Posted on 06/01/2016 1:14:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Soviets also had special stores and living ares for the rulers. Come to think of it monarchies had the same kind of deal. The more change the more they stay the same. Or “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”.
“Coming to America if Queen Criminal Clintoon becomes our potus!”
Highly unlikely. Think Qaddhafi 2.0. The fat, squishy federal bureaucrats sucking on Hillary’s teat don’t have the firepower or training to take on the 101st Airborne or the 2ndMarDiv.
Glad to be French Basque Not many socialists.
Feel the Bern...
5.56mm
“If you have money there is champagne … “
If you have money. That’s the rub.
"...You might think so, but then how do you explain North Korea?..."
Bkmrk.
OMG! Is that his actual quote?
It wasn't too many decades ago that you could see those in the poorer parts of London.
Yep.
When Chelsea Clinton married the son of a very wealthy stock trader/fund manager, it was just another example of money marrying power. Those with money rarely run for office, like Trump, but their children often mingle and marry with those who have the political power.
The problem with socialism / communism is that it uses the force of the state to protect existing businesses and politically connected business, preventing new rich people from developing and, unfortunately, money concentrating with those with power through corruption/bribery because the state is so large that oversight is almost impossible and the opportunities for bribery are so rampant.
Thus when the state is large, money and power tend to coalesce in one elite. In an open, democratic society, there is economic churn and political churn that prevents such reinforcement of an elite “class”.
BTTT
Well, you can always become a paper-legger...
Class warfare?
This guy’s Twitter feed shows him the Maduro tool that he is.
There is a Spaniard in North Korea who is a mouth piece as well.
I don’t recognize this piece - could you enlighten me?
The rich will always do well.
It is the idiots that are poor and vote poorly for socialism that do poorly; poor decision making is why they vote for socialism in the first place.
Cover art for the Pink Floyd album, Animals. 1977 or so.
Lived in Venezuela in the days before Chavez and Maduro. It was good and it was corrupt. Oddly no more corrupt than our present Federal Government in Washington DC.
The corruption lead to the election of Chavez. The people were disgusted with the prior government and in their ignorance elected Chavez. He actually did win this election. All elections after that were a fraud. It was fixed.
When I lived in Venezuela I could go to the grocery store and buy anything I wanted. Those stores are today bare of goods.
This nation sits on the greatest oil reserves in the world. Its oil production declines month by month. Those that know how to produce this oil have left. They had valuable skills that could be utilized in other nations, they left.
Venezuela is now a failed nation state.
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