Posted on 01/28/2019 7:39:43 AM PST by Candor7
You are on a roll today. Good.
We won't -- Venezuela will.
It would be very good to teach the Russians and Chinese that lending money to failing socialist countries in the Americas is a very bad idea.
One of the features of most revolutions is that they repudiate the debt of the previous regime. Don't pretend that the Russians and Chinese didn't know this.
Here’s the problem:
Democracy doesn’t care about isms. Capitalism or Socialism — both derive from money, a substance the Federal Reserve creates from thin air by whim. Yes, pure whimsy.
Do you really want to undo Democracy because of a philosophy based on a substance created by whim?
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