I’ve heard of sore losers, but never sore winners.
“El Presidente, it is best to steal all the money, not just 39.6 percent of it”
But that’s what popped into my mind when reading how the dictator of Venezuela supported Obama, yet already is second-guessing the President for paying insufficient attention to domestic affairs.
Yup, the thug who is presiding over an economic nightmare is presuming to give advice about domestic policy to the White House.
If you can believe it, Obama is being nagged for insufficient redistributionist zeal!
Here’s some of what Reuters wrote about the topic.
Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, has advised newly re-elected U.S. President Barack Obama to…concentrate on fixing internal problems. “He should reflect first on his own nation, which has a lot of economic and social problems. It’s a divided, socially fractured country with a super-elite exploiting the people,” the socialist president said late on Thursday in his first reaction to Obama’s victory this week… The 58-year-old Chavez, a quieter figure these days after a year of debilitating treatment for two bouts of cancer, had backed Obama over Republican challenger Mitt Romney in the White House.
As a nonpartisan patriot, I think it’s time to rally behind the President.
Chavez is a despicable thug and an economic illiterate. So if he’s whining about Obama, that at least means the President isn’t moving the country rapidly in the wrong direction.
Is that damning with faint praise? Of course.
But however much I criticize Obama’s policies, I am 99 percent sure that it is a good thing that Hugo Chavez is disappointed.
US Constitution=4 handwritten pages & secures the blessings of liberty. Venezuela=86 pages & “guarantees the right to life,work,learning, education,social justice & equality.”
Yes but 36.6% is the delusional beginning. It will be a token class warfare gesture, a drop in the bucket in satisfying the generalized entitlement expectations of HopNChange, so inevitably the middle class will have to be brought in to “participate”. Expect Obama to come out with tentative slogans “we cannot just offload everything to the rich” so that he can appear more “balanced”, centrist and also gets the middle class to contribute funds for politicians to manage. But then, the economic distress of the resulting lower growth (and crossing the pivotal threshold of loosing top spot in worldwide competitiveness- probably already happened) will bring out more desperate majoritarian pitchforks for another round of tax increases. Politicians will promptly forget portraying the last tax increase as sufficient to solve the unexpected, unfair and temporary (ha ha) circumstances. This cycle will repeat until politicians themselves, behind closed doors, start discussing “we just can’t promise people more redistribution we’re well past the peak of the Laffer curve” (and way beyond the peak of the growth maximizing Rahn curve- the only determinant of longer term prosperity – but politicians will not discuss that, they only care about the Laffer curve and immediate revenue they provide management services for). Then, you’ll have France, or the French stage of decline which may even last a few years in relative equilibrium. But it won’t stop there, as France’s trajectory will demonstrate, alas not soon enough since the US is already in the vicious cycle. Then there is Greece. But that’s not the end either. Remember all that is happening in Greece is about accepting a twenty percent cut in standard of living. Not negligible but not the end of the world it is portrayed to be. The bottom is much further down…
… and this is where you’re headed dear Americans.
Politicians finally nailed you too into the vicious cycle, using the same well oiled scrips of prosperity through mandatory collectivism. You made your own bed. With your margin of advantage over the rest of the world having worn very thin, this is the “change” that nails you. More than anything, Europeans must be ecstatic that the US who once provided the counter example to their declining welfare states, has finally stepped on the same banana peel. Yes collectivism doesn’t work but at least the mighty US is down. European mediocres rejoice.
Can i get an “Amen!” for brother Zorba …
I thought you didn’t care how fast your country moves in a direction, only about the direction it moves?