Starvin Larry

There’s little doubt that the US government’s regime change effort in Venezuela will come a cropper. There’s no doubt that socialism of the Venezuelan or any other variety has a long history of failure and imposes stagnation, misery, and death.  Socialism is evil. From someone who has lived through Venezuela’s, Daniel di Martino at usatoday.com:

While neither ‘Medicare for All’ nor a wealth tax will turn America into Venezuela overnight, all it would take is a series of catastrophic policies.

The first time I couldn’t buy food at the grocery store, I was 15 years old. It was 2014 in Caracas, Venezuela, and I had spent more than an hour in line waiting. When I got to the register, I noticed I had forgotten my ID that day. Without the ID, the government rationing system would not let the supermarket sell my family the full quota of food we needed. It…