UN: Venezuelan Deportation Spree Has Displaced 20,000 Colombians
A deportation spree triggered by alleged “paramilitary” vandals has forced 20,000 Colombians to leave their homes in Venezuela or be forcefully deported.
Tag: socialism
Age of Obama: Low-Income Workers See Greatest Decline in Wages
We all know what the standard liberal snake-oil response to stagnant wages is: job-killing minimum wage hikes, which also tend to be a big part of the reason income increases grow scarce in the workplace, producing the understandably frustrating wage stagnation people complained about to the NELP researchers and the New York Times. Nothing kills upward mobility for lower-income workers deader than high minimum wages and mandated labor costs like ObamaCare.
Fear the Low-Productivity Economy of the Future
In fact, one of the worst things about politicized economics is the false promise that politicians know what the ideal economy looks like, never mind having solid plans for getting there. Is the ideal economy one in which everyone’s basic needs are covered? Welcome to the endless grey fog of the collectivist welfare or communist state, which always proves unsustainable and fails to deliver on those promises anyway.
President: Venezuela Using ‘Nazi Ghetto’ Tactics to Mass Deport Colombians
In a primetime speech Tuesday, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos condemned the arbitrary deportation of over 1,000 Colombians from Venezuela as a human rights violation, asserting that his government is “seriously considering” taking Venezuela to the International Criminal Court and denouncing it before the UN.
Video: Venezuelan Prisoners Eating Stray Cats to Survive
An NGO operating in Venezuela has published videos of starved prisoners in the socialist nation killing, skinning, and cooking cats on aluminum pans in order to survive, as wardens have forbidden families from bringing food and serve only a small cup of rice and water per day.
Venezuela: Murderer Tied to Socialist Regime Claims He was Paid by Marco Rubio
A man accused of murdering and dismembering a woman in Caracas has become the poster boy for the latest Venezuelan government conspiracy theory: that Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen are personally paying opposition members to destabilize the socialist regime.
Former Finance Minister Varoufakis Surprised Greece Voted ‘No’ on Austerity
In a very long piece on former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis in the New Yorker, the former head of the nation’s economy admits to being surprised both by the Greek people’s rejection of an austerity deal and the Prime Minister’s acceptance of one.
Alberta Oil Companies Hemorrhage Cash After NDP Tax Hike
President Obama is not alone in wielding governmental power to clamp down on carbon-emitting energy. While he weaponizes the Environmental Protection Agency to take on coal-powered energy, potentially shutting down hundreds of coal-fired power plants, Alberta’s new socialist NDP government is pushing ostensibly environmentally-minded policies against oil on shared premises of combating “climate change.”
Infestation of Opossums Kills 17 Babies in Venezuelan Birth Ward
Newly-minted parents at Venezuela’s Dr. Luis Razetti Hospital in Anzoátegui are denouncing its maternity ward for killing 17 babies in a week, the victims of sanitation so poor the ward is overtly inhabited by a swarm of possums.
Report: Hugo Chavez’s Favorite Daughter Is Richest Person in Venezuela
Maria Gabriela Chávez, the most prominent of late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez’s four children, is believed to be the wealthiest person in Venezuela, with a reported net worth nearing $4.2 billion.
Twitter Is Still Very Liberal: A Socialist ‘Wins’ a Republican Debate Edition
(Ferenstein Wire) — Twitter still hasn’t solved its liberal bias problem; during a Republican presidential debate Thursday night, a self-declared European-style socialist scored the most popular tweet of any candidate. Democrat Bernie Sanders snagged a whopping 29,000 retweets (and counting) for slamming Republicans for “not one word about economic inequality, climate change, Citizens United or student debt.”
EXCLUSIVE–Fiorina: I’m Going to ‘Throw Every Punch’ I Can, ‘Tonight, Every Day’
CLEVELAND, Ohio–GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina sat down exclusively with Breitbart News prior to Thursday night’s debate in the lobby of her hotel. Pretty in a pink suit, Fiorina said she was ready for tonight.
