Senator Bernie Sanders: “These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Venezuela …”
libertynewsdaily.com reports:
Five years ago, future Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders described Socialist-ruled Venezuela as a more suitable exemplar of the American dream than the United States.
In an essay lamenting what he described as the intractable income inequality of the American economy, Senator Sanders declared: “These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger.”
Despite receiving trillions of dollars in oil revenue over recent decades, Venezuela is in the midst of an unprecedented economic collapse, owing precisely to the redistributionist programs that Sanders has extolled as a model for the U.S. economy. Grocery store shelves are barren, hospitals have no access to vital medicines, rationing is under way, and riots have begun to coalesce in the streets of Caracas.
Ecuador’s President, Rafael Correa, is preparing to leave a country mired in a deep recession and facing a currency crisis. Like Venezuela, Ecuador has been ruled by a socialist government that was able to subsidize its social engineering projects through oil revenues. The end of the oil boom has left the government without the means of paying for its programs, and as Correa prepares to leave office – most likely turning it over to Vice President Lenin Moreno – he used a recent earthquake as a pretext for a huge tax increase.
dailywire.com reports:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) became a little testy when asked to comment on the anarchy occurring in socialist Venezuela.
In an interview with Univision, Sanders was asked: “I am sure that you know about this topic: various leftist governments, especially the populists, are in serious trouble in Latin America. The socialist model in Venezuela has the country near collapse. Argentina, also Brazil, how do you explain that failure?”
Sanders dodged the question by saying his focus was on running for president of the United States of America. When pressed further Sanders said, “Of course I have an opinion, but as I said, I’m focused on my campaign.”
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“Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore must be off his rocker if he really believes that Venezuela’s socialism has proven beneficial for its starving and suffering masses.
Yet Moore apparently believes as such, judging by his tweets, meaning he has either lost his mind or is dumber than a box of rocks.
“Hugo Chavez declared the oil belonged 2 the ppl,” he wrote on Twitter Sunday, referencing the late Venezuelan president. “He used the oil $ 2 eliminate 75% of extreme poverty, provide free health & education 4 all.””
Hugo Chavez declared the oil belonged 2 the ppl. He used the oil $ 2 eliminate 75% of extreme poverty, provide free health & education 4 all
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) March 6, 2013
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