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Cortez wants power to spend other peoples' money, Venezuela is where they eventually ran out of it.
Here’s a one-word piece of advice for America’s growing socialist left: Venezuela
By Post Editorial Board June 29, 2018 | NEW YORK POST Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAPFor Democrats planning to head down the path of socialism, especially after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning primary win Tuesday, we have one word: Venezuela. Ocasio-Cortez’s lopsided victory is only the latest example of Democratic voters signing on to hard-left candidates. Self-professed socialist Bernie Sanders, for example, has been successfully pushing the party to the left since 2016. Even nonsocialists are embracing many of his themes, like “Medicare for All,” free college tuition, whopping minimum-wage hikes . . . Before they go down that road, they might consider the real-life consequences of the failed socialistic economic system now destroying Venezuela. Hyperinflation in Nicolas Maduro’s socialist paradise is now running at 43,378 percent. It takes a full fifth of a minimum-wage worker’s monthly salary just to buy a cup of coffee in a cafe, Bloomberg reports. And it’s getting worse: If inflation continues as it has during the last three months, the rate would hit 482,153 percent. That’s a fast track to economic Armageddon. Food is already scarce; medicine scarcer still. The government maintains price controls and pays enormous subsidies on food staples — but it can’t sustain that. Sure, America is nowhere close to Venezuela, economically or politically. But much of the left today is headed in that direction, looking to “socialize” medicine, housing, education, you name it. And paying for it by soaking the rich. Yet the problem with socialism, as the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher put it, is that “you eventually run out of other people’s money.” read more
Victor Davis Hanson – Pantomath in Paradise
June 29, 2018 Whiskey Politics with Dave Sussman Ep. 128 – Victor Davis Hanson joins Dave Sussman at the Whiskey Politics “Malibu Studio” where they discuss whether America is in a new civil war, illegal immigration, Mexico, NAFTA, Europe, the FBI, cronyism, the Left going Lefter, California splitting, and the increasingly overwhelming news cycle. VDH answers questions from Ricochet Members and Whiskey Politics Facebook fans in this long form interview. read more, or listen to podcast below. 
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