Kelly Osbourne Latino Comment: She’s Exposed the Racist, Corporate-Left Immigration Argument
Latinos probably do clean some of Donald Trump’s toilets, especially at the Trump Towers in Rio, or at the Punta Del Este resort in Uruguay. But all things considered, it’s fair to say that Kelly Osbourne’s Latino comment wasn’t actually wrong
Venezuelan President Blames US for Supermarket Riot That Left One Dead
Socialist Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is blaming a United States conspiracy for a supermarket riot over the weekend that left one 21-year-old man dead–a man witnesses say was shot to death by Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Guard.
Venezuela Puts 12,000 Tons of Food in Jeopardy with Military Siege of Nestle/Pepsi Center
The Venezuelan military has invaded and seized a food distribution center in Caracas used by national food and beer corporation Polar, as well as American companies Nestle and Pepsi. 12,000 tons of food, six million liters of soft drinks, and 2,000 jobs are now at risk in a nation suffering major food shortages and a collapsed economy.
Socialist Bernie Sanders Vows No Third Party if He Doesn’t Win Dem Nomination
Self-avowed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has put the powers that be in the Democrat Party at ease by saying that if he doesn’t beat Hillary Clinton and win the Democrat nomination in the upcoming primaries, he won’t try a third party run for 2016.
100,000 Fans Sign Up for Socialist Bernie Sanders’s Campaign Events
Over 100,000 fans have signed up to attend upcoming campaign events for self-avowed socialist candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, Bernie Sanders.
Venezuela Runs Out of Birth Control
Venezuela’s socialist government has run the OPEC nation’s economy to the group, prompting shortages of goods as varied as toilet paper, coffin materials, beer, and water. The shortage has now hit pharmacies, with most pharmacies having completely run out of most forms of contraceptives, particularly birth control pills.
Mark Levin’s Message to America: ‘Plunder and Deceit’
Mark Levin is hardly blind to all the other Big Government plunder going on, but in every chapter he returns to the ruling vs. rising generational conflict, urging young people to wake up and pull the political burglar alarms before they are wiped out. He knows this is an uphill battle, because so many liberal positions have been made fashionable to the very same young people whose future is being stolen by statism.
Madrid Square Named for Prominent Catholic Scholar to be Rededicated For Gay Rights Activist
The left-wing Madrid government is using its powers to erase memory of prominent conservatives celebrated in street names, by renaming them after gay rights activists. The city’s left wing council – the first Madrid has had in 24 years –
#FeelTheBern: ‘Black Twitter’ Skewers Bernie Sanders
“Black Twitter” took 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to task this weekend after he chose to ignore chants from “Black Lives Matter” protesters at the Netroots Nation left-wing bloggers’ conference in Phoenix.
Where Can We Get Some of This ‘Unfettered Capitalism’ Pope Francis Rails Against?
The Pope should also know better than to position socialism as the solution to greed. On the contrary, socialists are incredibly greedy, as the lavish lifestyles of left-wing Men and Women of the People attest. Even in nations that haven’t been completely flushed down the socialist toilet yet, the people who rail against the way other people “pursue money” tend to be filthy rich and accustomed to fabulous luxury themselves.
Jindal On Hillary’s Economic Plan: U.S. To Become Like Greece
Appearing on Fox News Sunday over the weekend while campaigning in Iowa, Jindal told host Bret Baier that Clinton is all about “feeding a greedier and greedier government that’s going to swallow up the private sector economy.”
Between Import Woes and a Union Strike, Venezuela May Run Out of Beer
A Chavista union demanding higher wages, combined with difficulties in importing necessary ingredients, are threatening to leave Venezuela without beer. The potential scarcity of the extremely popular beverage is just the latest in a string of increasingly difficult to find common goods in the socialist nation.
Moore vs. Krugman Throw-down at Freedom Fest
Heritage Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow and former Wall Street Journal contributor Stephen Moore squared off against New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in a war of economic arguments that pitted free market, supply-side economics against statist, Keynesian Obamanomics.
