...for a socialist government to torpedo the prosperity of its subjects? Unfortunately, the experiment has been going on in Zimbabwe and Venezuela for the past few years, and the answer is troubling; months.
Just as Lenin caused starvation in the breadbasket of Europe, Mugabe has caused famine in one of Africa's breadbaskets. Even more shocking, Hugo Chavez has managed to empty his country's grocery stores via price controls during the biggest bull market in petroleum in decades.
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Joe Doakes, late of Como Park, emails: I guess a guy got arrested for
interrupting the State of the Union address. A parent, protesting the
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