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The Statist Sickness

Jun 21

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A great article from CNBC about the Chavez regime in Venezuela.  Never forget that Statism is a sickness, and socialism can never lead to prosperity.

From the article:

Mountains of rotting food found at a government warehouse, soaring prices and soldiers raiding wholesalers accused of hoarding: Food supply is the latest battle in President Hugo Chavez’s socialist revolution.

Venezuelan army soldiers swept through the working class, pro-Chavez neighborhood of Catia in Caracas last week, seizing 120 tons of rice along with coffee and powdered milk that officials said was to be sold above regulated prices.

“The battle for food is a matter of national security,” said a red-shirted official from the Food Ministry, resting his arm on a pallet laden with bags of coffee.

It is also the latest issue to divide the Latin American country where Chavez has nationalized a wide swathe of the economy, he says to reverse years of exploitation of the poor.

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Socialism? Really?

Jan 3

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Van Jones, the disgraced and discredited former Green Jobs Czar under President Obama, decided to ask rhetorically – in response to a question being asked to him about Marxism and the economy – “How’s that Capitalism working for you?”  He asked this question under the delusional belief that Capitalism is somehow the problem regarding the state of the economy.

Yesterday, Breitbart.com reported that Venezuela, under their massively inept leader President Hugo Chavez, will begin rationing electricity this year.  From the article:

The new regulations came into effect January 1, with businesses required to comply with reduced consumption limits and authorities warning of forced power cuts and rate hikes if the measures are not followed.

So, let me ask the question now.  How’s that Socialism working for you?

(You can answer me when the power comes back on in your neighborhood.  I’ll wait.)

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The perversion of Communism

Aug 3

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I can’t recall where I first heard this joke. I don’t think I created it, but every time I tell it, I’m told no one has head it before. So, while I don’t take credit for creating the joke, feel free to credit me with telling you the joke.

A farmer in the Soviet Union is plowing his field, and comes across a vase. After brushing the dust off of it, a genie appears.

“I am the Genie of the Vase, and I will grant you one wish!”

The farmer thinks for a second, and says, “I have three cows, but my neighbor across the way, he has seven cows.”

The Genie bellows, “Would you like me to give you 20 cows?”

“No,” the farmer replies, “I want you to kill four of my neighbor’s cows!”

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the perversion of Communism.

Here’s a more up-to-date tale. A video that explains what happens when you rely on government, and not free markets:

A perfectly good car is destroyed to gain a “free” $4500 from the US Government.  This, as it was said to me by a friend, is the perversion of Socialism.

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