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Quote Of The Day: "Venezuela Must Deepen Socialism To Improve Economy" - Maduro
Practically presented with no comment, we could not quite believe the words coming out of Venezuela's President Maduro last night as he addressed the nation's concerns over mile-long lines for toothpaste, toilet-paper, bread, and soap:
- *VENEZUELA MUST DEEPEN SOCIALISM TO IMPROVE ECONOMY: MADURO
Having apparently failed on his mission to Asia to garner enough support to drag oil prices up to the $100 level he "believes is fair," Maduro went on to explain how he will "change the food supply system, not the economic model," to solve the nation's crisis, since "most of the private sector are parasitic bums."
As AP reports,
The complex crisis facing Venezuela has endangered the continuity of socialist model driven for more than a decade Chavez, while from the government the possibility of a revision of the model arises and any substantive change is discarded,
"The socialist model that created the commander (Hugo) Chavez is not a dogmatic model , is a model that can make adjustments, restructuring, " said Vice President Development Territorial Socialism, Elias Jaua, told The Associated Press by recognizing that the government is open to considering changes in the model. However, Jaua said that adjustments would never involve a shift "back to free market," and said the idea is to maintain a model that "give satisfaction to the people's needs."
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Maduro has more to say... (as Bloomberg reports)
“Private sector, not everyone but most, are parasitic bums. They are a threat to the country”: Maduro
Product shortages caused by problems in private supply networks
“We have to change many things but not the model”: Maduro
Maduro says tried to gain liquid funds for “economic development” during foreign tour; doesn’t comment on success of efforts
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And the market's betting it's not going to get better any time soon...
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Yep looks like it's under control...
Because no one will complain - How many Working Man-Hours Daily are lost in Venezuela due to lines?
(Translation - Sorry, am I the only one who thinks spending your life queuing is wasting valuable time?)
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Did he mean most of the socialist sector are parasitic bums?
Doesn't he realize creating currency isn't the same as creating wealth and value? He should, because apparently his endless paper money creation isn't even good enough to buy toilet paper. At least he could make the notes of a softer texture and kill two shitbirds with one paper stone.
Same kinda “community organizer”... just different language. ;-)
Looney
Chinese Socialism will save Venezuela. Print money to fund jobs for R&D and production is the right way to do it.
Print money to buy stuff is why he failed.
Who would have thought a bus driver might not be able to orchestrate top down Nirvana?
pods
Somewhere a jew is rubbing his hands together.
"Oh we can help you out with your liquidity issues. And with so many resources, you will have plenty of collateral. Here is what we think you need to do."
Paging Mr. Perkins, paging Mr. Perkins......................
pods
Hey, I just thought of something that's easier to change than either the food supply system or the economic model. Change the President.
Hell, I wouldn't get on this guys bus. Fucker would blame ME and have me hanged if it ran out of gas.
pods
Look at those lines.
They're gonna need more porta-potties.
Parasitic bums, lol
"Le he ordenado al vicepresidente ejecutivo, al vicepresidente de Economía y al vicepresidente de Seguridad Alimentaria que citen a todos los mayoristas y distribuidores del país"
As funny as this might seem, how long before we see migrants crossing the GOM to the shores of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida like we see coming from Cuba or the Europeans see coming in from North Africa?
I think many of the wealthier Venezuelans now live in Florida or Texas. I know there's alot near me and they brought lots of cashola with them -- doctors, lawyers, small businessmen -- all leaving that there 'Social Paradise' back home.
and they shut down their toilet paper factories before they left.
What is wrong with all those pussies standing in lines? The day I stand in line for a roll of toilet paper is the day I just start offing anyone in a uniform. And I will aim for the highest ranking uniforms first
Their central banker doesn't want to use their freshly printed currency to create jobs, typical Chosenite. It's all going to his Chosenite friends. Same as they did in Germany before Hitler set things right. Paying interest to a central banker is like paying interest to Zerox for making copies. Evil, evil, evil chosenites.
<-- obsessive-compulsive disorder
<-- paranoid schizophrenia
Nothing wrong at all.
It's democracy at its finest.
If the oligarchs don't like the results of an election, they have every right to cut production of everything they produce by 50%.
When all the pussies are standing in line, let them think about whom they voted for. And that standing in long lines serves them right for not voting for the oligarch's candidates.
And let the oligarchs in Palm Beach think this is how revolutions get started
In Obamaean dialect, "You didn't build that, and even if you did, you're a parasitic bum."
