A Nobel Laureate in Economics claims that poor people in America have it worse than poor people in Africa or Bangladesh because — I am not making this up — it’s such a burden for them to have to apply for welfare benefits here.
A lot of these programs have been turned into block grants, like [the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or welfare, program], and it’s very hard for people to get them.
If you had to choose between living in a poor village in India and living in the Mississippi Delta or in a suburb of Milwaukee in a trailer park, I’m not sure who would have the better life.
Later in the article, he admits he hasn’t spent time in Appalachia or the slums of a Democrat-run American city, but he summers in Montana. That’s close enough, isn’t it?
The poor guy in India doesn’t have an electric bill or a need for a plumber or have to buy gas for his automobile or pay for cable bills for his TV that crush him deeper into poverty. And he has a whole landfill of fresh garbage to scavenge. Also, his Nikes don’t go out of style, because he doesn’t have any shoes at all.
If we “taxed” our entitlement recipients one percent for entitlement transfer to India, watch how tolerant they would be and think of the diversity dances they would undertake.
… Quam magnum vectigal sit parsimonia !
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Congratulations To Bolivarian Socialism — Now Even the *Cubans* are Fleeing Venezuela, as the Country Finally Declares Humanitarian Crisis
3/25/2017
The economic horror in Venezuela continues to unfold–the Bolivarian socialists have achieved the entirely remarkable feat of making Cubans flee the country in search of a better life.
Seriously, Cubans, from a poverty stricken socialist dictatorship are now leaving an oil rich nation in search of a better life. It takes a serious level of economic mismanagement to achieve that.
That serious level being exactly the one thing that Venezuela has lots of, of course. So much so that Nicolas Maduro has just appealed to the United Nations to come and organise the supply of medicines for the country. This being something that normal places can manage on their own and usually rather well too.
The cause of all of this is that Maduro, and his predecessor Chavez, decided that the way to run an economy was to do everything that the textbooks say you shouldn’t do to an economy.
Mr Maduro said the UN had the expertise to normalise the supply and distribution of drugs in the country.
Venezuela’s Medical Federation said recently that hospitals had less than 5% of the medicines they needed.
The president blames the problems on an economic war against his government and the sharp fall in oil prices.
There is indeed an economic war going on here. And it’s one being waged by the Bolivarian socialists against the Venezuelan population. The tactic is simply to destroy the price system and thus the market. Given that non-market economies do not work this ensures the destruction of Venezuela’s economy.
Since Hugo Chavez first took over in 1999, Venezuela has mostly relied on workers from Cuba (which at some point numbered 100,000 in-country, including doctors and nurses) to manage its health-care system.
However, that decades-long experiment has largely failed — so much so that the government needs to ask the U.N. for help. More than half of the Cuba-manned CDI first-response centers, located mostly in Venezuela’s worst “barrios” (slums) have been closed and the Cuban doctors fled Venezuela for better lives in other countries.
Yes, even the Cubans have left.
But just acknowledging that Venezuela needs outside help is a telling sign of how far the nation sitting atop the world’s largest petroleum reserves has fallen under Maduro.
To give an example of the economic lunacy under way:
A gasoline shortage in OPEC member Venezuela was exacerbated by an increase in fuel exports to foreign allies such as Cuba and Nicaragua and an exodus of crucial personnel from state-run energy company PDVSA, according to internal PDVSA documents and sources familiar with its operations.
You’ll not be surprised to hear that Cuba and Nicaragua do not pay market prices for that fuel. Even when there’s a domestic shortage and Venezuela is itself desperate for cash.
Long time readers will note that I continually harp on about this Venezuelan disaster. And there’s a reason for this. It is purely and solely because the economic policy in that country is so absurdly bad. This hasn’t been caused by the oil price decline, not by the Gringos attacking the revolution, it has all happened simply because of the actions of that domestic government.
And yet there are all too many people who were cheering them on. Like David Sirota:
“No, Chavez became the bugaboo of American politics because his full-throated advocacy of socialism and redistributionism at once represented a fundamental critique of neoliberal economics, and also delivered some indisputably positive results.”
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2017/03/25/congratulations-to-bolivarian-socialism-venezuela-declares-humanitarian-crisis
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Obama – Maduro – Chavez
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Because some men just don’t give a crap.
if this is true I hope we can convince the colonists that come to the united states illegally that they would be better off in Africa and india.
this guy is a nobel prize winner in economics and you thought Obama winning the peace prize was an outlier.
Virtue of the West
These ladies share what they have seen happening in the US and recently in Europe
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Naturally – an article in The Atlantic. Further proof that too many college educated people today are total waste.
Even being poor in America is an first prize of birth in this world. But – yes, America is such a ‘evil’ and ‘racist’ country…
God bless America. We need all the blessings we can get facing these waste of an ‘college education’.
I sense some tax season bitterness…
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“Plundering the American Gullible at Large Since 1991”
Right off the bat I was going to guess he doesn’t ‘summer’ near Crow Agency, or the prairies and farm country of Eastern Montana, or the now-depressed, once-booming community of Butte; then I checked his bio and found out he and his Princeton-employed wife’s leisure [pronounced ‘LEH-zhure’] pursuits are “opera and trout fishing”.
So he might get his opera fix elsewhere, but if he likes trout fishing, I’ll bet that he therefore “summers” in either the Gallatin Valley with Ted Turner’s other well-compensated friends, or the Flathead Valley (where the poorer nouveau riche ‘summer’). Either locale is not where one finds an abundance of affordable housing or working poor (who might actually work several jobs there, but live outside the dominant communities therein). So he can spend his entire year never actually interacting with the people he claims to champion (save for the service people whom I’m guessing he barely notices except when they screw up at their jobs). Nice work if you can get it.
I know that when *I* was growing up poor majority-minority (*) in Indiana, my fondest dream was to move to Bangladesh or Africa.
(*) or is in minority-majority? Whatever, we were the only white kids for blocks around.
Wish you would have warned me it was a link to the Atlantic.
you think he got his nobel prize for his economic views or his political ones?
Socialism : The Pornography of Solidarity
— Christian Michel
(My translation from the French)
https://www.wikiberal.org/wiki/Christian_Michel