Four days without electricity in Venezuela #SinLuz #SocialismKills

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Since Thursday afternoon (four days ago at time of publication), Venezuela has been facing a power outage. So far, it has killed 19 hospital patients (modern hospitals rely on electricity for patients to survive for longer). Thus, the situation in hospitals in Venezuela looks more like the nineteenth century, when hospital patients were unlikely to survive a visit.


In the early morning hours, there was an explosion of a transformer in Caracas, as a result of lack of government care and maintenance. If it were privately owned, they would fix it quickly. A nationalized industry means that the government decides on who will receive the benefits instead of the private owners. Nationalizing industries is for losers. For example, PDVSA is nationalized, but it is in big trouble. The only way to save PDVSA is to privatize it. Big government bureaucrats rely on corruption rather than efficiency. State-run industries are too inefficient, let alone government control of the private sector.
The situation has gotten worse in Venezuela as electricity is out for four consecutive days. People began looting (with the crisis becoming acute).
Socialism never works. It is analogous to smoking several packs of cigarettes every day. You get addicted to tobacco, then your health declines, until you quit smoking.
Tom Stiglich for Mar 11, 2019

Meanwhile, progressive crooks like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated that "capitalism is an 'irredeemable' system that is to blame for income inequality."
Seriously? Free markets have lifted billions of people out of extreme poverty. Now, extreme poverty is confined to just sub-Saharan Africa.
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Capitalism turns luxuries into necessities with the gradual buildup in personal wealth. Socialism does the opposite because the government eventually runs out of ordinary citizens' money. Thus, socialism (central planning) never works! Socialism is all about government control and greed of corrupt far-left politicians. Also, when a state goes socialist, there is no easy way back, as socialism will result in government controlling its citizens for a long time.
Socialism: always a failure, no matter what. 

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