I guess they didn't "have the right people" leading the Socialist charge, again! - Granite Grok

I guess they didn’t “have the right people” leading the Socialist charge, again!

I generally dislike posting an entire post from elsewhere unless I’m doing a fisking but I think the Left that reads the ‘Grok should see this – and then try to explain it away.  You see this pretty much every time a country goes full Chavez / Maduro (emphasis mine): From Instapundit.

THE WAGES OF SOCIALISM: Venezuela Is So Broke It Can’t Even Export Oil.

A fleet of rundown Venezuelan oil tankers carrying some 4 million barrels of oil and other fuels is wallowing in the Caribbean Sea. Not because of bad weather, or mechanical problems, but because Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela SA, doesn’t have the cash to get them to their final destinations.

Beyond the obvious environmental risks, it’s doubly bad news for Venezuela, a country in dire economic straits and full-fledged crisis, with a political impasse, looting, dangerous food and health supply shortages, and massive protests. Venezuela is massively reliant on oil exports to bankroll government services. But the cash-strapped country can’t even find the money to service the vessels that carry its exports. And Venezuela needs the exports to get the cash to service the vessels. It’s a vicious circle.
It’s a vicious circle made possible by the Venezuelan government, and nothing free markets and private ownership couldn’t fix practically overnight.

But remember, Socialism is that political system that makes the Powerful really, really rich; it is NEVER about the Little PeopleReportedly, the richest person in Venezuela is Chavez’s daughter at $4 Billion.  She became rich when he became their Dear Leader.  And the majority of the powerless can’t even find food.  But as Stephen Green points out:

But better that Venezuelans go cold, hungry, and sick than to reduce the power of the State.

The Progressives here in the US?  Or just Democrats (not that there’s any difference anymore); cut from the same cloth.  Go ahead, ask them what kind of program they’re willing to cut to show good faith (other than the military which most of them hate – we’re too powerful and the money can be spent enlarging the public dole)?  Betcha dollars to donuts they’ll refuse to say.  Don’t doubt me, as Venezuela is now living out Margaret Thatcher’s words:

They’ve run out of other peoples’ money.

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