Sep 06
Socialist Venezuela continues spiraling into misery and environmental devastation. Just 20 years ago, Venezuelans were the richest and healthiest people in Latin America. Then they voted for socialism. Government took over businesses and industries, took over health care and food distribution, and chased out capitalists. Now Venezuelans struggle for survival daily. Photos show them butchering …
Aug 24
Whenever government expands, people become impoverished, dependent, sick, weak, diseased, trapped, and less mobile in every sense. CBS Moneywatch has released a report indicating that “[a]lmost 8 out of 10 American workers say they live paycheck to paycheck.” Government taxes, regulations and central banking savagely punish savers, so most Americans save little or nothing. Studies …
Aug 09
Venezuelan economist Raefael Acevedo recently addressed the Mises Institute. See here. Between 1999 and 2017, said Acevedo, the Venezuelan minimum wage was raised 38 times: a 108,000 % increase. Yet “[a]nyone in Venezuela would be happy to eat out of American trashcans.”
Jul 23
The Chicago Public School District is $17 BILLION in debt. (That figure is greater than the annual State budgets of numerous entire states combined; Chicago’s “teachers” often retire as multimillionaires in a state that has experienced years of declining household incomes.) Years of corruption and government central planning have taken their toll. (And all measurements …
Jul 18
Many government lovers condemn and criticize the rightist regime that took over Chile in the 1970s. Naomi Klein’s book “The Shock Doctrine” begins with a (mostly false) story that Chile’s Pinochet adopted free-market policies and followed the guidance of free-market economist Milton Friedman. But while Chile under Pinochet was hardly the free-market model its enemies …
Jun 02
Wherever socialism takes hold, society spirals downward into poverty, dependence, sickness and weakness while elitists in government prosper. In modern Venezuela, the people dive through trash for food, eat pigeons, cats and dogs for food, and die in knife fights on the streets over dollar bills. Meanwhile the elitists and government officials in the socialist …
May 12
For a decade, government trusters have promoted a theme of apocalyptic hysteria about manmade global warming. This hysteria is aimed at convincing people to give governments even more power and control over them. But almost everything reported about warming or melting in the Arctic is fake. Here is an informative video from realclimatescience.com.
May 09
Every government ultimately comes for all money, all property, all freedom, and to kill all who resist. Just 20 years ago, Venezuelans were the wealthiest people in Latin American. They had a thriving business and investment sector. Then the people voted for socialism. Now, after dozens of Venezuelans have died in the streets while protesting …
Apr 20
In just 20 years, socialism and government central planning raped and robbed the people of Venezuela of their rights, their wealth and their dignity. During the early 1990s, Venezuelans were the wealthiest people in South America. Their market economy thrived and exported oil and other goods throughout the world. Then the people voted for socialism …
Apr 19
Socialism pollutes and degrades the environment; while capitalism tends to clean the environment. Look at East Germany versus West Germany. Or North Korea versus South Korea. Or look at California, with its massive regulations, taxation, central planning and “environmental” laws. 6 of America’s 10 most polluted cities are in California. See here.
