Venezuela joins the queue of Socialism’s losers. When I read Paul Bremmer’s piece I remembered that I was in Lake Maracaibo on May 13, 1958:
Venezuelans should have thrown kisses instead of rocks when you look at what Socialists did to them all of these years later:
NOTE: Coincidentally, I was in Santos, Brazil on February 25, 1960 when a terrible tragedy struck during the Eisenhower years:
Ike was one of America’s greatest presidents, but his presidency was pockmarked with disasters like the U-2 Spy Plane, Earl Warren, William J. Brennan, Jr., Cuba, and Dein Bein Phu. None turned out well for the US.
Unfortunately for Ike, since the end of WW II Communism was on the march everywhere under the Soviet Union’s protection. To make matters worse, American voters combined with Communist successes proved that:
Finally, cannon fodder revolutionaries in every cause get a bullet in the head:
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while their leaders never miss a meal.
On this day in 1958, anti-American demonstrators pelt then-Vice President Richard Nixon’s limousine with rocks in Caracas, Venezuela.
In April 1958, seeking to improve U.S. relations with Latin American countries, President Dwight Eisenhower sent Nixon on a trip to South America. The journey ended up generating more ill will than good. In Peru and Ecuador, protestors accosted Nixon over America’s policy of giving military support to political coups in Central America. The Venezuelan government and the American embassy in Caracas had warned Eisenhower earlier not to send Nixon to Venezuela, where anti-American sentiment ran particularly high—he went anyway.
In April 1958, seeking to improve U.S. relations with Latin American countries, President Dwight Eisenhower sent Nixon on a trip to South America. The journey ended up generating more ill will than good. In Peru and Ecuador, protestors accosted Nixon over America’s policy of giving military support to political coups in Central America. The Venezuelan government and the American embassy in Caracas had warned Eisenhower earlier not to send Nixon to Venezuela, where anti-American sentiment ran particularly high—he went anyway.
1958
Nixon attacked by angry Venezuelans
Nixon attacked by angry Venezuelans - May 13, 1958 - HISTORY.com
Nixon attacked by angry Venezuelans
Nixon attacked by angry Venezuelans - May 13, 1958 - HISTORY.com
Venezuelans should have thrown kisses instead of rocks when you look at what Socialists did to them all of these years later:
Once upon a time, as Murray recalled, Venezuela had a huge middle class, property ownership was high and a large slice of the population held credit cards. But a series of economic crises in the 1980s and 1990s convinced many Venezuelans they had to change their country’s direction.
“They thought their answer was Chavez,” Murray said. “They thought it was socialism. They thought that their credit woes and other problems were going to be cured through socialism, and the result is what you have in Venezuela today, which is always the result of utopian systems or utopian thought, and that is no clean water, undependable electricity, gasoline shortages in one of the greatest oil-producing countries, food shortages – I could go on.”
“They thought their answer was Chavez,” Murray said. “They thought it was socialism. They thought that their credit woes and other problems were going to be cured through socialism, and the result is what you have in Venezuela today, which is always the result of utopian systems or utopian thought, and that is no clean water, undependable electricity, gasoline shortages in one of the greatest oil-producing countries, food shortages – I could go on.”
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He pointed to the former Soviet Union as an example. When a famine hit the country, the communist economy couldn’t adjust to the change because it was no longer operating according to the principle of supply and demand. Massive food shortages hit the USSR, just as shortages of food, water, medicine and electricity have slammed Venezuela. And the socialist “experts” have been unable to cope with the crises that have developed.
“This is why massive changes to the way government interacts with society are bad ideas,” Fitch insisted. “Once you go so far there is no going back. Experts try to refashion society quickly according to their ideas, and theories and socialism gives them the power to do so. [Here comes Sanders and Clinton.] Unfortunately, when things go wrong they cannot formulate a way out of the downward spiral.”
“This is why massive changes to the way government interacts with society are bad ideas,” Fitch insisted. “Once you go so far there is no going back. Experts try to refashion society quickly according to their ideas, and theories and socialism gives them the power to do so. [Here comes Sanders and Clinton.] Unfortunately, when things go wrong they cannot formulate a way out of the downward spiral.”
Venezuela's socialist utopia ends up in the toilet
Posted By Paul Bremmer On 04/23/2016 @ 6:53 pm
Venezuela’s socialist utopia ends up in the toilet
Posted By Paul Bremmer On 04/23/2016 @ 6:53 pm
Venezuela’s socialist utopia ends up in the toilet
NOTE: Coincidentally, I was in Santos, Brazil on February 25, 1960 when a terrible tragedy struck during the Eisenhower years:
Ike was one of America’s greatest presidents, but his presidency was pockmarked with disasters like the U-2 Spy Plane, Earl Warren, William J. Brennan, Jr., Cuba, and Dein Bein Phu. None turned out well for the US.
Unfortunately for Ike, since the end of WW II Communism was on the march everywhere under the Soviet Union’s protection. To make matters worse, American voters combined with Communist successes proved that:
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. H. L. Mencken
Finally, cannon fodder revolutionaries in every cause get a bullet in the head:
while their leaders never miss a meal.
