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Lifestyles of the Rich and Socialist: From Chavez to Castro, leaders who lived the high life

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Beware those who demand austerity from you, but eschew it for themselves....and enrich themselves once in power....


Lifestyles of the Rich and Socialist: From Chavez to Castro, leaders who lived the high life



Venezuela

Hugo Chavez brought socialism to Venezuela and once said that it is "bad" to be rich. Yet his family lived in opulence even as the rest of the country has in recent years descended into starvation and violence.

Chavez, despite not being wealthy when he was democratically elected as president of Venezuela in 1998, was worth between $1 billion and $2 billion at his death, according to global risk analysis firm Criminal Justice International Associates.


Cuba

The Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, throughout his reign, claimed to live in a humble fisherman’s hut.

“The fisherman’s hut was really a luxury vacation home,” Castro’s former bodyguard, Juan Reinaldo Sanchez, writes in “The Double Life of Fidel Castro.”


~ etc.,m etc. USSR and RED CHINA..too….

Lifestyles of the Rich and Socialist: From Chavez to Castro, leaders who lived the high life | Fox News
 
What’s your point? Robbers gonna rob.
 
Grokmaster said:
Beware those who demand austerity from you, but eschew it for themselves....and enrich themselves once in power....


Lifestyles of the Rich and Socialist: From Chavez to Castro, leaders who lived the high life



Venezuela

Hugo Chavez brought socialism to Venezuela and once said that it is "bad" to be rich. Yet his family lived in opulence even as the rest of the country has in recent years descended into starvation and violence.

Chavez, despite not being wealthy when he was democratically elected as president of Venezuela in 1998, was worth between $1 billion and $2 billion at his death, according to global risk analysis firm Criminal Justice International Associates.


Cuba

The Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, throughout his reign, claimed to live in a humble fisherman’s hut.

“The fisherman’s hut was really a luxury vacation home,” Castro’s former bodyguard, Juan Reinaldo Sanchez, writes in “The Double Life of Fidel Castro.”


~ etc.,m etc. USSR and RED CHINA..too….

Lifestyles of the Rich and Socialist: From Chavez to Castro, leaders who lived the high life | Fox News
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imo liberals tend to live more luxirously, much more prim and proper/lavish lifestyle. When I think country/down to earth type of lifestyle, I usually don't associate that with liberal people.
 
Rexedgar said:
What’s your point? Robbers gonna rob.
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The point is: Socialists gonna rob (and spout their hypocrisy to enable them to rob).
 
Bucky said:
imo liberals tend to live more luxirously, much more prim and proper/lavish lifestyle. When I think country/down to earth type of lifestyle, I usually don't associate that with liberal people.
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We're richer cause we are morally superior. Conservatives have been selling that line for a while. Maybe they were right all along.
 
Rexedgar said:
What’s your point? Robbers gonna rob.
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Beware those who demand austerity from you, but eschew it for themselves....and enrich themselves once in power....
 
Mycroft said:
The point is: Socialists gonna rob (and spout their hypocrisy to enable them to rob).
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Daylight robbery is in progress.....
 
Nickyjo said:
We're richer cause we are morally superior. Conservatives have been selling that line for a while. Maybe they were right all along.
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Liberals were the same people hugging and kissing Harvey Weinstein at Oscar parties. Even A list actresses were all over him.
 
Mycroft said:
The point is: Socialists gonna rob (and spout their hypocrisy to enable them to rob).
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Right because capitalists NEVER are corrupt, cheat, steal or swindle people of money. :roll:
 
Praxas said:
Right because capitalists NEVER are corrupt, cheat, steal or swindle people of money. :roll:
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Whatabout dismissed.
 
I may be wrong (of course), but I think that the dictators of "socialist" China do actually live relatively simple lives.


I understand they all live inside a big compound in Beijing. I am sure, of course, that their lives are very comfortable, but maybe they have NOT personally made huge fortunes.

Outside the compound are these inspiring words (in Chinese, naturally): To serve the people.


For the first ten years after the Communists took over, they truly did work hard to serve the people, according to many impartial observers.


Of course, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, so ...
 
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Praxas said:
Right because capitalists NEVER are corrupt, cheat, steal or swindle people of money. :roll:
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True, in capitalism cheaters cannot thrive for long. It’s only when there’s a state that true corruption can exist
 
Bucky said:
Liberals were the same people hugging and kissing Harvey Weinstein at Oscar parties. Even A list actresses were all over him.
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Hypocrisy is bi-partisan.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
True, in capitalism cheaters cannot thrive for long. It’s only when there’s a state that true corruption can exist
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Huh????

I know that socialism creates a more favorable environment for corruption. But to think that cheaters can't thrive in capitalism! You would have to be an extreme looney libertarian to believe that. (I am a moderate libertarian fyi).
 
Nickyjo said:
Hypocrisy is bi-partisan.
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No, it is not the same. Conservatives know that humans are by nature greedy pigs. We look for ways to deal with it. Socialists, on the other hand, believe that human nature is basically good (except when defiled by living under capitalism).

So when it turns out socialists are greedy pigs like everyone else, it's kind of entertaining.
 
Bucky said:
imo liberals tend to live more luxirously, much more prim and proper/lavish lifestyle. When I think country/down to earth type of lifestyle, I usually don't associate that with liberal people.
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EMNofSeattle said:
True, in capitalism cheaters cannot thrive for long. It’s only when there’s a state that true corruption can exist
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:lamo

What mind-melting nonsense. I can't fathom how you guys actually believe this ****.
 
Kobie said:
:lamo

What mind-melting nonsense. I can't fathom how you guys actually believe this ****.
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How do you get away with corruption in a society where you cannot buy force to protect you from consequences?
 
EMNofSeattle said:
How do you get away with corruption in a society where you cannot buy force to protect you from consequences?
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And what kind of imbecilic personal definition of "force" have you employed such that you cannot buy "force" over U.S. politics, especially post Citizens United?


Actually, don't answer. Anyone who is willing to type out a claim that corruption does not survive in capitalism is not going to have an opinion worth reading.
 
It's kinda sadly funny, the obscenely rich, preaching to the poor about the evils of being rich. Kinda defines the liberals. Convince the poor that they are poor because of rich people and they can fix it by voting for rich people.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
How do you get away with corruption in a society where you cannot buy force to protect you from consequences?
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Ask Donald Trump; he swindled, conned and stiffed people for 40 years and the goobers made him president.
 
Kobie said:
Ask Donald Trump; he swindled, conned and stiffed people for 40 years and the goobers made him president.
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In what ways do you think our country would be better today, had Hillary been coronated?
 
Kobie said:
Ask Donald Trump; he swindled, conned and stiffed people for 40 years and the goobers made him president.
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No he didn’t. You want to believe every media hit on Donald Trump because you’re a lib
 
Mr Person said:
And what kind of imbecilic personal definition of "force" have you employed such that you cannot buy "force" over U.S. politics, especially post Citizens United?


Actually, don't answer. Anyone who is willing to type out a claim that corruption does not survive in capitalism is not going to have an opinion worth reading.
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Citizens united has nothing to do with force, other then that the court correctly ruled Crooked Hillary couldn’t use the power of the state to silence her political opposition
 
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