Birds Of A Feather

Nicolas Maduro (Reuters / Carlos Garcia Rawlins)

On November 15, 2013 Nicolas Maduro, the President of Venezuela and an avowed Marxist, was granted the power to rule by decree.

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On January 14, 2014 Barack Obama, the President of the United States and a de facto Marxist, granted himself the power to rule by decree, saying: "I've got a pen and I've got a phone."

On November 22, 2013 the Washington Times reported that President Maduro "issued a decree that profit margins can be limited." The Washington Post reported:

Earlier this month, after railing against “bourgeois parasites,” Maduro ordered troops to take over a major electronics store chain and force managers to sell goods ranging from plasma TVs to stereos at bargain-basement prices.

On February 12, 2014 President Obama issued a decree that the minimum wage for federal contractors be increased to $10.10 an hour. On February 18, 2014 the White House blog stated that the minimum wage increase mandated by the President would not cause unemployment if the nation's bourgeois parasites lowered their profit margins:

In addition, businesses can adjust in other ways rather than reducing employment (for example, by accepting lower profit margins).