Ever notice how failed leaders always seem to accuse others of that which they are most guilty themselves? Must be a sub-conscious thing.
Psychological projection kills in the hands of a Socialist
like Salva Kiir in South Sudan.
It's simple. No politician can ever admit he was wrong.
Even more sad to see the ignorant throngs that believe them.
Isn't funny how everytime a collectivist regime fails it's because there was ENOUGH socialism. If only they could of taken more.....
Or print money and buy unsellable mbs bonds for 100 cents on the dollar, from banks, like the Fed
That works only when the Chinese peg their currency to yours. That's a luxury Venezuela doesn't have, yet.
So they're just not implementing socialism correctly? lolz bitch please. All these shit-brained theories that end with -ism are doomed to fail. Just leave people alone. What the hell is so hard about that?
Venezuela needs Chinese advisors to run their economy for them. If the Chinese is smart, they would send them in.
Venezuela may not yet be ready though.
If all bureaucrats were perfectly moral with an IQ of at least 130 with an appropriate education and life experiences, they might have more success.
If you have incompetence, corruption and complacency running amok, of course failure is inevitable. You just need higher quality human beings.
That is why we need a Sith-based model of socialism, it is like the Peter Principle, everytime you succeed you get promoted. When you fail, you get publicly executed. Eventually, a perfect bureaucracy will emerge.
@VAD
What's so hard about leaving people alone is that if they did that, the government's power and privilege would disappear overnight. The piece I will never for the life of me understand is how anyone believes that governments actually act with a desire to benefit the population. I guess it's projection: because many of us have an idealistic side to us and ideas about how we could make the world better, some project that idealism on to the government structure and think the government also wants to work to make the world better. Unfortunately, thousands of years of history argue against governments genuinely operating in the interests of any other than those running them. The system is maintained by blind allegiance along with governmental bribes to keep people just fed enough so they don't starve. That's then described as success. Insanity.
Correction: Endless paper money creation is the production of toilet paper.
Instead of toilet paper, I use a brick… and a stick to keep jackalopes away ;-)
Looney
By the Supermercado queues looks like skinny is very much in. And not an electric shopping trike in sight. Everybody actually walks when they shop. Amazing. Of course being fat and standing in those lines might raise a few rationed eyebrows I suppose.
Venezuela has a shortage of toilet paper.
That's only because they've been printing digital pesos instead of actual paper ones.
Perhaps if those "lazy bums" launched a full scale invasion he would be more impressed.
Not like you see Venezuela mixing it up in the sandbox or mouthing off to Poopie Pants.
They're all a bunch of connivers. No one cares what they think because they do not think..."and we have a computer program for that."
And stop mocking toilet paper.
Even if they printed man, you can't wipe your ass with a banknote, it just like using tin foil. Trust me on this
Looks worse than the daily bread lines in the Soviet Union.
At least queuing was free in the SU.
They haven't figured out how to use Wal-Mart and EBT cards to mask it all by having people go shopping at midnight.
I call them "the looters". World is getting full of the bastards.
Just like the Soviet system, lots of paper money, nothing to buy with it.
Hawaiian congresswoman slams Obama over mishandling of Islamic extremism:
http://tinyurl.com/pn5l4k4
OK, Mr. Bus Driver. Whatever you say.
Soy Charlie.
Soylent Charlie (coming soon).
What cronies they are, they stole the slogan from the Federal Reserve.
Nicolás Maduro is certainly not as charismatic as Chávez was, but should had take better advantage of Venezuela's position inside OPEC, being also one of the first members of the organization. Russia should also approach Venezuela, especially after the latest decision by - the manipulated by the US oil industry and the Saudi monarchs - OPEC, which harms the interests of both countries. Venezuela must also take advantage of Brazil's position inside BRICS and form with, as many as possible, Latin American countries a strong coalition against brutal Western corporate and financial monopolies.
Just what's been going on, from my casual following of the subject. IIRC, China recently committed to another $40B or so in funding. Russia pitching in would only be a greater incentive for West-Debt-Owing countries to band together in an independent money system, the development of which has kicked into high gear lately since the "sanctions" on Russia.
Imagine not paying any debts owed to the traditional "West." And having an independent financial system to recognize it as a legitimate thing.
The dollar is not gonna last long, imo.
Dollar monopoly is dying and that makes neocons and their banking-corporate masters much more dangerous.
