Bill Bubba Bussey

It raised the standard of living.

People there were flourishing because they were making good money working in these oil fields.

And then Hugo Chavez comes in.

And this is what the communist socialists always do.

They have a great sales pitch to the people who have fallen through the cracks or who are not moving up the ladder in the free market.

And they come in and say, hey, those guys who have the oil wells are stealing all of your money.

Now, they don't mention the fact that they're paying a nice ransom of a price for that.

And the president, who was a dictator, steals that money, and it never makes it to the people.

But they blame the U.S.

as justification for taking over the refineries and the oil operations.

And then what happens?

Well, the people who really know what they're doing, the U.S., and the people who work for these big oil companies, all leave.

But our family member had to flee in the middle of the night before the communists took over.

And they come in and they say, oh, we're going to keep all this money at home.

Well, guess what?

The dictator just keeps getting richer and the people keep getting poorer.

But now they don't have a vote because he takes all the guns up.

So they're hung with it.

So Venezuela, and we've seen this pattern repeat over and over and over again.

It happened in Cuba with Castro, Noriega.