Rush Limbaugh Apr 06, 2021

The Washington Post has a article titled From Riches To Rags and its about Venezuela. A country that use to be South America's wealthiest nations, but is now one of the poorest.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Washington Post just ran a long article title From
Riches to Rags, and it's about Venezuela. Venezuela used to
be one of South America's wealthiest nations, but now is
one of the poorest. The Post describes how this oil
rich country is Latin America's new underclass because it's buckling
under the weight of Venezuela's descent into socialism. There's no food,

(00:21):
there's no electricity, there's no money. Every day five thousand
people flee the country try to escape starvation. In the
last two years, two million have fled, another two million
will leave this year. Women women risk being raped and
attacked by smugglers, members of the upper class, skilled professionals.
They are abandoning their property, taking jobs as day laborers

(00:41):
in other countries. But life is worse for those who
stay in Venezuela. It's also totally predictable, and I did
predict it when Hugo Chavez came to power back in
But our brilliant liberal elite, including Hollywood stars, praised Chabez
and has chosen six us her socialist dictator, Nicholas Maduro.

(01:02):
American liberals always celebrate socialism, just as they're doing today
in the Democrat Party because they see it as total power.
Even though it fails every time it's tried, they still
think it hasn't been tried by the right people with
the right amount of money.