The

Maduro

Madness of Socialism!

Venezuela’s Marxist Dictator Orders Arrest of Bakers Making Croissants

Maduro, rather than to take the justified blame for the economic malaise that his socialist policies have caused, has dreamed up all manner of straw men to blame for the country’s woes, starting with the United States aim to make his administration look bad through “intervention” in the economy. He blames the greed of bakers and others still trying to eke out a living under the most draconian of rules. He also blames El Nino for the economy’s problems, along with the country’s drought.

He has inflated the money supply to the point where the local currency is all but worthless. He has set price controls — designed, he says, to check inflation and keep goods affordable — at levels that have taken necessities off the market altogether, including toilet paper, essential food items such as bread, medicines, deodorant, paper goods, and hospital supplies, including drugs, antibiotics, and intravenous solutions. If a patient needs a prescription, he must bring it with him when he checks in. 

Rolling blackouts interrupt critical hospital functions, such as respirators, forcing doctors to keep patients alive, when they can, by pumping air into their lungs by hand. Sanitary gloves and soap have vanished, as has enough water to wash blood from operating tables. 

The government is doing everything it can to stem the crisis, according to Maduro, 

everything 

except the right thing: 

letting businessmen, such as bakers, serve customers without government interference. 

But totalitarians such as Maduro have little interest in giving back any such freedom, and they squash any that happens to spring up.

 DYI