[raybbr]

I guess that would be “Zimbabwe, phase 2.” Once the currency is destroyed, and city folk can’t buy food, they will be given land to grow their own. I seem to remember that Rhodesia was the largest food-exporter in Africa before “land reform” took the productive land from white landowners to give it to people who had no clue how to raise anything. Now they can’t even feed themselves....

I guess all news stories from Africa are banned in Ven. They didn't learn anything from that return to tribal farming.

[cbkaty]

I guess all news stories from Africa are banned in Ven.

We get them here, yet our leaders still run towards socialism....like flies to a bug-zapper....

[nathanbedford]

It is either a question of them not learning from the evidence before their eyes or being willfully indifferent to the consequences of their ideology. Just a few days ago Chavez exhorted Obama to take America into socialism. Such advice coming from someone leading his own country into penury to a leader of the richest country on earth, is a presumption which can only come out of ideology.

There can be no doubt that Obama knows that these confiscations do not work yet he has committed the same sins here himself and now, by nationalizing healthcare, he is reaching out to control every seventh dollar spent in the American economy . The rest he will control through cap and trade if he can.

I cannot but believe that the human consequences of these actions are a matter of indifference to both men.