Nobel Prize-Winning Clinton AdviserEmbraced Venezuelan Socialism

"Influential advisor to Hillary Clinton"

5.31.2016

One of Hillary Clinton's top advisers previously praised socialist Venezuela headed by president Hugo Chavez.

To illustrate the complete horror show that has become the Hugo Chavez dream, which continues under his successor Nicolás Maduro, a recent New York Timesarticle reported on a country so crippled economically that "hospital wards have become crucibles" afflicted with massive deaths, especially of infants and children, due to lack of medical supplies and antibiotics.

"Gloves and soap have vanished from some hospitals," reports the Times. "Often, cancer medicines are found only on the black market. There is so little electricity that the government works only two days a week to save what energy is left."

"This nation has the largest oil reserves in the world, yet the government saved little money for hard times when oil prices were high," the article continues. "Now that prices have collapsed — they are around a third what they were in 2014 — the consequences are casting a destructive shadow across the country. Lines for food, long a feature of life in Venezuela, now erupt into looting. The bolívar, the country’s currency, is nearly worthless."

Amid this chaos of suffering and death, Venezuela's socialist president Nicolás Maduro had the nerve to say: "I doubt that anywhere in the world, except in Cuba, there exists a better health system than this one."

There may have been a time in America when we didn't have to worry about this lunatic insanity becoming mainstream, but those days died long ago with Leave It to Beaver. Not only does this putridly disgusting excuse of an ideology get treated with intellectual legitimacy at every major university in America, current presidential candidates now take advice from its adherents.

Economist Joseph Stiglitz, who serves as "influential advisor to Hillary Clinton," has previously heaped praise upon the Hugo Chavez administration, calling them successful "in bringing health and education to the people in the poor neighborhoods of Caracas" during a visit to the country in 2007.

According to the Mises Institute:

Last year, as chief economist for the Roosevelt Institute, Stiglitz called for 'rewriting the rules of the American economy' in a crusade against income inequality. His policy recommendations include higher taxes, more 'smarter' regulation, and having the Federal Reserve focus more on unemployment than keeping inflation low — a call for an even more activist Fed than we’ve had since 2008.

Below is the photo of a brain tumor-ridden little girl awaiting a delayed surgery at a Venezuelan hospital due to the lack of needed scanning equipment: