"Compassionate Egalitarianism" Has Made Hugo Chavez's Daughter A Billionaire
Love that term, which I got from Glenn Reynolds on a post about printing money going "haywire" in Venezuela.
Socialism works! That is, if you're one of the people in charge. Hugo Chavez's ambassador daughter is Venezuela's richest woman, reports the Daily Mail:
During his lifetime, Hugo Chavez denounced wealthy individuals, once railing against the rich for being 'lazy.''The rich don't work, they're lazy,' he railed in a speech in 2010. 'Every day they go drinking whiskey - almost every day - and drugs, cocaine, they travel.'
After her father's death in 2013 and until her appointment to the United Nations as alternate ambassador, Chavez continued to live in the presidential mansion, forcing the current president Nicolas Maduro to remain at the vice presidential home.
El Comercio reported in 2014 that opposition congressman Carlos Berrisbeitía claimed the daughters of Chavez and Maduro were costing the Venezuelan state $3.6 million a day.
Reminds me of an old Soviet-era Russian joke:
Brezhnev is showing his mother how well he’s done. He shows her his suite in the Kremlin, his dacha in the country, his Black Sea villa, his Zil limousine.
‘All very nice, dear,’ she says. ‘But what will you do if the Bolsheviks come back?"
Socialism, Communism, Sovietism, Boshevikism; a rose by any other name . . .
charles at August 29, 2015 4:26 PM
Those advocating a revolution always think the revolution won't eat them. But the revolution eventually eats all of its children. Just ask Robespierre. Or Trotsky. Or Mao's wife.
Conan the Grammarian at August 30, 2015 12:11 PM
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