KD in CA Posted March 30, 2018 Posted March 30, 2018 9 hours ago, TPS said: Viva la revolucion!!!! Admittedly you weren't a full throated fan of Comrade Hugo like chicot was, but you were a little slow on the critique when he abolished their democracy! p.s. to gator -- Thanks for showing up and reminding everyone what a !@#$ing idiot you are!
/dev/null Posted March 31, 2018 Author Posted March 31, 2018 At least they still have free health care! http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article207281029.html
sherpa Posted March 31, 2018 Posted March 31, 2018 3 hours ago, /dev/null said: At least they still have free health care! http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article207281029.html The universal healthcare promise from Chavez was a scam from the beginning, as were all his programs. They imported Cuban "doctors," housed them in an old beach resort, and operated from there. Nobody had any idea what their qualifications were, and of course, by now it doesn't matter. Just a total economic, political and social tragedy, brought about by the "Bolivarian Revolution," a Chavez fantasy modeled after all things, Cuba. What could go wrong? 1
/dev/null Posted March 31, 2018 Author Posted March 31, 2018 I'm about to make a meme for another thread but had to share this little gem on the front page of imgflip 3
Cinga Posted March 31, 2018 Posted March 31, 2018 On 3/29/2018 at 4:10 PM, Tiberius said: Sounds like a lot of right wing dictatorships also. Can you name all these right wing dictatorships?
Nanker Posted March 31, 2018 Posted March 31, 2018 The USA Canada Mexico Great Britain France Germany Italy Spain Luxembourg 1 1
/dev/null Posted June 3, 2018 Author Posted June 3, 2018 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12064165
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted June 3, 2018 Posted June 3, 2018 On 3/30/2018 at 1:17 AM, KD in CA said: Admittedly you weren't a full throated fan of Comrade Hugo like chicot was, but you were a little slow on the critique when he abolished their democracy! p.s. to gator -- Thanks for showing up and reminding everyone what a !@#$ing idiot you are! You know it’s bad when you miss chicot. How about we resurrect des while we’re at it? Or maybe tbone.
TakeYouToTasker Posted June 11, 2018 Posted June 11, 2018 (edited) Venezuela's Long Road to Ruin. A quality Op-Ed from the WSJ. Quote Word from Caracas is that locals have taken to scouring city streets for plastic garbage bags full of rubbish and, when they find them, emptying the contents so that they can resell the bags. This sounds absurd, but it is believable in a country where extreme poverty has spread like the plague. Human capital is fleeing. Oil production is plummeting, and the state-owned oil company is in default. The garbage bag, imported with dollars, is a thing of value. If anything was more predictable than the mess created by Hugo Chávez’s Marxist Bolivarian Revolution, it is the pathetic effort by socialists to deny responsibility. The Socialist Party of Great Britain tweeted recently that Venezuela’s problem is that socialism has yet to be tried. It blamed the crisis on “a profit-driven capitalist economy under leftist state-control.” Even more preposterous is the claim by some academics that economic liberalism in the 1980s spawned the socialism that has destroyed the country. Learning from history is impossible if the narrative is wrong. So let’s clear the record: By the time Chávez was elected, Venezuela already had 40 years of socialism under its belt and precious little, if any, experience with free markets. Edited June 11, 2018 by TakeYouToTasker
row_33 Posted June 11, 2018 Posted June 11, 2018 you take over a country with a lot of untapped natural resources you announce you will save the country by exploiting the resources The Economist, for the 59th straight time, announces a business paradise based on this model turns out the government for the 59th straight time borrowed billions on the resources and put it into off-shore accounts, not a penny spent on development waiting for The Economist to at least say they were wrong or at least not do this for the 60th through 139th straight time this was 100% foreseeable.
DC Tom Posted June 11, 2018 Posted June 11, 2018 1 hour ago, TakeYouToTasker said: Venezuela's Long Road to Ruin. A quality Op-Ed from the WSJ. I consistently wonder why it's called the "No True Scotsman" fallacy, and not the "No True Socialism" fallacy.
B-Man Posted June 11, 2018 Posted June 11, 2018 NOW THAT’S REAL SOCIALISM: Polio Returns to Venezuela as Economic Crisis Cripples Healthcare System. This is Newsweek, so of course...................the word Socialism does not appear anywhere in the article.
TakeYouToTasker Posted June 11, 2018 Posted June 11, 2018 9 minutes ago, B-Man said: NOW THAT’S REAL SOCIALISM: Polio Returns to Venezuela as Economic Crisis Cripples Healthcare System. This is Newsweek, so of course...................the word Socialism does not appear anywhere in the article. Yes, but they can contract polio for free. 1
GG Posted June 18, 2018 Posted June 18, 2018 Hey remember when Nicaragua tossed out the socialists and started to regain a sense of stability and economic growth, and then the socialists came back? But, I know. Socialism has never really been tried.
DC Tom Posted June 18, 2018 Posted June 18, 2018 4 minutes ago, GG said: Hey remember when Nicaragua tossed out the socialists and started to regain a sense of stability and economic growth, and then the socialists came back? But, I know. Socialism has never really been tried. It's America's fault. If only our capitalism would stop preventing socialism, then socialism would work.
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted June 18, 2018 Posted June 18, 2018 On 3/28/2018 at 3:35 PM, TakeYouToTasker said: Poverty exists on a wide scale because Peru has only recently (in the 1990's) thrown off their centrally planned economy. Since they have, it has been one of the most steadily growing economies in the world, with it's inhabitants standard of living considered "upper-middle" globally. Only 10% of their population lives in what the World Bank describes as extreme poverty. This is markedly different than what Venezuela is experiencing. 10%? tell you what. You fly down there and drive across the country of Peru. Steadily growing does not equate to a low poverty state.
DC Tom Posted June 18, 2018 Posted June 18, 2018 16 minutes ago, ShadyBillsFan said: 10%? tell you what. You fly down there and drive across the country of Peru. Steadily growing does not equate to a low poverty state. I believe they refer to those poor, ignored regions bypassed by economic growth as "flyover country." What's Spanish for "basket of deplorables?"
TakeYouToTasker Posted June 18, 2018 Posted June 18, 2018 23 minutes ago, ShadyBillsFan said: 10%? tell you what. You fly down there and drive across the country of Peru. Steadily growing does not equate to a low poverty state. Yes, 10 percent, and I sourced the data to the World Bank's own reporting for you.
Azalin Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 13 hours ago, DC Tom said: What's Spanish for "basket of deplorables?" I believe it would be cangilon de mierda. 1
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