--higher wages
--more jobs
--free education through college
--free medical care
--sizzling economic growth during the 2003-2008 period and relatively quick recovery from the Bushwhack instigated worldwide depression now
--low cost food in state-run stores
--free computers to kids in school
--subsidies for education and retraining
--low cost housing
--strict regulation of banks (protection for small savers, among other things)
--government grants and low cost loans to co-ops and small businesses
--greatly improved tax fairness
--community councils--local empowerment
--honest and fair elections
--government support of Indigenous and peasant farmer land rights
--government subsidy of the awesome and vast "children's orchestra" program
--50% reduction in poverty and 70% reduction of extreme poverty.
On and on goes the list of the REASONS WHY the Chavez government has been elected and re-elected that are NEVER MENTIONED in the corporate press, and whose beneficiaries are NEVER QUOTED in the corporate press. Instead, corporate so-called journalists go out and find somebody with something negative to say, after they've consulted the CIA and the USAID on the latest "talking point" against the Chavez government.
Upshot: The Wall Street ideologues, whom the Corporate Press slavishly worship, don't want us to know that there are significant upsides to socialism. They desperately want us to believe that a socially responsible government will inevitably fail and they are actively working to induce such a failure in any way they can including non-stop propaganda.
Inflation is not the worst thing in the world that can happen to a country with high employment, rich natural resources and a government committed to social justice. And the foaming-at-the-mouth anti-inflationists of Wall Street couldn't be more destructive, here (or wherever they have their talons in the government). Lack of government spending is literally destroying our economy, as we speak. FDR and the "New Deal" had the right idea, after decades of destructive looting by the rich: ONLY government spending can pull a country out of such a hole as we were in then, and are in now, and if that means inflation, SO BE IT. You can't let people starve. You can't let employment reach these low levels. You can't let society implode because of rightwing/corporate ideology. What has the rightwing and its corporate masters ever done for us--or for Venezuelans? Nothing!
THEY created this Depression--and we're supposed to follow their advice? Lula da Silva, recent former president of Brazil, said it all when he called them "the blue-eyed wonders of Wall Street." Their "advice" is self-serving crap.
Venezuela was recently designated "THE most equal country in Latin America" by the UN Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean, and, in poll after poll, the great majority of Venezuelans speak highly of their own welfare and future prospects and of their government and their democracy (which they rate as one of the best in the world). WHERE is this reflected in the Corporate Press? Nowhere! They are writing propaganda not news.
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