GOVERNMENT TAKEOVERS OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY

IN VENEZUELA A GOOD EXAMPLE OF WHAT IS 

COMING HERE TO THE UNITED STATES

First of all, who cares? You should. You need to read about what happens to functioning markets when the government gets involved. Sooner or later the market is destroyed. If you put the government in charge of the Sahara desert it will run out of sand because government is a political animal and the animals who run as career politicians are greedier and dirtier and better at lying and getting away with crimes than the businessmen they shake down. The businessmen are trying to make a living and provide goods and services to where they are needed most. The politicians are trying to do whatever it takes for personal and financial gain (usually by finding some kind of moral sounding ground to stand on so they cannot be attacked for the immoral beings they are). Who serves you with the better purpose? 

After the politicians in Venezuela have ruined the market system by their interventionism, they have taken over almost every major industry through nationalization. If you are a Venezuelan you can go to one of 6,000 supermarkets that Chavez has set up (it is really just a rudimentary food bank) and you will be lucky to be able to buy rolls of toilet paper. The country has run out of it twice in the last few years. These "supermarkets" were set up after Chavez took over the private supermarkets that were closed because they wanted "dollars." 

Unfortunately for the ignorant people of Venezuela that do not understand dollars are votes by consumers to drive what products should be sold to them, Venezuela continues down its path of no return. It would almost be funny that people can be so stupid except that in all socialist and communist societies people end up starving (and dying) before the people wake up and start over, usually through revolution. Now Venezuela is going after the car manufacturers because "all they care about is dollars." Soon they will all be walking.

General Mills reported their earnings yesterday and they had a very large expense related to Venezuela as have many corporations that do business there. The only question is how much longer are these corporations going to sell goods to a country that is so interventionist and unfair. The rule of law requires laws to be changed at a snail's pace so that all actors may know the rules of the game. When a punk changes the rules so that he or she is the only one that can win a game then everyone quits playing. Madura, like Chavez, is punking his country. Venezuelans need to wake up with pitchforks and run him out of town before there is no town left. 

Click link below to read how ignorant people (and leaders like Madura) are letting their country be destroyed like Zimbabwe (really sad)

 http://www.acting-man.com/?p=28711

Click link below to read about the ridiculous interventionism into the car industry by Venezuela

http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/10217

Click link below to read USA Today article about trying to buy a car in Venezuela. Can you wait two years?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/02/13/venezuela-toyota-car-industry/5433735/

Click link below to read how Toyota can't even keep building cars in Venezuela because Maduro is an ignorant leader who doesn't know how to run a country (yet he finds time to blame companies for leaving Venezuela). 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/10/toyota-venezuela-idUSL2N0LF0SP20140210

I don't know about you but Obama and Obamacare remind me of Chavez and Madura.