And also consider that Uncle Walter was with the NYT all of those years as well.
Posted on 05/18/2019 7:09:31 AM PDT by FtrPilot
Democratic socialism is working in Venezuela. It’s working to make everyone miserable and hungry. The sign in the photo reads: “Maduro is hunger.” The NY Times reports the economic decline Venezuelans are now experiencing is unsurpassed in the past 45 years outside of countries in the midst of war:
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
If Venezuela's people had the Right to keep and bear arms, Maduro would be removed from power.
And you can’t get rid of him because you don’t have guns or guts.
Another four years of Dummycrat rule with Hellary winning in 2016 and that would be us.
Surprised that the NYT notices the total failure of Socialism in Venezuela. They have fawned over Fidel Castro’s rape of Cuba for decades.
And also consider that Uncle Walter was with the NYT all of those years as well.
Venezuelans have the same natural rights as any Man—their government simply doesn’t recognize the fact.
But then, Duranty spent most of the time in Moscow, which meant he never knew about the the forced famine in many parts of the USSR that mav have starved 14 million people to death.
It IS a war ... against common sense. Against God. Against the lessons of history. Against human nature.
“Venezuelans have the same natural rights as any Man—their government simply doesn’t recognize the fact.”
A very cogent observation.
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Feel the Bern!
One interesting fact
I watched the demonstratis closely. I did not see any skinny people. My relatives that were alive and kicking during the Great Depression and WW II appeared lighter aand thinner than most of those demonstrating in Venezuela.
The same is true of the invading hoards
Hvving said that, I do not doubt the veracity of hunger in Venezuela
Saw this thread, first thought was “Where’s the NYT’s Walter Duranty on this!”
And it didn’t require anything but Communism!
In 2012, Venezuela brought a new gun law into effect which bans the commercial sale of firearms and ammunition.
Until then, anyone with a gun permit could buy arms from a private company.
Under the new law, only the army, police and certain groups like security companies will be able to buy arms from the state-owned weapons manufacturer and importer.
"The ban is the latest attempt by the government to improve security and cut crime."
Venezuela shows what happens when citizens are disarmed. We must always be vigilant.
California is quickly catching up to Venezuela on the slippery downslope. If California were not in a huge common market with the rest of the United States, it would have long ago been embargoed.
Attempted efforts to impose socialism anywhere end up either either a military dictatorship, or eternal civil unrest.
Sometimes both at once.
Some sumbitch always wants to be the head mfwic.
We need to send our SMART socialists down there to straighten things out!
That would be appropriate.
"The fundamental economic question to be answered in any society is "Who is to get how much of what?" The competing answers to that question are embodied in the ideological struggles in which we find ourselves engaged today.There really are only three ways to answer this fundamental question. Dr. F. A. Harper analyzed these in his book, Liberty: A Path To Its Recovery, as follows:
1. Each person may have whatever he can grab.Venezuelans need freedom: that's all they need in order to throw off the oppression, lack of individual opportunity and creativity, and the plenty that would result from that freedom. America stands as the greatest example of the ideas of liberty which has ever existed in the history of nations.2. Some person other than the one who produces the goods and services may decide who shall have the right of possession or use.
3. Each person may be allowed to have whatever he produces.
These three methods cover all the possibilities; there are no others.
The first is readily recognized as the law of the jungle; the second is that utilized by all authoritarian systems, while the third is the only method consistent with individual freedom.
"Who is to have how much of what?" That is the question. Communism has an answer, as does National Socialism and Fascism. The Fabians and Democratic Socialists think they have the answer. But when all these systems are analyzed, they come out the same, differing only in degree: The State will determine who is to get how much of what! This obviously means the economic questions will be answered by force and coercion.
But there is a better way: let the free market, willing exchange, profit and loss system determine what will be produced and in what quantity; who will produce it for what compensation; and who will receive it at what price.
There are really only two choices: to answer the economic questions by free choice — or by coercion!
(End of Quotation from "Freedom in a Nutshell," Kenneth Ryker.
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