On Monday, shortly after endorsing socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) for president, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) gave an interview with the candidate at Brightmoor Food Pantry in Detroit, MI, seemingly unaware of her surroundings.
Sanders and Tlaib gave an interview in front of empty grocery shelves, which heavily mirrors scenes found in impoverished socialist countries, such as Venezuela, where stores have been picked clean for anything resembling nourishment.
According to an NPR story on the devastated country tells the story of young parents Anny Valero and Yossmy Benaventi, who were able to buy a small number of necessities from a Venezuelan grocery store. To buy their baby pampers, detergent, and a few other items, they were forced to produce their son’s birth certificate to prove the baby was theirs and that they really did need the diapers.
The vast socialist policies proposed by Sanders include taxpayer-funded health care, college, housing, daycare, and many other pie-in-the-sky initiatives. According to AEI, Bernie’s crazy pipe dreams would cost the American taxpayers $30 trillion.
The U.S. Government takes in approximately $7.13 trillion per year, including state and federal revenue, which would not even satisfy a third of Bernie’s promises, if we devoted the entire pot to these initiatives, meaning investing literally nothing in any other government-run service, facility, or any other type of program.
So, Tlaib and Sanders’ foreshadowing of empty grocery shelves is very much a visual representation of the devastation that will come to America, just as it has to countries who caved to the empty promises of “free” stuff. Someone has to pay for it.