The
Socialist road to ruin From: Cecil Crinnion, Sycamore Close, Slingsby, York.
FREE university education, increased social benefits (no bedroom tax), increased
funding for the health service, increased social housing, nationalised banks,
utility companies and transport, borrowing billions to improve roads and
infrastructure. Sound familiar? No it’s not the Labour Party manifesto, but the
policy of the socialist government of Hugo Chavez that’s left Venezuela more or
less destitute and stuck with social unrest and a left-wing socialist government
the people cannot seem to get rid of. This is a country that should be oil-rich.
All you can say (at best) in defence of Mr Chavez, is he meant well (Bernard
Ingham, The Yorkshire Post, August 16).Read more at:
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/yp-letters-nhs-bled-dry-by-excessive-spending-1-8710919