As a naive child, I fervently believed that the wish "may you live in interesting times" was a blessing.
Damn, I miss that.
Must be why the dollar is so week and the ruble is so strong............
Guess the markets don't know shit.............
If you want clicks, start with coherent sentences. Just sayin'...
One major problem for Venezuela in that regard, is that Venezuela is heavily dependant on USA refineries. There is alot of oil in Venezuela, but much of it is high in sulfer content and more difficult to process. Until they get their refinery sitution cleared, they will never decouple from the USA. Given that they already don't take care of their infrastructure, platforms, or even basic goods.....I would not expect a strong Venezuela any time this century.
Why are the people not thrilled with this Socialist Paradise?
They voted for it. They're getting what's coming to them.
Sure about that?
They use paper ballots and appear to openly count votes so probably yes they did.
Just a secondary target in USS's financial war on Russia. It was a robust strategy.
Venezuala has been collapsing well before the price of oil started to decline.
Central banks and their "markets" are very resourceful things. Debt service is indeed a bitch.
She has a real knack for showing up at the Deep Gov's most opportune moments.
Whether you are a person, a company or a nation, you can only consume more than you produce for so long before it catches up to you.
Because coercion of votes through force or bribery is impossible.
Because the list of people they were "choosing" from wasn't stacked?
Because the government wasn't in control of their press?
Shut up, dumbass.
No one forces you to vote or who to vote for. Any name can be written in.
So I don't see the need to "shut up".
Maybe so, but WHO is counting the votes?
I can accept that democracy is as much a part of the problem if democratically elected leadership institute demanded socialistic or re-distributive policies.
People generally seem to back/vote/accept politicians that promise them 'free' goods and services.
It doesn't really matter whether there is a coherent plan to generate the goods and services by some novel if ill defined new method or if the method of generating the 'free' goods and services is the same old domestic expropriation or foreign borrowing/war bounty format.
Not production, expropriation: theft by conversion whether by legislation or executive action if still theft.
Sadly, there will probably always be a certain percentage of any given population too deficient of moral and/or intellectual capacity to see through promises of unearned largess or care that it can only be provided to them via confiscation. State directed theft is in many ways empowered by the mandate of populaces even if not overtly or overtly by ballot.
Many people demand something for nothing inowing that something cannot come from nothing. Whether they actually vote for it or just take advantage of the situation as it developes isn't as important as admitting to the facts.
ven has a 100% e-voting system. it certainly doesn't get any more secure then that right <sarc>
"Venezuela uses some of the most secure and advanced voting technology for its elections. Venezuela’s electronic voting system is 100% auditable with 17 audits carried out and involving all the political parties at each stage"
http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/7315
and just think, very soon USSA voting system will be there too.
1) Ballot box stuffing
2) ballot box swap
3) real ballot box " lost"
4) fake ballot box "found"
I'm sure the CIA and the local oligarchs have nothing at all to do with any of this.
fixed it for you
/s
It looks like this could be a case of the CIA saying "Wait, lets sit this one out Bob. They'll fuck it up themselves."
What's the record?
For socialism not working or for the CIA going in and wrecking countries?
My interpretation was the CIA not wrecking countries that "threatened" to make socialism work.
I'm not saying it would ever really work. Just saying we all know they hate nothing more than real socialists.
Economic hit men for the empire.
Literally.
"real socialists"
"real capitalists"
I challenge you all to give one example of either and defend that answer.
You probably cannot.
There are no real pure capitalist governments or real pure socialist governments.
You are merely arguing over which ideological construct is being bastardized in the furtherance of OLIGARCHY.
Very true, when you omit basic human necessities apart from democracy. That is called a Republic. We had that once..kind of.
This "capitalism" isn't working either so I don't see it as an either/or choice. I'm thinking something that combines various ideas that work from various systems. I don't hang on ill-defined labels, but I do know the history of the CIA and they are everywhere.
Yes, they are everywhere, almost certainly including Venezuela. I'm just saying that they probably don't need to do very much over there. Venezuela has been manipulating its currency supply like mad and, unlike the US, it cannot export its inflation. It has also done stupid things like price controls, which just about everybody on ZH knows will not work. All that the CIA needs to do is to sit there and watch as that alone leads to financial and, eventually, political instability. Destabilizing Venezuela is kind of like harpooning a beached whale.
Oh, socialism. When will people learn?
