CNSNEWS.COM ^ | 02 JUNE 2016 | DANIEL MITCHELL

Posted on 08/19/2016 6:03:42 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

I feel sorry for the Venezuelan people, but I’m perversely glad that the country is collapsing.

That’s because it’s nice to have proof that Margaret Thatcher was right when she famously warned that the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.

To be sure, we already had proof from Greece, France, the Soviet Union, Brazil, and many other places. But it’s still nice to have another piece of evidence that big government eventually produces very dire results.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: venezuela
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To: rbg81

“They always point to Sweden”

Sweden is not Socialists. It’s actually a free market economy mixed with a large welfare state. Works for a while until the funds dry up. And all the stats you hear regarding a great quality of life are exaggerated. Big problems with drug addictions there among other things.


41 posted on 08/19/2016 8:46:00 PM PDT by ScottfromNJ
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To: ScottfromNJ

Sweden is not Socialists. It’s actually a free market economy mixed with a large welfare state.


Facts don’t matter to these people—only perception. Facts, reason and logic don’t stand a chance against the lure of free stuff.


42 posted on 08/19/2016 9:06:28 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

It’s because we didn’t send them enough aid money, that’s why ... otherwise it would be fine.


43 posted on 08/19/2016 9:18:26 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Pollster1

There is no way a person should be glad at what is happening to the Venezuelan people

Is this the conservative version of ‘dont let a good crisis go to waste’

if a person is perversely glad, they should keep to themselves...especially if they want to be distinguished from liberals who are always glad when people suffer


44 posted on 08/19/2016 9:28:44 PM PDT by fingers_crossed
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To: Kudsman
Ok. 2 questions then.

Why do we continue to allow our schools to teach that it will?

Why is the US not imprisoning it's advocates?

Because it's still a free country and we don't arrest people for their opinions.

45 posted on 08/19/2016 10:32:30 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Hugin

What if a stated opinion is seditious? Is not a political ideology advocating Revolution and changing form of government against the law anymore? Or is the blood price only paid when the Lavoy Finicum’s of America rail against the incremental creep of big government?


46 posted on 08/19/2016 11:10:42 PM PDT by Kudsman (Hillary has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. DJTrump 6/22/16)
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To: lafroste

I will bet that Maduros bank account is doing well, wherever it is.


47 posted on 08/20/2016 4:40:17 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

we were given the right to keep and bear arms....... but will we use them?


48 posted on 08/20/2016 4:43:50 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... We Frack for Peace)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

It is worth noting that Marx never had a real job but bummed off of his friends and relatives pretty much his whole life.


49 posted on 08/20/2016 4:44:02 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

Except for the paychecks Karl Marx collected from Horace Greeley, Abraham Lincoln patron and Republican Party founder. Greeley published Marx in America’s leading newspaper for years.


50 posted on 08/20/2016 4:53:56 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: ScottfromNJ

And it only worked in the first place because until very recently the entire dang nation was whiter than the cast of Leave it to Beaver. That part must’ve been nice. But recent Muslim infiltration - I mean immigration - blew that pillar out from under them real quick.

Oh yeah, and they have virtually no military presence in the world anywhere at all. Enough to possibly deter an invading force there at home and that’s it.


51 posted on 08/20/2016 7:07:17 AM PDT by Laser_Ray
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To: pieceofthepuzzle
Socialism is NOT about equality....

I love quoting myself:

The primary beneficiaries of a socialist program are the socialist politicians. The secondary are the bureaucracies, and tertiaries are the supposed recipients. Everything after is fluff.

52 posted on 08/20/2016 10:20:43 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Enforce the Law. Build the Wall.)
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To: Kudsman
What if a stated opinion is seditious? Is not a political ideology advocating Revolution and changing form of government against the law anymore?

No, not unless you act on it or actively plan to do so. It never has been. The communist party has never been outlawed. Beliefs and opinions, however wrong, are not crimes. Thank God. Remember the hysteria about "anti-government militias"? The left would love to have such laws on the books to use against their opponents.

53 posted on 08/20/2016 2:24:02 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: fingers_crossed
There is no way a person should be glad at what is happening to the Venezuelan people

We disagree. When my father had cancer, I was glad when he found out what was wrong and went in for surgery and chemo. The cancer was bad news, but recognizing it and getting rid of it was a good thing given that the cancer was there - a nightmare that was better than waiting even longer before addressing the problem. With Venezuela's socialism, the problem was also already there and the misery was inevitable. The longer the fix is delayed, the worse it will be, so going through the economic crisis now, miserable as that is, will be better than the alternative.

54 posted on 08/20/2016 3:38:06 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Hugin

Oh I’d say the socialists have done a bit more than plan.


55 posted on 08/21/2016 9:36:45 AM PDT by Kudsman (Hillary has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. DJTrump 6/22/16)
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