Venezuela stealing private land from citizens.
By taiguy
@taiguy (478)
United States
March 26, 2007 4:29pm CST
Good ol' Hugo Chavez, the venezuelian president, released administrative plans to create "collective property" as part of ssweeping socialism reforms. The idea is officials would move to seize control of large ranches and redistribute lands deemed "idle".
Chavez states, "It's property that belongs to everone and it's going to benefit everone. It cannot be production to generate profits for one person or a small group of people that become rich exploting peons who end up becoming slaves, living in poverty and misery their entire lives."
Personally I believe the reason people are so poor is because of his impulse socialism. What do you think?
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
26 Mar 07
Hugo Chavez is simply being Hugo Chavez. He's always been a maniacal thief who would rather watch 100 kids die of starvation than miss a meal himself.
Like his mentor Castro, he is a hero of the Hollywood elite. I don't see them missing any meals either. Hmmmmmm
Maybe they are all buying "Starvation offsets" so they can claim to leave a "carb neutral footprint" ;~D
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@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
26 Mar 07
I wonder if Hugo Chavez knows of what happened to food production in Zimbabwe when land was seized and turned over to the people? Where previously there was plenty, there is now a major famine. Is that what he wants?
Another example that comes to mind concerning the productivity of collective farms was in the book, "MIG PILOT".
Some time ago a USSR mig pilot defected to the USA. The defense department needed some place to stash this guy for a few months to hide him from KGB operatives.
A high defense department official asked a childhood friend who now ran his family's very large ranch if he would board this defector to help out his country.
While living on this remote huge range run mostly by one man and his immediate family the former USSR military officer was astonded. It seems this one man and his family greatly outproduced comparable collective farms in the USSR.
This is part of what helped the defector to know he had not made a mistake in coming to the USA.
So, anyway, if Hugo Chavez wants to not learn from the lessons of history, recent history at that, I do not see how we can stop him.
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