Socialism is simply the use of government force to benefit group A, B, and C, at the expense of group X, Y, Z
All governments are therefore socialist
All socialism relies on force and coercion
Therefore, only anarchism and voluntary market exchanges are moral.
THAT hit the nail right on the fucking head.
A Yale University professor William Graham Sumner came up with the "forgotten man" concept in the late 1800's that was later twisted by Franklin Roosevelt. Originally it meant person A and B concluding that X needed help and C had to do something about it. He called "C" the forgotten man.
"He is the man who never is thought of.... He works, he votes, generally he prays—but he always pays..."
When introducing his Great Depression reforms, Roosevelt quoted William Graham, but instead called "X" the forgotten man, pretending "C" didn't even exist.
The religion of government-believers, therefore, must believe that some rape is okay depending on who gets it. It's really more of an issue of morality than practicality. Government/socialism (at the expense of one or some for the benefit of even many, ie "the greater good") is always very beneficial to some groups of people, especially the oligarchs behind the scenes who've created and pushed these "governments" upon their people. Just remember that taxes, laws, and punishment are always for the little people while they blindedly cry, "but who will build the roads?" Shit.
Well, only if all people are moral AND share your morality.
News bulletin:
The majority of human beings are tribalist foragers. Only a small minority of human beings are producers, i.e. farmers and herders.
The famers and herders MUST protect their fields and flocks form predatory foragers. This doesn't occur as a result of "voluntarism". It occurs because the farmers and herders have guards armed with battle axes, spears, bows and arrows, shotguns, RPG's, stealth bombers, drones with Hellfire missiles, or whatever it takes.
An armed society is a polite society
"only anarchism and voluntary market exchanges are moral. "
This deserves repeating. +1
Ahhhhhhhhhhhahahahahahahahahahaha! As if your country isn't already fucked enough, now you're going to put some sand in the lube! Boys and girls, Venezuela may be one of the first places to see a resurgence of guillotines or ropes and lamp posts.
They ran out of lube a month ago along with soap. Now it's just sand.
Good point. They just need to go to the beach and scoop it up. How long do you think it'll take them to figure out why their peckers are rubbed raw?
They're socialists. They'll run out of beach sand before it's over and blame the ocean.
Their peckers will be bleeding from fucking the sheep with sand, and they'll blame the ocean. Now that is some socialist logic for you!
brocken glass available, grain is bigger than sand, but... when all is out of stock....
Yes, broken glass will boost the economy. You get to boost the glass making sector of the economy and the proctologist sector of the economy at the same time. Brilliant! Krugman is a piker!
The stall will be happening one way or the other. Best split this pig along lines of our choosing.
The honest and the not. Its a global sickness.
Same like the "we didn't do enough" shit socialists always say.
H. L. Mencken
Another Mencken quote that seems like it'll be more relevant in Venezuela in the future:
Which is one of the reasons it is a horrible form of governance.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what is for lunch. A Republic is a well armed sheep contesting the vote.
Benjamin Franklin.
I think the key word is sheep. Yes, there are a lot of people who are armed, but shit has to get worse before they rise up. The irony here is that the cronies are so entrenched in the system that rising up would make things worse. A lot worse. Supply chains would break. You wouldn't be able to go the supermarket and get food, nor would you be able to go to McDonalds and get a McShit sandwich. Clothing? Pfft. Shoes? None for you! But that's going to happen anyway, and it is best if it is blamed soundly on a retarded strong and central government that kept on lying to us, rather than a bunch of people who simply want liberty. Again, the keyword is sheep. They'll look at the proximate cause and go no further. It behooves us to make sure that the proximate cause of the inevetable is something that is an enemy of liberty.
Restoration is the sheep killing the wolves.
The banksters need to repay us.
I'll accept payment in the blood of the 13th tribe.
i agree with Maduro. With deepening socialism people will have less to eat and as a result the toilet paper shortage will be greatly reduced.
I enjoy Maduro Wrapper Cigars, but I don't think anyone's enjoying this other Maduro guy. I imagine the safety conditions on those Socialist Paradise oil rigs are ripe for some "broken eggs" in the name of good ol Uncle Karl. Sad part is that many politicians in the US would love to dish out some wood shampoos to dissenters just like that cartoon shows.
Democrats: "What a great idea."
Exactly like Seinfeld's "Have sex to save our friendship".
It's like saying to a chick "I need to fuck you deeper to improve your virginity."
