A short spoken monologue (YouTube video) by Mark Hamilton arguing that increasing government coercion leads to poverty. The speaker cites Venezuela—which he says once had a standard of living similar to the U.S. but now suffers food shortages and weight loss among people—as a primary example, and warns that America could follow the same path.
You go back through history and you see that civilizations as they get more initiatory force in the government and more such as, let's take Venezuela is always in the news lately. It used to have a standard of living pretty much like America, like the United States of America. But look at it now and what happened in that time. More and more initiatory force with the dictator, more and more freedom stripped from the people. And look at the poverty now. People are losing weight because they don't have enough food to eat. And unfortunately, I feel America could be moving in that direction too.
