December 22, 2008

If you build it, I will steal it

This ought to make socialists and communists everywhere gleeful. In the typical parasitic fashion of communists, the simian king of Venezuela waited for the construction of a huge shopping mall in Caracas to near completion before deciding that he would just take it.

Chavez says mall to be expropriated in Venezuela

Sunday December 21, 8:00 pm ET
By Ian James, Associated Press Writer
Chavez orders halt to construction of Caracas mall, says building to be expropriated

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez ordered construction halted on a major shopping mall in Caracas on Sunday, saying the government will expropriate the unfinished building.

The Venezuelan leader said it would be out of line with his government's socialist vision to allow the new Sambil mall to take up precious urban real estate -- and that unbridled consumerism isn't his idea of progress either.

It really should come as no surprise to anyone; Communism has never built anything -- it has only stolen what it can, and destroyed what it can't.

Posted by Alberto de la Cruz at December 22, 2008 10:02 AM


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