I smell Cuba behind all Maduro is saying and doing. The Cuba-style rationbooklet is being printed, and will sell as a achievement of socialism..to the people of Venezuela too. In the mean time, Cuba is leaning back to the USA in order to extend their brutal regime for a few years more, and plundering as much as they can from the poor Cubans.
Not sure if it's Cuba you smell behind Maduro
They did run out of TP down there
Because it works so well everywhere it's tried!
Every time I read about all those "socialist paradises",the famous quote from Margaret Thachter keeps popping into my mind...
At least it's fair.
:-/
Note that Mr. Maduro is not in-country. He's busy traveling the world barking up the wrong oil price fixing tree. Gee, I wonder when Dear Leader will return to Venezuela? This clown WILL be hanging from a tree within the next year. Since the Latino populace seems to be either apathetic (or unarmed) I suspect that a military coup will take place.
We Socialized some folks....
Dont laugh its also US & EU public policy to expand the Socialist state to make things better.
Obamacare, Carbon taxes(Obamacare for your water &power) even mass immigration is socialism.
Maduro is going to get it Fallujah-style...
"Quote Of The Day: "Venezuela Must Deepen Socialism To Improve Economy" - Maduro"
Translation: "Those of us that benefit from the theft that we call socialism wish to continue benefiting from that theft as long as possible."
The banksters need to repay us.
It is not what they say, but their lies, that means anything.
Deepen socialism to run all the way to Terra del fuego. Or deepen socialism to break the back of orenoque goo?
Either way, its a pipe dream that won't bring food and jobs to Vene-zoo.
Alligators hate being deprived of their food. And socialism looks like an innocent girl thats ready to feed their jaws.
Shades of Jaws and angry claws that has Maduro's words in their cross hairs.
Maduro is no Oscar pretender, he can't ACT.
'Cos you have to act to PROVE by fact you are a world class actor.
Looks like American Sniper will run all the way BEYOND the Dnieper, and start YOU KNOW WHAT !
Maduro went on to explain how he will "change the food supply system, not the economic model," to solve the nation's crisis"
and this folks, is how populations end up starving to death...
How is that different from
"US Must Deepen Keynesism To Improve Economy" - Krugman
USA 2017
Funny isnt it? As in funny ha ha, as no fucker anywhere on this fucking rock say fuck all when socialism is forced upon the banking class.
Its fucking down right hilarious when this class of folk get bailed out at your expense to the tune of fucking trillions, hehehehehe, funny as fuck.
Socialize the losses, privatize the profits, no matter how incompetent you are then, no matter how bad your wrong doings may be, no matter what illegal operations you overseen, fuck that. Fuck them all eh?
Just blame those waiting for mother fucking toilet roll then eh? Because those poor fucking know fuck all folk waiting politely in line for toilet roll caused the collapse of the western world, didnt they you fucking criminal banking scum? Those fuckers caused the lot, didnt they you heinous cunts??
Tick fucking tock.
Cunts
If only Venezuela could have a reserve currency and make other countries pay for its largesse, then they would the idle time to pen skewed articles like this.
Correct Oddjob my friend.
Hangings are long overdue.
Utter fucking cunts
;-)
Reality truly is abitch huh?
Waking up sucks my arse as well.
Oh well...Nature always win in the end.
Not yer fault mate.
All they have to do is to move to a cryptocurrency and each person will have control of their own wealth and what the government does or does not do won't bother them very much.
May I suggest bitcoin: Last Price $209. Better get it before Yellen unleashes QE4
President Obama is expected to unveil "America's College Promise" in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. According to the White House, the proposal would make two years of community college free for an estimated 9 million students, if all states participate.
Above is the boondoggle of a lifetime. With any luck Q99X2 will be proud founder of a community college near you.
Isn't that the truth... Community college windfall of frn's spend them quick..
Well in his defense, its not that simple. South America is famous for corruption. Not sure what the solution is but if he lets private sector have more freedom, it will be like the mafia pilaging everyone and extorting all the businesses. Not much different than the gov now. Like I said, not that simple.
South America is famous for corruption because the absolute worst of the worst European scumbags brought it there whilst they plundered and killed everyone.
Crime exists in a country to the extent that people are willing to tolerate it.
There is no greater corruption than that which comes from the power of government.
Either we force people to behave as we like through the power of government, or we empower citizens to defend themselves.
And over in the 'free-market' West, we must do more QE to improve the economy!!!!
