Well, first thing: i perfectly understand your point, and can be perfectly valid for many regions/countries in the world, of course lazy people always gonna try to find the "easiest way", what I am trying to explain to you is: you can't take that real fact and apply it to any other country in the region. Basically what you and the people in those video are doing, is taking the examples of countries where the socialism was imposed by force (like Venezuela), and not in a democratic way, and telling you "Yeah, this is what socialism basically is", and that's wrong: you can't take the Venezuelan example, and say that is (or can be), the situation of all the region, that's the reason why they aren't putting examples of others south american countries; and finally, to going in depth with theory vs practice: i tried to understand almost all the John Stossel's video, very interesting, but inaccurate, why? he is telling that the people can have the possibilities to resolve their problems without Government help, and again, thats can be true in countries with a huge economy like USA or UK, or even Spain, but this is not applicable (for eg) to countries with minor economies and 30% of their population historically below the poverty line, why isn't applicable? simple: you first need economic grow, how? offer and demand: how you expect that all 30% of that population spent money if they aren't winning a decent salary or are unemployed? in many countries of south america, if you are an indigent living in the street, you probably gonna die, sorry for the hard words, but is true. most of the people close to that situation try to get out fastly BEFORE to finish there, but they can't always do it, and finally, if as government you don't do anything and apply the "Stossel rule" (can we call her that?), the population gonna beggins to literally die in the streets, and the other 65% of the people will going for your head...
