Holiday and Zimbabwe

I have decided to take a few days off. I have a million things to do, and family and friends to attend to. I will be back soon. A final thought before I turn off the computer:

Yesterday I read a newspaper article about Zimbabwe under president Robert Mugabe. The paper listed some facts about the country. After decades of socialist ”reforms”, Zimbabwe now has the highest inflation rate in the world (4,500%), and nowhere are there as many unemployed people (80%). Astonishing figures, don’t you think? It makes me think. I have really tried hard do find one, but it seems to me that socialism cannot produce a single successful example. Ironically, despite evidence of the contrary, the Socialist Left in Sweden and Europe still think height-inflation politics would combat unemployment.

Some people simply refuse to learn. Irritating as this stubborn stupidity is, in a liberal society we have to live with that.