President Trump gave a rousing denunciation of socialism — in Venezuela and everywhere else — yesterday at the United Nations but his concluding sentence was way off base. At the end of his speech he implored his audience to join in bringing democracy back to Venezuela.
But it was democracy that made Venezuela a socialist hellhole! Venezuela came to democracy late (1958) and every president since then was a bigger Castro-loving communist than his predecessor, ending up with the odious tyrant Hugo Chavez and now his understudy Maduro. What Venezuela needs is economic freedom –– capitalism — not more “democracy.”
Trump has apparently gone full neocon as far as his speech makers are concerned. They tend to be economically illiterate democracy worshippers.
Trump: “We buy billions and billions dollars worth of that beautiful F-35. It’s stealth, you cannot see it. Is that correct?” Hewson: “That’s correct Mr. President.” Trump: “Better be correct, right?” Hewson: “Absolutely.”
Marillyn A. Hewson is the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin. She should know, right? As CEO of the company that builds it, she'd better know, right?
‘They violated every [expletive] law in the book,’ says Jack Blum, an attorney and former Senate investigator who headed a major bribery investigation against Lockheed in the 1970s that led to the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. ‘They took every imaginable form of illegal and illicit business.’”[23]
