re: Country's gone. It's over.

I would not be so negative. I used to think that way, when over 50% are taking more from the system why would they vote to change it, but they do.

Consider Trinidad where I live. Lots of oil and gas money so we are far different than most of the Caribbean. US had 100,000 troops on this island during WW2 to protect the oil going to England. With it came a lot of westernization. Highways, port, airport, schools, hospitals, etc. And that culture stuck in the populace psyche.

This latest govt voted in has been a disaster. They promised bells and whistles to all the right groups, and now their polling is horrible, why. Well because like most socialist believers, I can have everything I have now ....AND THE BELLS AND WHISTLES. Oh the unions got their raises, we got the fetes (parties), we got the extra pensions.

But we could not pay for it all and we had to sell Petrotrin, the largest employer in the country...and the union lost their jobs. All the state run companies that hired their cronies are now losing millions of dollars. The roads are a mess. They squandered a billion dollars on a water treatment plant, after everyone got their kickbacks, it sits half way built and idle, and the country is outlawed from using garden hoses for the next two months. Dozens of schools are in horrible shape, the backlog for operations in our free health care is abysmal. Our police force is horribly corrupt, and our murder rate has now soared to nearly seven times that of the US. At a time when unemployment is soaring, we have been overrun with thousands of illegal Venezuelans and a virtually non existent immigration service to deal with them.

My point is, you dont have to get to Venezuelan levels before someone screams....Who is John Galt.