It is a nation that was often pointed to by Hollywood and media elite as a socialist utopia. Actor Sean Penn embraced its former socialist dictator and the country’s “socialist revolution” which he hoped would spread across the globe. Filmmaker Michael Moore gushed over the lie that Venezuela provided free healthcare and education to the poor. (These were official publicly declared policies by the dictator regime – the reality was far different but Mr. Moore was either too ignorant and simply ignored that reality.) And now, bloodshed is rampant as people are starving, homeless, and increasingly hopeless.
Socialism kills. It always has. It always will.
Longer and longer food lines in Venezuela has led to the recent and bloody violence depicted below:
What has Sean Penn, Michael Moore, or the Mainstream Media said about the violent hardships now gripping the Venezuelan people? NOTHING. A recent Lifezette report put it this way:
Study finds ABC, CBS, NBC barely cover left-wing catastrophe, avoid word ‘socialism’
Out of approximately 50,000 total evening news stories on ABC, CBS and NBC combined in the last four years, just 25 have covered the ongoing crisis in socialist Venezuela, according to a Media Research Center study published Tuesday.
…“The network evening news programs seem allergic to reporting on the ongoing crisis in Venezuela,” Ciandella told LifeZette in an email. “Even worse, the few times they have managed to cover the widespread poverty, starvation and government oppression in that country, they somehow find ways to do that without mentioning the word ‘socialism.’”
Millions of people are suffering but America’s Mainstream Media doesn’t care because...
President Donald Trump has fulfilled a key campaign pledge, announcing that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.
The Paris Agreement, which committed the U.S. to drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, was a truly bad deal—bad for American taxpayers, American energy companies, and every single American who depends on affordable, reliable energy.
It was also bad for the countries that remain in the agreement. Here are four reasons Trump was right to withdraw.
1. The Paris Agreement was costly and ineffective.
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The Paris Agreement is highly costly and would do close to nil to address climate change.
If carried out, the energy regulations agreed to in Paris by the Obama administration would destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs, harm American manufacturing, and destroy $2.5 trillion in gross domestic product by the year 2035.
In withdrawing from the agreement, Trump removed a massive barrier to achieving the 3 percent economic growth rates America is accustomed to.
Simply rolling back the Paris regulations isn’t enough. The Paris Agreement would have extended long beyond the Trump administration, so remaining in the agreement would have kept the U.S. subject to its terms.
Those terms require countries to update their commitments every five years to make them more ambitious, starting in 2020. Staying in the agreement would have prevented the U.S. from backsliding or even maintain the Obama administration’s initial commitment of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28 percent.
The Obama administration made clear in its commitment that these cuts were...
