Venezuela isn't a warning.
It's a Goal!
Indeed.
Thirty plus years ago, I knew a few people from Venezuela who used to boast of their country’s wealth and super low gas prices.
Leftist freaks will never make the connection, because it disagrees with what they know to be “true” without question.
During the Carter years, one might have had to drive to six gas stations to fill up, given that each one had a gallon or dollar limit and factoring the fuel burned getting from one to the next.
I’m disappointed in human nature that there has not been a revolution already. How can people bear to suffer like that? I thought South Americans were more hot-blooded than that.
It would useful for the left to do a thought experiment. Imagine if our society’s industrial progress had not been hampered during the 1900s by socialism and regulation. Can you imagine how great things would be today? And imagine how we would be now if capitalism and liberty had not burst forth from the 1700s onwards. We would still be using bearskins to keep warm, eating from wooden bowls, and drinking bear to avoid tainted water.
Venezuela has it all. Great natural resources, especially sitting on tons of oil. The only reason this is their reality is socialism.