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President Nicolas Maduro announced Monday what Americans won't here President Barack Obama announce: a 30 percent increase in minimum wage and pensions to protect Venezuelans from inflation nearing a 60 percent annual rate.
Maduro blames soaring consumer prices for a well orchestrated "economic war" launched by opposition groups against his socialist government.
“This is an opposition that openly receives at least US$40 million per year from the United States to undermine the Bolivarian Revolution,” says journalist and Venezuelan political analyst Pablo Vivanco.
[Read: 9 Lies About Venezuela Most Americans Believe]
U.S.-backed critics blame Venezuela's endemic inflation problem on the failure of 15 years of socialist economics under Maduro and his late predecessor Hugo Chavez. They do not look at their own unjust capitalist system that impoverishes mainly women and their children.
The majority of people earning subminimum wages and living off tips in the United States are women. Is it a coincidence that the tipped minimum wage has been frozen at $2.13 since 1991?
“We don’t think so,” Living Off Tips spokesperson and waitress Jennifer Rexford said a few months ago.
“I cannot provide for my children,” she said. “We cannot provide the healthcare our children need. We cannot provide transportation we need to work. We cannot provide the basic necessities in life.
“If the minimum wage was more than $2.31, I’d be able to feed my son and myself,” says another waitress Garland Dosier.
Over 10 million servers are being financially abused in the United States in a way Venezuelans have not due to Maduro and before him, Chavez.
"Now, because of the May 1 celebrations, I have decided to increase the minimum national salary and pensions by 30 percent to levels that will defend the quality of life of our people," Maduro said at a meeting with workers' leaders in Caracas.
One can see how the Obaa administration would not look too kindly on the Venezuelan president.
Maduro, 51, a former union leader, narrowly won an election to replace Chavez last year. He has announced there would be three May Day workers' rallies in Caracas this Thursday.
Student opponents, backed by U.S. covert forces on the ground stirring chaos and violence, are planning protests as part of a three-month campaign of street demonstrations against Maduro.
A United States-backed opposition has been aggressively undermining the Nicolas Maduro government that most Venezuelans voted to have, want and support.
Fabian4Liberty changes his planned discussion from real estate to discuss the recent banning of Clippers owner Donald Sterling by the NBA, and calls it a major hit against free speech rights as well as questioning the legality of banning him, forcing him to sell his business, because of ignorant, stupid remarks recorded by his Latino/black girlfriend and made public.
As Fabian points out, starting at the 1:04 minute mark in the video below, the comments were offensive, ignorant, stupid, and any other number of adjectives thrown at him for his remarks, which a video/audio of those remarks will be shown below the Fabian4Liberty video, but they still fall under the right of free speech. Especially private free speech, which without his permission was made public.
If this NBA ban is enforced, then as the title of the video states below, free speech is in real trouble. Free speech protects even stupid, offensive speech as long as it isn't meant to incite violence.
Another point made is that the free market can take care of this all by itself. Fans can stop going to games, sponsors can, and some have, drop their contracts, players can get out of contracts.
Listen to the rest below.
Cross posted at Wake up America
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