Disillusionment 101 - hoping for solutions from the people who created the problems... talk about a basketcase....
Also, spending hours in line is quite effective birth control, "Honey, I'm too tired to F, spent all day in a line...."
http://news.yahoo.com/video/measles-outbreak-initially-linked-disneyland...
Well, that's OK. With socialism, everyone should get the measles. It's fair AND it's free!
All private suppliers should cooperate in the spirit of the leader's speech and shut down their operations immediately to avoid making a profit, then go join their countrymen in support by standing in a line somewhere. Makes sense to me.
Still no soap? I call bullshit.
Fake chaos is being stirred up all over the planet.
One would expect at least that much suspicion on a site that, after all, is built on the power of good ole, ubiquitous soap.
The yardstick of civilization. And we own that civilization.
Or there's deep regret to be found. And, of course, exploited to support the controlling myths of the empire.
Je ne suis pas Charlie.
National suicide demands the death of EACH citizen.
ALL citizens must die.
Then the revolution shall be complete.
Otherwise Capitalism shall win.
Time to go long on kool-aid
Those that make light of the Venezuelan situation don't realize that the same thing is going to happen in the United States. As global deflationary pressures mount, prices and wages will fall, shortages of all kinds will happen and the U.S. will suffer just like the rest of the world.
The stock markets have just begun the downward trek. They will continue downward as everything gets sucked into the deflationary vortex. The last of the asset markets to succumb to the pressure is stocks. Every other asset class, bonds, commodities, real estate, gold and silver, oil, etc., have already begun the decline into the abyss. It is now stocks turn.
DOW
http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/dow-jones-industrial-averageelliott-w...
S&P 500
http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/sp-500-indexelliott-wave-update-for-w...
I'm pretty sure I've heard Emperor Obama say the same thing!
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." R. Feynman
"VENEZUELA MUST DEEPEN SOCIALISM TO IMPROVE ECONOMY: MADURO"
That's exactly what I've said a thousand times: when socialism fails, its true believers demand more of it. What a gas...
You can replace "socialism" with "QE" for the USA.
If you want a dominant ideology, a uniformity of thought, the easiest way is to eliminate those who do not believe, those who resist. Starving is the easiest method, as we have seen in the USSR, communist China and North Korea. This is especially true for those ideologies who are centered about collectivist centrally controlled societies.
I don't understand how people can stand socialism.
You see it makes your poorer.
You see it makes you hungry.
You see it makes you wait in long lines for things you used to get delivered to your doorstep.
Why the fuck wouldn't you burn down your government under socialism?
If I lived in Vnz I would either be forced to move out of the country or throw shit at govt buildings lol I mean . . . cmon... who the fuck wants to wait in lines for bread. . . give me a fucking break...
People will suffer all kinds of things, especially if they think the punishing polices are hurting others even more. They will sell the idea that sacrifice is necessary in order to punish and bring down these blood sucking capitalists. Look at how many years the soviet people suffered for that very goal.
Not all that different than surrendering our freedoms to defeat our enemies, or suspending capitalism to save it. All bullshit. Collectivists never have enough, they must have it all.
"most of the private sector are parasitic bums."
Who here, doubts the accuracy of the above Maduro quote
vis-a-vis Wall St??? Go ahead, I dare you.
Of course, he didn't bother to mention that;
"most of the Statists ( like him ) are parasitic bums" as well.
Parasites exist at the behest of government. They can only exist in a monopolistic environment and in our society that can only happen with the permission, or the help or the turning of a blind eye by government. Competition of free markets provides the only sustainable system as it is self clearing. The problem is that few want to compete, they just want and when faced with a choice of fighting for it or joining an association who, through the force of power in number, will take what they want, competition is trumped.
The ugly truth is that most will accept far less for the sake of forced equality, which is why we see socialism voted in again and again. Many see greed as the problem, but I see jealousy as the problem. We should not give one shit what others have unless they are using it to harm us. Today however, harm is caused by simple emotional stress, the thought that others may have more and that it somehow reflects on our self image, an insult to our motivations, intelligence or skills.
There is always an excuse.
OK thats a really good post.
Agreed... Oldwood hit it pretty straight.
Explains why the 10 Commandments come down pretty
hard and lengthy against "covetesness" ...
Problem is that to solve these problems of green eyed jealousy
and covetesness, society has an age old solution... WAR...
Which gets you right back to the whys and wherefores of
the 10 commandments!