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I suspect he doesn't give a fuck about economics, only about making himself look good to the poor fools who keep voting him in. If that means making their lives worse, so be it.

so, basically, he's either an idiot or an asshole or both?!

HollisHurlbut wrote:

Were I a foreign corporation with infrastructure in Venezuela, I'd strongly consider some drastic action.  Many who have paid attention to the news over the last year or so have heard of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and would know what "going Galt" entails.  Without spoiling the book, I can't go into further details, but those who have read it will probably know what I mean when I suggest such corporations should think hard about making preparations to "go d'Anconia" in case they are suddenly nationalized by Chavez's revolution of stupidity.

Any Corp that "goes Galt" in Venezuela would just give him a reason to take over their corporation and since companies are mainly focused on making money, you will not get all the corporation in Venezuela to sign onto that and you will have a few companies that would look at all the other going on strike and seize the chance to gobble up more business and favor with the government by propping up the country.

The best thing would probably to just have a coup and kill Chavez.
Should get the CIA on that.

Chavez is Nuts... looking forward to when the people take back their country.

Van Jones should move there

I thought socialism was the hip thing to do now-a-days.

Turquoise wrote:

{M5}Sniper3 wrote:

I thought socialism was the hip thing to do now-a-days.

What Chavez practices more closely resembles communism rather than socialism.

And that has worked out so very nicely for those who practice it...

FEOS wrote:

Turquoise wrote:

{M5}Sniper3 wrote:

I thought socialism was the hip thing to do now-a-days.

What Chavez practices more closely resembles communism rather than socialism.

And that has worked out so very nicely for those who practice it...

Yep...  it's pretty fucked up, but the only reason someone like Chavez rises to power in a given country is because the predecessors are usually equally bad if not worse, but they tend to favor the rich rather than the working class.

For example, look at the government that preceded Castro.  It doesn't mean that communism is the answer, but these things have a context.

The most productive way to prevent communism from taking over a country is to improve the quality of life for the average person via a combination of industrial investment and governmental programs designed to give the poor more economic mobility.

In short, socialism + compassionate capitalism prevents labor revolts and such.

Unfortunately, Central and South American countries often go from one extreme to another due to a combination of bad leadership and outside meddling (from various countries including us).