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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: Old Teufel Hunden

“Like I said at the beginning of the post, I have faith in the American people “

I used to have faith in the people. Then, they (we) elected Obama a second time. My faith is now bruised.


41 posted on 08/01/2018 6:04:23 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: ManHunter

Teaching Ephesians at the Slavic Baptist Institute, Khovel, Ukraine for about a week, a group of students approached me during break to ask, and the interpreter said, “Do the Americans not realize that Hilary is a communist?” I said, “Well, she is a socialist not a communist.” The interpreter smiled and told the students what I said. They all laughed out loud. “What’s funny Sasha?” He said, “They said a socialist is a communist who is not in power yet.”


42 posted on 08/01/2018 6:04:45 AM PDT by BDParrish (One representative for every 30,000 persons!)
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To: pepsionice
One of two things should happen: 1. Ocasio-Cortez should ask for her tuition money back because she really knows nothing about economics. 2. Boston University should be publicly embarrassed each time she stands up to speak because she is a total idiot on economics.

Both should happen.

43 posted on 08/01/2018 6:05:28 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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To: SleeperCatcher

“Ocasio-Cortez, a Boston University-trained economist”

This woman went to a university? It should be sued for malpractice for turning out an idiot like her.


44 posted on 08/01/2018 6:11:00 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: SleeperCatcher

It has not failed — it has worked EXACTLY as the elites who advocate it and run it want it to work.


45 posted on 08/01/2018 6:22:31 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: SharpRightTurn; SleeperCatcher
“Ocasio-Cortez, a Boston University-trained economist” This woman went to a university? It should be sued for malpractice for turning out an idiot like her. Obviously, she was an affirmative action student - all she needed to get good grades was a pulse...
46 posted on 08/01/2018 6:25:09 AM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson)
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To: BDParrish
"Well, she is a socialist not a communist."
"They said a socialist is a communist who is not in power yet"

They are right. I like to say that socialism is just the roadway, the destination is communism. Since the majority of the people will not voluntarily submit to socialism, it has to be done at the point of a gun. Hence, lie about it until you get into power and when you have all the levers of power, force it down the people's throats. Oh, and you have to end any and all democratic institutions since you have to stay in power to fully implement it.

The only people that end up liking it are the ones on the top of the food chain. The rest, let them eat cake.....
47 posted on 08/01/2018 6:28:26 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: SleeperCatcher

She’s not listening cuz she can’t hear anything else over the sound of how awesome she thinks she is. I’m sure her response will be that it just hasn’t been implemented properly and that it wasn’t real socialism much like any Marxist countries that butchered so many millions of people didn’t practice true Marxism


48 posted on 08/01/2018 6:32:10 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: SleeperCatcher

Send her to Venezula. See how she likes it there.


49 posted on 08/01/2018 6:32:17 AM PDT by Republicanprofessor
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To: SleeperCatcher
If I could ask Ms. Ocasio Cortez one question it would be this...... Please Ms. Ocasio Cortez, name me that one product invented and produced by socialist countries such as Venezuala, Cuba the Soviet Union et al... that we all couldn't live without?

A follow up might be, Do you drive a Yugo?
50 posted on 08/01/2018 6:35:50 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: SleeperCatcher

The Republicans need to bring him to the US to tell the whole country about this failure. Can you imagine him being invited to appear on CNN?


51 posted on 08/01/2018 6:58:04 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: SleeperCatcher
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52 posted on 08/01/2018 7:41:23 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: SleeperCatcher

I lived in Venezuela in the 73 and 74, working the drilling rigs in Lake Maracaibo. Venezuela had a thriving economy with oil half the price it is today and this is an inflation adjusted price.

A socialist, Marxist, dictatorship has destroyed and ruined that once nice nation.


53 posted on 08/01/2018 7:53:01 AM PDT by cpdiii (Cane Cutter, Deckhand,Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist: THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: SleeperCatcher

They don’t have “real socialism”


54 posted on 08/01/2018 8:19:16 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: SleeperCatcher
The problem with socialism is the "right" people haven't been ruling. Obviously, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her Democrat friends are the "right" people.

It should work swell here in the USA if they can just run the place. If there are a few rough spots, well, they can always apply the Che Guevara solution. They can fix pock marked walls later. It will help keep the proletariat gainfully employed. Everybody will be happy.

55 posted on 08/01/2018 8:29:40 AM PDT by Gritty (This is what the other side is all about. Hate and bullshit is their political platform.-DJ Trump Jr)
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To: pepsionice

I think that “O-C” is an indicator. A degree from BU should not be taken at face value. Check transcripts and grades before hiring a graduate of BU. Of course that is why Obama sealed all records. They revealed a hollow, shallow “man that never was.”


56 posted on 08/01/2018 8:47:13 AM PDT by BatGuano
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To: adorno

You assume that she is ignorant about the failures of Socialism? She isn’t. She is as much of true believer as she is a Bronx native. She is a liar trying to perpetuate a system that will afford her almost unlimited power over her fellow man. That is the purpose of socialism.


57 posted on 08/01/2018 9:41:53 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: Durus

You mention that she is after “unlimited power”, but in my post, I said this:

“But, socialism is not about helping the poor and the needy; it’s about control. Socialism eventually turns into communism, and deep in their hearts, all socialists are communists.”

In other words, it’s about control of the people, which amounts to the same as “unlimited power”.

Socialism is about promises in order to attain complete control of the people and the economy and the country, and to achieve that end, they inevitably need to turn to complete control: aka: communism.


58 posted on 08/01/2018 9:47:35 AM PDT by adorno
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To: BDParrish

That doesn’t surprise me in the least. I was a Russian linguist in the early part of my Army career and I heard the same kind of things from Russians and escapees from other Eastern European countries.

Later in my career, I taught counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations to US and foreign intelligence officers, including quite a few from Africa. One of them, “Zindoga” - an officer from Zimbabwe, and I became pretty good friends. He was at my quarters one evening after dinner when a news story came on about Nelson Mandela. “Z” looked at me and asked, “Tell me my friend, why are Americans so fond of Nelson Mandela? Don’t they realize he’s a communist?”


59 posted on 08/01/2018 11:03:55 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
The bad news for Venezualans is that the next stop is full-blown communism. This is how the Left always does this because the goal is the same - communism, not socialism. Socialism is just the pit stop on the way to communism.
60 posted on 08/02/2018 10:39:19 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (The U.S. Senate - where American freedom goes to die.)
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