“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”
– Robert A. Heinlein (sci-fi writer, from whose “Stranger in a Strange Land” that “Grok” is derived)
And do you think the Socialists that ran Venezuela for the last 17 years took that to heart? Ummm,
In 2001 Venezuela was the richest country in South America; it is now among the poorest.
And Democrats are the Party of Socialism
(H/T: Instapundit)
