There are too many articles that highlight what happens when government moves to fascist actions, national socialism. But Venezula certainly is the poster child.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2010/12/hugo_ch%C3%A1vezs_venezuela
Investors Business Daily, “Socialist Venezuela Feels the Bern”.
The voting and poll data shows the younger you are the more you think socialism is a good thing, whether at the extreme like Venezuela and Cuba or more soft like Denmark. Do some reading, please, and ask, do you trust the government to do better with your money, than you do? Margaret Thatcher famously said, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”