Venezuela starvation serves as example of failed giveaways – Valley Breeze

5/17/2017

In the May 11, 2017, issue, Tom Wards column Reject business-crushing paid sick leave proposals shows us the harm that will be done by the Fair Shot Agenda that is now working its way through the Statehouse. I agree with Mr. Ward that socialism fails. Every. Single. Time. Yet, the 21 state representatives keep pushing this immoral Fair Shot Agenda that promises us free stuff.

Last year, presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders promised lots of free stuff to be paid for by the one-percenters. The Venezuelans were ahead of Bernie. They happily voted for Hugo Chavez in 1999. Chavez, too, promised free stuff. As a result, every useful idiot and NPR intellectual told us how lucky the Venezuelans where to have such a wise and great leader. It took Venezuela only 18 years from being a prosperous nation to starvation. Yet, can I expect the NPR intellectuals or 21 state reps and R.I. voters to learn from this example? Of course not.

In the May 1, 2000, issue of National Review was a column on Cuba by John Derbyshire titled: Still Useful, and Idiotic. I still remember the line: Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.

The monstrous immorality of altruism, of sacrificing prosperity to starvation, of sacrificing life to death, preached by the useful idiots, is beyond comprehension. Maybe Tom Ward should do what the heroes in Atlas Shrugged did. Go on strike. Adri Kalisvaart

Lincoln

Continue reading here:

Venezuela starvation serves as example of failed giveaways - Valley Breeze