Ahh, socialism. It is indeed wondrous in its ability to demolish prosperity. It’s like a giant syringe stuck into the heart of a society with it’s plunger extracting slowly, drawing all the beating life from the organ until it’s a deflated shriveled husk resembling more a scabrous raisin than any life giving organ.
For today’s installment of “Be careful what you wish for” dedicated to all of those Bernie Sanders fans, I reference the current health care system offered by that bastion of socialist prosperity: Venezuela. For more detailed information of the shining sickle south of the border, check out the entire New York Times story, Dying Infants and No Medicine: Inside Venezuela’s Failing Hospitals. But please heed it’s title. It’s not for the faint hearted. There are some heartbreaking pictures and stories.
Meanwhile, Hugo Chavez, the departed loud mouth dictator who “socialized” Venezeula, has a daughter who mysteriously (Okay, maybe it’s not so mysterious) amassed a net worth of over $4 billion. Looks like those hospitals could make good use with that. Once again, the central planners benefit from central planning and not much else does.
