TRUMP TO WORLD LEADERS: SOCIALISM BRINGS ONLY 'MISERY' At
U.N. urges resistance to system of 'suffering, corruption and decay', by Art
Moore, 9/25/18, WND.
“Today socialism has bankrupted the oil-rich nation and has driven its people
into abject poverty,” he said.
In his address Tuesday to the United
Nations, President Trump called for the “restoration of democracy” in Venezuela
and used the once prosperous nation’s demise as an illustration of why every
country on earth “should resist socialism and the misery that it brings to
everyone.”
Trump, announcing new sanctions
against “the repressive regime,” said the world is “witnessing a human tragedy”
in Venezuela, where the IMF projects the inflation rate will hit 1 million
percent this year as people struggle to find basic necessities.
“More than 2 million people have
fled the anguish inflicted by the socialist Maduro regime and its Cuban
sponsors,” he said.
Trump noted that “not long ago,”
prior to the election of socialist revolutionary president Hugo Chavez in 1998,
Venezuela “was one of the richest countries on earth.”
Trump then moved to his universal lesson
for the leaders gathered Tuesday at U.N. headquarters in New York City.
“Basically, everywhere socialism or
communism has been tried it has produced suffering, corruption and decay,” he
said. “Socialism’s thirst for power leads to expansion, incursion and
oppression.
“All nations of the world should resist
socialism and the misery that it brings to everyone,” the president declared.
In his U.N. address, Trump also criticized Iran’s mullah-led, Islamic regime
as a “corrupt dictatorship” that sows “chaos, death and destruction.”
In 1995, the first year of the index,
Venezuela scored 59.8 on its 0-to-100 scale, more than two points above the
world average.
Under Chavez and his hand-picked
successor, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela has moved to second place on the list of
the world’s most economically repressed countries, behind only communist North
Korea.
Amnesty International issued a report
earlier this month saying millions have been forced to leave their possessions
behind and walk to neighboring countries to escape the poverty along with human
rights violations such as “arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial executions, torture
and violations of their rights to food and health.”
A New York Times headline last December
summed up the tragedy: “As Venezuela Collapses, Children Are Dying Of Hunger.”
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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