Reply #53: "They chose to help the US poor."

[rman]

Venezuela helps the US poor, but not at the expense of the Venezuelan poor. Programs to help the poor in V. are in place and working, causing poverty there to drop at an impressive rate. And then they still have resources to spend on poor folks elsewhere.

Goes to show just how much wealth there is to go around, if most of it isn't confiscated by the rich and powerful.

People wonder how poor Cuba manages to provide the essentials of living (food, housing, health-care, education etc) to everyone there, mostly for free. And though the food is boring and housing is minimalistic, Cuban education and in particular health-care is amongst the very best in the world. How does Cuba manage it? It's simply a matter of priorities of how to spend the riches of the nation; spend it on the supply-side (while claiming it will "trickle down" - which it doesn't), or spend it on the population.