Libertarian Rants

Recently re-elected socialist Daniel Ortega who decided to back up a complete abortion ban in Nicaragua to appease the Christian pressure groups of his country, has now demanded total control of his nation’s armed forces to be placed under him. Chavez on the other hand has recently mentioned Jesus as being the greatest socialist he had ever heard off. Lula who goes out of his way to court evangelical votes has recently kept freeway privatization from taking place. Evo Morales decided to keep religion as a public school subject in order not to lose the support of the church’s radical socialist preachers. 

The Catholic Church in Brasil is one of the greatest advocates for the Brazilian Landless ‘Workers’ Movement (or MST, a de facto terrorist group that has ties to Colombia’s FARC and narcoterrorism throughout South America.) The end product of the Jonestown Christian-socialist experiment was hundreds of dead bodies. We should learn from history, this is what this doctrine leads to. This is what happens when socialism and Christian dogma join forces and triumph. This is what ultimately Christianity and socialism will achieve together: failure, destruction and death.

Now back to South America. Chavez is going to ‘nationalize’ telephone, energy and communication companies. Bad idea. State run companies in South America and elsewhere such as behind the Iron Curtain back in the Cold War days had a history of inefficiency, corruption and lagging behind in technology. To get a phone from the national Brazilian phone company when I was a kid, was a nightmare. Few could afford the cost of the contraption and installation, few outside large urban centers had any access to a phone, and the company constantly had to have tax-based funds pumped into it in order not to go under. Today there are over 100,000,000 cell phones in use in Brasil and 45,000,000 land lines, this in a nation of 180,000,000. My friend’s uncle immigrated from China to Brasil, today he manufactures cell phone bodies in Rio de Janeiro state, I wonder how many jobs this man alone has created. Privatization creates jobs, it creates opportunity, it maximizes efficiency, it curbs state corruption, it’s the invisible hand of the market at its best. Privatization solved problems across the world, why does Chavez think that doing the exact opposite will help his people? He doesn’t, you’d have to be completely idiotic to think that. All he is doing is funneling money to his pocket, and to the pockets of his supporters in government.