Bolivians sick of greedy corporations.

Bolivia is experiencing what can happen when key industries are left to greedy private corporations. Tens of thousands of Bolivians marched in the streets recently to demand their natural gas industry be nationalized. They were fed up with the greed of privatization and corporate exploitation.

Could South America be to free market capitalism what Poland was to the communist workers' paradise? The Soviets were infuriated that Poland became a hotbed of worker unrest and demands for reform. It was a black-eye for the USSR who preached that communism was the ideal economy for workers. Nowadays in South America, nations such as Bolivia, Argentina, and Venezuela have enacted socialist-style policies to rectify the problems caused by corporate profiteering at the expense of public need.

Hopefully some of that thinking will spill over into North America. The threat of nationalizing industries would scare the bejeezus out of our own corporations by letting them know we won't put up with their schemes and exploitations. And it just might get us some gas pump relief. We know they can charge less, because we know they're raking in record profits.