Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
There is a rumor going around that people under socialism faced such severe food shortages that they were forced to break into zoos and eat the animals. Unfortunately, this is a fact. Reports were circulating in Venezuela of people consuming zoo animals around 2016 and 2017. The animals that remained in these zoos starved to death or ate one another. The people were in such dire conditions that they were forced to consume dogs, cats, decaying meat, and anything else they could find.
Hugo Chávez is celebrated as this social justice warrior for eliminating capitalism in the 2000s. Socialism does not work because the system eventually runs out of other people’s money, as Margaret Thatcher once proclaimed. We only need to look at recent history to see the severe consequences of switching to this system. Venezuela first reported that they had a “nutritional emergency” in February 2016. President Nicolás Maduro also declared an “economic emergency” in January of the same year, providing him the power to rule by decree. Inflation was running at 141.5%, according to Venezuelan authorities, but the IMF believed the figure reached 270% in 2015 and had the potential to reach 500% by the end of 2016.
Similar to how central banks and Treasury Secretaries downplay inflation today, the talking heads denied anything was wrong. The socialists claimed that acknowledging the food shortages could lead to American intervention, and Maduro consistently blamed US sanctions for his nation’s failure. As reported by a Spanish newspaper, this is how the average person waiting for their food rations: “Five hours in line to buy a chicken; kicks, pushes, and blows of all kinds to be one of the fortunate ones to enter the supermarket and get away with a bag of flour or rice, basic goods that Venezuela does not have available to everyone, unfortunately.”
Maduro told the people to grow their own food and gloated that he too was producing his own eggs and produce. The government owned the grocers and the food production companies, and stepped in numerous times to shut down any intervention by the private sector. Politicians take no responsibility for the suffering endured under their policies, and this is precisely what a portion of the West is fighting to implement today.
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That’s only ’cause they don’t have the right president.
Signed,
Bernie Bros.
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“Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export…. Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea — in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders. ”
― Thomas Sowell
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.” ― Thomas Sowell, The Thomas Sowell Reader
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/17015721-the-thomas-sowell-reader
“The next time you see a bum leaving drug needles in a park where children play or urinating in the street, you are seeing your tax dollars at work and the end result of the vision of the anointed.” ― Thomas Sowell
. . . but keep voting.
Saint Thomas
Still don’t understand how he isn’t the foremost hero of the world, he gets far too little respect, but he speaks the truth, and no one in power likes truth.
It’d be nice if every black kid in America, and kids of divorced and single white libtard moms, would be exposed to his work, as well as to his deceased colleague and friend, Walter Williams. Add Ben Carson. And Derrick Wilburn:
(Skip to a half-minute in.)
Sowell, for his whole career: “Just the facts, ma’am.”
Anon,thanks for mentioning the late Walter Williams,I e-mailed him once with a story as felt I owed him one for all the great writing he had done,he e-mailed me back with a thanks and cheers!
I will save that e-mail forever!
Look whats coming to town.
gab.com/timeline/videos
At least they’re masking . . .
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“Where are the White Women?”
That’s what these invaders are trying to find out … and they will … ASAP …
At university studying for worthless degrees and racking up 100K plus.That debt worries them not at all. The GOVERNMENT or some simp will pay it off.
Well thank God they are all coming here to collapse the USSA! Good times.
Whats the difference between capitalism and communism/socialism?
In capitalism, things need to be nailed down (or they will be stolen.) UNder communism/socialism, things need to be welded.
Under socialism and communism, things to steal aren’t even produced.
The more capitalism and communism compete the more alike they become
Maybe the Venezuela / Guyana issue will make the US return to what it does best, the military and financial rape of central and south america….at least the US can still bully and destroy piss poor countries depleted by years of communist rule by an itinerant bus driver, might be all they have left they can do well (or almost well)
HOW TO TRANSACT WHEN THE BANKS COLLAPSE
Good overall discussion with a lot of “The Great Taking” insights….
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Naomi Wolf realizes that whatever may have been imperfect about capitalism, no other system has ever benefited women as much:
Socialism is destructive because it’s too open but national socialism is another matter altogether. Do you actually think 20th century Germans were stupid? We certainly do not want the unchecked, monopoly capitalism that has given the entire system to jew/jesuit billionaires who have run the nation into the ground.
Nations must either trade with other nations, or invade them and steal what’s needed.
Right. The cure for monopoly capitalism is government monopoly capitalism.
Who does this asshole think he is fooling. If you do not think the US is not 100% socialist, then you are a complete idiot.
Yet no one thought that killing the communists was a good idea.