tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post3769584851245450627..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Children Dying of Hunger in Socialist Venezuela Robert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-86883351831610942392016-10-03T21:24:41.534-04:002016-10-03T21:24:41.534-04:00Communists have ruined country after country and ...Communists have ruined country after country and always figure out some way to blame the massacre on someone besides themselves. Venezuela is experiencing a slow-moving Ukrainian Famine as the Chavista idiots deny there is even a problem and wait for all their opposition to starve. The "paradise of the worker" is NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!!! RLEEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04825555024937741161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-26594235428183001552016-09-17T13:45:16.223-04:002016-09-17T13:45:16.223-04:00European socialism is much more tame in some ways....European socialism is much more tame in some ways. For instance, when Bernie Sanders was making scathing remarks about capitalism and said he wanted to be socialist like Denmark, their prime minister publicly disagreed, saying that Denmark isn't socialist. In a lot of respects he's right. They are socialist by our standards but they still rely on markets and don't vilify capitalismDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07011856643664793898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-8135974159575994602016-09-17T12:11:16.902-04:002016-09-17T12:11:16.902-04:00When did Europe move away from free markets? The 6...When did Europe move away from free markets? The 60s, 70s, 80s? Still 30 years ago. Greece turned into a basket case probably before Venezuela. I've heard Venezuela had a decent economy, albeit sorta socialist, corrupt and stratified in that peculiar South American way throughout the end of the 20th century. No kids starving, though. Even their state oil company PVDSA, was pretty well runAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-76099380509221568662016-09-17T11:52:02.401-04:002016-09-17T11:52:02.401-04:00Europe is the story of successful free markets aft...Europe is the story of successful free markets after WW2. They grew very rich very fast trading with us. There is a lot more space between where they are now and starving children bad. Venezuela never grew rich with free markets and trade, the party grew rich on high price oil and got the people hooked on govt hand outs. They never had the rich nest egg to whittle away at, once the oil price theageofnowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16684732649465149601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-5741481193877201662016-09-17T10:39:07.194-04:002016-09-17T10:39:07.194-04:00Tragic. Yet, somehow, I think that Venezuela is b...Tragic. Yet, somehow, I think that Venezuela is being punished by the empire for (in a wildly misguided and self-destructive way, economically) asserting its sovereignty. I imagine that if the regime would "play ball" with the globalist oligarchs, particularly the energy branch, the US Fed would secretly be "taking care" of any problems with respect to this situation. I Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com