Posted on 05/19/2018 8:55:53 AM PDT by Leaning Right
The good news is no one is concerned about the lack of toilet paper anymore.
To the true believing Socialists this is paradise. Leveling to the lowest degree, of course not for the rulers.
“Why is Venezuelan fuel so expensive? I can’t ind any gas at a reasonable price.”
“It’s because we now have to buy foreign oil.”
“So where is the foreign oil you bought?”
“We sold it at a loss the Cuba.”
“Why are you doing this to us?”
“Because we are socialists, so we love you.”
“Will you love me long time?”
“Yes.”
“I was afraid of that.”
I guess socialism is Paradise, come to think of it.
Money is of no use, you are expected
to forever sing praises of the administration,
and it leads to nothing better.
That phrase reminded me of the dumba**** chanting from Mao's Red Book during the sixties. Or wearing Che t-shirts.
Your clues are to be found in the coverage of the 737 crash near Havana. Take a look at the images and think about what you see. A bunch of people standing around looking at the wreckage (or looking at the camera pointed in the general direction of the wreckage.) The shots from inside the terminal? Devoid of information technology that would be present in every airport in the US. Cuba is a poor nation that is especially backward, even given the size of its economy. Venezuela is a more advanced economy which is doing its best to be on par with Cuba.
Speaking of the crash - when the details emerge (and Lord knows they do not have the funding to have anything like an NTSB) it will indicate that it was an accident that could not happen here. A) no one would be flying 39 y.o. 737's here. Or if they were no one would be flying with them. B) the U.S. standards for pilot training and proficiency, and the level of instrumentation, navigation systems, air traffic controls, etc., are beyond the imagination of Cuban civilian air services today.
Bad political and economic organizing principles plot out to bad consequences, And there you go.
I imagine the US will end up there sooner or later.
Western Civ seems to be converging on totalitarianism.
Agreed. We have embarked down the path of consolidation and supreme rule.
From Albert J. Knock's book Our Enemy the State.
Taking the sum of the State's physical strength, with the force of powerful spiritual influences behind it, one asks again, what can be done against the State's progress in self-aggrandizement? Simply nothing. So far from encouraging any hopeful contemplation of the unattainable, the student of civilized man will offer no conclusion but that nothing can be done. He can regard the course of our civilization only as he would regard the course of a man in a rowboat on the lower reaches of the Niagara - as an instance of Nature's unconquerable intolerance of disorder, and in the end, an example of the penalty which she puts upon any attempt at interference with order. Our civilization may at the outset have taken its chances with the current of Statism either ignorantly or deliberately; it makes no difference. Nature cares nothing whatever about motive or intention; she cares only for order, and looks to see only that her repugnance to disorder shall be vindicated, and that her concern with the regular orderly sequences of things and actions shall be upheld in the outcome.
Venezuela has already solved its carbon footprint problem and thanks to socialism, is now tackling the obesity epidemic!
You provide a very good analysis of the two countries.
Perhaps you have some professional knowledge about aircraft, or accident recovery routines.
Ironic, isn’t it, that Cuba used to boast about having some of the world’s best doctors. I always thought that was propaganda. When in Cuba, one does not give an answer that makes the government look clueless. Not if you want to avoid becoming a political prisoner.
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