Settled Science?

On Monday, October 29, 2018 at 4:36:18 PM UTC-7, John B. Slocomb wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 06:56:07 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 9:21:16 PM UTC-7, Andre Jute wrote:
On Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 7:06:52 PM UTC, jbeattie wrote:
On Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 9:44:52 AM UTC-7, sms wrote:
On 10/28/2018 8:12 AM, jbeattie wrote:

Using logic to argue with Trump supporters is a zero-sum game. Accept
that you are Pol Pot and move on.

I can't be Pol Pot. I went to college and wear glasses. I'd have to kill myself.

-- Jay Beattie

Pol Pot went to college. He won a prestigious scholarship to study engineering in France.

AJ
Just the fax, mam

I lived through the time of the communist expansion and its collapse. It is this second occurring in Venezuela which used to be the second richest country in the Americas. But communists are really not all that bright - if they look at history and they see socialism's absolute failure they can still blame it on the working capitalism in the rest of the world.

Ah but Venezuela is a democratic country, not a communist country, if
anything it might be called a fascist country. And the economic crash
is largely a factor of depending almost solely on a single source of
income - oil - while at the same time increasing welfare program and
house building for the poor. .

This of course made the government popular and ensured that voters
would support the re-election of government officials - which it did.

But unfortunately with a single source of income when oil prices sank
so did the nation's income and instead of restricting the freebies the
government simply printed more and more money. As there was plenty of
currency in the system while at the same time less and less goods for
sale the price of goods skyrocketed, exactly the same as Germany after
WW I when the cost of a loaf of bread became 200,000,000,000 marks, as
it did in 1923.

What is it? Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it"?
--
Cheers

John B.

As is usual from you, Fascism was "invented" by Gentili and is a form of socialism but apparently are unaware that is was also an underpinning of the German National Socialists Party - NAZI.

Venezuela was rich from its farm production and everyone was fed. After the socialists were voted in AS MOST SOCIALIST GOVERNMENTS ARE BY PROMISING TO GIVE EVERYONE THE MONEY OF SOMEONE ELSE all of the farm workers moved into the cities to live the good life on the buck of others. Farm produce fell to near zero and Venezuela became a net importer of food almost overnight. Oil prices fell because of massive discoveries elsewhere driving the prices down and the country went to hell.