I feel so sad right now that I just forgot many English words I need to write this post. The government has taken away in the practice the only property my family has. In theory we are still the owners but under many conditions I’ll explain later. I know they have always said that they are not against private property but we know that they act different in reality. We also know that a property can only be public or private. So any other name the government wants to give to a property “social”, “of social interest”, “of cultural and historical value”… is just a prettier way to say that such property isn’t private anymore.
I have spent years seeing how the government simply decides to take away this land or another under any excuses off their legitimate proprietary. Sometimes the government argues that a land is not productive enough to question their private property. But when such land passes to state hands; the land also passes from being a bit productive to unproductive at all. We have also learned that any land, company that the government takes away doesn’t serves to make some social justice. Those lands are not delivered to the “people”, the legitimate owners according to the government but they are simply added to the state monopoly and we, “people”, never look at their benefits. We only see interviews of frustrated owners who have worked for such land all their lives and it has been taken away from them in a whirstle. But during all these years I didn’t do anything about it, besides watching the news with a worried look on my face and commenting them with my friends and family. To say the truth: it did not affect me. My family doesn’t have any of those proprieties neither we personally know someone who haves them. For us, those land owners were just very unlucky rich people in a reality far distant from ours. It sounds politically incorrect and irresponsible to say it but I have made the commitment to tell you all the reality about the ups and downs of living here in this blog; despite how they make me look.
Of course this is about the gorging of Chavez's insatiable desire for power and control.
Why can't leftists in the U.S.A. see that this is where we're headed? I suppose they like what they see in Venezuela.
ReplyDeleteLeftists think of Venezuela sort of like a Magic Eye picture. Sure, it looks like an oppressive dictatorship... but if you just look at the whole picture and let your eyes glaze over a bit, you'll see that it's a worker's paradise!
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