Chavez Bans Baths

The unctuous BBC presenter, with his feminized little mannerism, reported on Venezuela's tyrannical Hugo Chavez banning baths as "counter-revolutionary". Chavez has taken a nation which enjoyed relative if uneven prosperity and turned it into a socialist nightmare of shortages and blackouts, in spite of having Latin America's largest proven oil reserves. Unlike Castro's Cuba, Venezuela has no US boycott to attempt to blame her economic downfall on, only the implementation of a central planning, collectivist economy can be the cause. Chavez has had no trouble punishing Venezuela's job creators, the formerly rich who in many cases, have picked up roots and physically fled the country to escape the growing repression. A rising Marxist has no trouble knocking the wealthy off their perch, but this in no way raises the level of prosperity for the rest of the people. Sinking a yacht, never raised an ocean. Every nation on earth has strata of classes and up to this point, rising in America has been easier than anywhere else. Even North Korea has a privileged class, even if it only embodies the Dear Leader and his immediate courtiers.  A couple of years back, after President Bush spoke at the UN in New York, Chavez rose to the podium and notoriously said he "smelled sulfur". Chavez claimed the US leader had left the trail of the devil behind him. Now, we know it was merely the three minute shower Venezuela strongman imbibing his own emanations. Venezuela's decline should be instructive to Americans, Obama can certainly tax the rich into misery here but that will only diminish prosperity and bring us closer to the standard of living of a Cuba, Venezuela, or God-forbid- Zimbabwe.