Empty meat market Photo: Octavian Paul Draja |
The socialist dictator Hugo Chavez left behind billions in
personal bank accounts while Venezuelans struggle to survive under his socialist
successor Maduro, who mismanaged the economy just as badly. One of the nations
with the richest oil supplies cannot feed its people and provide basic goods
that Americans take for granted, bread, milk, butter, diapers, detergent, just
to name a few, and must spend hours each day in endless lines to find what they
need if they are lucky.
Most people are confused about poverty and each person and
economists define it differently. People, who desire socialism and are voting
for either Bernie the borderline Marxist or Hillary the Socialist, complain endlessly
how unjust and rigged the system is, how the Man keeps them down and there is
no equality and social justice. Nobody seems to have any idea about personal
responsibility and work ethic.
When compared to most countries in the world, American “poverty”
is a bonanza from heaven paid for by government largesse with taxpayers’ money.
This government largesse will eventually come to an end when it runs out of
other people’s money and it can no longer print trillions once hyperinflation
sets in.
According to many Romanians, including hundreds of thousands
of poor gypsies who refuse to integrate into normal society and change their
lives, Romanians are the citizens impoverished by the communist party and their
Securitate successors after the revolution of 1989 when communism ended officially
on paper. Twenty-seven years later, not
much has changed for most rural populations.
The online news expunere.com reported that fifty percent of
Romanians are very poor and 54 percent of rural inhabitants do not have an
occupation. Most children raised in
rural areas have one family member working or the family depends entirely on
social welfare. According to this
source, 72 percent of rural families cannot provide their five-year olds a
minimum acceptable diet, resulting in malnutrition and disease - 225,000
children go to bed hungry.
To make matters worse, 37 percent of people fifteen years
and older are functionally illiterate – they either cannot read or cannot write
correctly. In the rural area, 20 percent of children have only an eighth grade
education. Citing Eurostat, the overall school dropout rate in 2014 was 18
percent. Unemployment in rural areas among young people, 18-24 years old, was
22 percent. http://www.expunere.com/jumatate-din-populatia-romanieie-este-afectata-de-saracie-in-mediul
rural-54-din-localnici-nu-au-ocupatie.html
The standard of living, while vastly improved for people in most
large cities, remained the same in the suburbs and rural areas where no significant
progress in terms of infrastructure has been made. People live and die trudging
through deep ruts in the mud of mostly unpaved roads, carrying water from the
village well because nobody has running water or sewer pipes. Outhouses dot the
landscape.
In a comment to the poverty news, Silvia Cristescu stated that “all corrupt individuals who fall under
the investigation of the National Directorate of Anti-Corruption (Directia
Nationala Anticoruptie or DNA) were members of the former Romanian Communist
Party and their heirs. All who defrauded the country, she said, are pro-Russian
communists and their children.
The more than four million Romanian citizens she believes,
who left the country for greener pastures of economic opportunity and freedom,
understood perfectly who robbed the country blind. A large percentage of this diaspora voted
anti-Ponta, anti-PSD (Social Democrat Party), and anti-socialism. “The enemy of
the country is socialism, Marxist atheism of KGB origins,” said Cristescu.
In her view, those who sold the national forests, the land,
the factories, and other items in the patrimony of the country, were the same
individuals who rejected serious foreign investors under the pretext that they were
not “selling the country” but sold everything they could in secret. After all,
they knew all the ropes and judges, and, without accountability and fear of the
law, pocketed the money, enriching themselves beyond belief.
When honest Romanians tried to replace these former
Securitate members who were running for office or incumbents, their votes were
stolen by those who were bribed to vote favorably or, not unlike here,
mysterious boxes were discovered with hundreds of thousands of votes for the
presidential candidate the people did not want.
The Russian KGB influence was so strong in Romania that
overturning the disaster of socialism is still a daily battle that takes place
today. Socialism will eventually die with the older people who grew up under
the mentality of socialist dependency.
However, young people who have no experience, no historical
knowledge or recollection of how bad it was under a socialist dictatorship, are
lured today into the promise and blind belief that socialism is egalitarian and
socially just, the same leitmotif running through the strident and eager-for-their-own-demise
collegiate voting crowd, the very ignorant millennials.
Some Romanians take comfort in the fact that Christian
America is on their side, that there is now a strategically placed American
military base around Constanta, and that socialism will collapse in Romania.
Unfortunately, there are many NGOs at work on the ground in Romania that interfere
in its politics with loads of cash and grants that are hard to resist, given
the stressed economic situation there.
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