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Hey, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are you listening? Venezuelan leader ADMITS socialism has FAILED
The National Sentinel ^ | 8/1/18 | USA Features

Posted on 08/01/2018 5:16:08 AM PDT by SleeperCatcher

Life Lesson: Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a rising star in the increasingly far-Left Democratic Party, has been running from TV show to TV show proclaiming the joys of socialism.

During a recent appearance on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, she offered a rambling ‘defense’ of an economic model that revolves around government theft and redistribution — taking from those who are the most productive and giving to those who are the least productive.

In the end, as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once observed of the socialist economic model, you will always run out of other people’s money.

Ocasio-Cortez, a Boston University-trained economist, is just the latest young socialist who thinks she has the magic formula to finally make this never-before-successful economic model work.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenationalsentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aoc; miserablefailure; nicolasmaduro; ocasiocortez; socialism; venezuela
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To: PeteB570

“He does not admit socialism failed because of socialism. He blames it on outside forces”

Yeah the General Mills, Monsanto’s and American Soy Bean Farmers didn’t give their goods and services away for free.


21 posted on 08/01/2018 5:36:32 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Little Ray

It woulda worked if they had ample supplies of toilet paper.

It was over when they ran out....


22 posted on 08/01/2018 5:37:05 AM PDT by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Exactly. That or they’ll gush about how it works sooo well in Sweden.


23 posted on 08/01/2018 5:40:23 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: SleeperCatcher

Viva la revolución!


24 posted on 08/01/2018 5:40:43 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Gen.Blather
"I’d be tempted to send Crowley a donation if it appeared he was actually running for the office. Keeping O-C out of office would be about a pound of prevention."

No, I have faith in the American people. She won a primary with an extremely low turnout. Let the Dems have her. Let America see what the Dems really believe. I want to see her elected. At some point, if she aspires to higher office she will have to debate someone and not go on Comedy Central and get fawning media coverage. When she gets called out on her crap, America will see her for the fraud she is (like, oh my god!!!). Remember, Obama hid his socialism well, she's laying it out there for all to see.

Like I said at the beginning of the post, I have faith in the American people
25 posted on 08/01/2018 5:40:52 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: SleeperCatcher

I doubt that she can hear past the sound of her teeth.


26 posted on 08/01/2018 5:41:29 AM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: DAC21

Oil production also.

Top production was 3.2 mb’s in 2008. Down to 1.8 mb’s now.

He’s going to fix things by doubling the high production of 2008?

Good luck with that!


27 posted on 08/01/2018 5:41:57 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: SleeperCatcher

Doesn’t matter that it’s failed - AGAIN! As they have done in the past and will continue to do, progressives/socialists/communists or whatever term they dream up tomorrow, will continue to claim that it’s not that socialism is a bad idea, the wrong people have been implementing it. Give geniuses like Bernie, Ocasio-Kotex, Lizzie Warren, etc., a crack at it and it’ll be heaven on earth...


28 posted on 08/01/2018 5:44:00 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: SleeperCatcher

No, her professors told her they just hadn’t had the right person lead it yet...socialism is a great model if the right people do it...you see, that is her!

Yes, they are that arrogant...nothing you say will change their minds.


29 posted on 08/01/2018 5:45:04 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (17...#1776)
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To: cba123

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-china-went-from-communist-to-capitalist-2015-10

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/how-capitalist-is-china-today/article19348446.ece

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/11/07/362284553/capitalism-is-making-china-richer-but-not-democratic

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-02/can-china-s-communists-really-be-good-capitalists


30 posted on 08/01/2018 5:47:23 AM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: Gay State Conservative

Starvation’s one of the minor side effects of going full ‘commiesh*t’... Theres’ always the roundups and mass unmarked graves...


31 posted on 08/01/2018 5:50:10 AM PDT by GOPJ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-s1_nfs7f4 STOP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-IsingvI_I)
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To: SleeperCatcher

32 posted on 08/01/2018 5:50:23 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: PeteB570

Communism would work the kinks out if it elliminated all competing economic systems in the world.

Just as Islam would rule in peace if everyone would just submit to Sharia.


33 posted on 08/01/2018 5:51:20 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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To: COBOL2Java

She has one very irritating voice. I like the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard better.


34 posted on 08/01/2018 5:51:40 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: SleeperCatcher

35 posted on 08/01/2018 5:52:12 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: SleeperCatcher

Nikita Khruschev, “Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you”

Democrat/Socialist/Communist Liberalism’s goal is to destroy the country from the inside out.


36 posted on 08/01/2018 5:53:02 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: SleeperCatcher

None of them will ever listen. They all say that they will do it right this time.


37 posted on 08/01/2018 5:53:28 AM PDT by I want the USA back (This week's hysteria: Russia Probe again!)
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To: treetopsandroofs

“But the United States has the resources to do it successfully. And once Socialists control the U.S. we won’t be monkeywrenching Socialism in places like Venezuela.”

That will be their answer.


38 posted on 08/01/2018 5:55:42 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
How can you be an admitted socialist when you are teaching economics??

About 6 years ago, I found myself in a Minnesota college's bookstore intrigued by a little book on capitalism. There was a shelf sticker with the course number, along with the price. I wanted to buy it for my own reading, in addition to buying all the other books my daughter was buying for her classes.

I was concerned though, so I asked permission from the store manager: "Is it okay to buy this book? I'm not in the course, and in case you have just enough for the students taking it, I don't want you to be short". He looked at the title, and laughed - "No problem whatsoever, please buy it".

In other words, socialism goes with the college territory.

39 posted on 08/01/2018 6:00:54 AM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: SleeperCatcher

40 posted on 08/01/2018 6:03:59 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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