A recent headline read, “In Venezuela, no toilet paper and now lousy phone service.” A couple of days before, Yahoo news had “Venezuela to ration malls, change clocks, to save power.”

Bernie Sanders says we can have socialism like Norway. Hillary Clinton pretty much agrees. Who in our government do you trust to lead more socialism in the U.S.? I bet we would eventually be more like Venezuela than Norway.

Mike McConnell
Gainesville

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