[Secret Agent Man]

They only figure this out when republicans are president.

The eos for cog are socialistic and basically read like a soviet plan, and should be removed.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[Pontiac]

Unsound money, runaway printing presses, deficit spending, and government mismanagement of major national industries have all conspired to destroy Venezuela, and it’s heartbreaking to watch the country fall apart, leaving millions of innocent people without food or medical care. But perhaps more upsetting still is our own country’s refusal to learn the lessons of the socialism, even when we can see its destructive power with our own eyes.

Well those other countries had the wrong people doing it wrong. /S

And it’s just WRONG to let all those RICH people keep their money when there are so many POOR people that need so much. Those RICH people are just going to put their money in a bank and sit on it or they are going to spend it on another house or yacht. /S

I’ve heard these arguments so many times they just wring in my head. Socialist just hate the rich. And people can’t understand that no matter what rich people do with their money it creates jobs. If they spend it they are buying something that somebody made. If they put it in a bank someone will borrow it to buy something. If they invest it somebody is using it to start a business or expand a business.

The stupidity of socialism is so obvious to me I just don’t understand its appeal

[monkeypants]

This is a stupid article by someone with no understanding of economics or the depth of the depravity in Venezuela.

A total waste of Freepers time to bother reading.

Like most of us, he knows that socialism leads to failure, but there are many steps leading up to that.

We continue to be in strong deflationary mode. Hyperinflation is not anywhere near the top 100 issues to worry about now.

[nopardons]

Who the bleeding hell is the moron who wrote this twaddle?

Where was this story whilst Obama was pResident and causing Venezuela meltdowns all over THIS nation?

This from a place that calls itself "CONSERVATIVE" ?

And no, I didn't go to the site to read the whole thing, since I refuse to give it a bump.

[arthurus]

It takes a powerful dictator to stop socialism before the total collapse. But powerful dictators like the socialism when they are in power. There has been only one who stopped the descent into socialism then stepped down and it took the Pope telling the pious Catholic Pinochet that it was time to retire and turn the country back over to its voters. Chile has been increasingly prosperous since.

[Jack Hydrazine]

No. It WILL happen in the US. You can’t go $20 trillion in debt (not including unfunded liabilities which pushes it to $210 trillion) and expect happy days are here again.