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Ted Cruz Ping!
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Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!
This is the kind of statement one would expect
to hear from an American President.
What do we hear from the one we have?
Nothing.
The Venezuelan major league baseball players in this country might not ditch their Venezuelan citizenship if their home country stopped stripping them of their wealth and kidnapping their family members.
Ted Cruz is sounding more like President Reagan every day. He is a brilliant man with a clear vision who can communicate that vision to us...a very rare gift.
Venezuela—with its huge petroleum reserves—should be one of most prosperous countries in South America, period. But their dalliance with far-Left ideas has pretty much ruined that country—and Venezuela may be on the verge of civil war.
The biggest hindrance to Venezuela’s prosperity is “Old Europe disease”. Americans have a hard time grasping it, or rather, they see it as irrational, but many nations suffer from it.
In a nutshell, Old Europe disease is the inability to enjoy wealth and prosperity, unless you are surrounded by poverty and misery.
Compare two multi-billionaires, Bill Gates and Carlos Slim.
In his life, Bill Gates has created at least a dozen billionaires, hundreds of multimillionaires, tens of thousands of millionaires, and enriched the bottom line of millions of people. And it doesn’t bother him one bit.
In Carlos Slim’s Mexico, however, about a dozen families control almost all the wealth. If you belong to one of these families, you can work in the upper management of Slim’s corporations, and get very good pay. But just about everyone else who works for him gets minimum wage, or just a little better.
Outside of the families, Slim has probably never created even a single millionaire.
But the problem with a two tiered society of just an elite nobility and peasants, is that it tends to drive the peasants into craving revolutionary egalitarianism. Which is why socialism is such a big hit in central and South America, and keeps turning up again and again.
But the disease infects all of society. If a group of revolutionary peasants over throw the elites, just they become the new elites, and go right back to oppressing the peasants.
This is a pattern repeated endlessly in central and South America.
Venezuela used to be ruled by its wealthy elites, but they were finally overthrown by the populist pig Chavez, who with his successor has used egalitarianism to drive Venezuela into a ditch.
But the future Venezuela faces is either a return to power of the elites, or more of the current nonsense. They desperately need to learn a middle ground, that it is okay for others to have more than you, and you don’t need to put others down to make yourself feel better.
