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America’s central planners
German, Russian, Venezuelan, Cuban, socialists! All tore their countries apart. Now these criminal quacks are doing the same thing to America.
They took advantage of real or imagined enemies of the people and these central planning thugs changed things for the worse.
The German socialists said the Jews were the enemy. The result: The Holocaust.
The Russian socialists, from 1932-1934, led by Stalin, rounded up all the talented Kulak farmers and put them in “collective farms.” The result: 3.9 million dead, due to starvation.
In Venezuela, incompetent central planners like Hugo Chavez ran the country into the ground. Death camps, class warfare, hyper-inflation and resulting starvation are the hallmarks of these rabble-rousers.
And now, our “enlightened” central planners, like Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders and Warren, say our enemy are the rich and they will make things better for the people by taxing the wealthy. The pedigree of these incompetent morons is in the historical record for the people to read and vote accordingly. We can have the last word when elections come around and we remove these hacks from office.
Larry Treffry
Spokane