Zimbabwe Experiences the Penalties for Bad Government

The next time you head to the polls, you might pause to remember what the penalties are for voting unwisely.

Here’s a quote from ‘Crackdown’ in Zimbabwe as Police Raid Hotels:

“He (Mugabe) ordered the often-violent seizures of white-owned commercial farms, ostensibly to return them to the landless black majority. Instead, Mugabe replaced a white elite with a black one, giving the farms to relatives, friends and cronies who allowed cultivated fields to be taken over by weeds.

Today, a third of the population depends on imported food handouts. Another third has fled the country and 80 percent is jobless. Inflation is the highest in the world at more than 100,000 percent and people suffer crippling shortages of food, water, electricity, fuel and medicine. Life expectancy has fallen from 60 to 35 years.”

Robert Mugabe is a collectivist and a statist. He believes that big government is the answer to all of a nations problem. He has devoted the last 28 years of his life to turning Zimbabwe into his vision of a collectivist paradise.

Next time you hear a U.S. politician offer to solve your problems with “free” help from the government, take a moment to consider the cost.