MrRodgers
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Pure capitalism does not work because you get recessions and depressions and boom times when everything goes well. I don't think socialism or communism work by either. The best economy is a mixed economy with steady growth and a little bit of everything.
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Unless Venezuela has the type of expertise to operate equipment like this, and I'm sure other sectors too, they are cutting their own throats. Philosophy is one thing, stupidity is another.
Some people think Obama is a Socialist. They obviously don't know what a Socialist is. Chavez is a Socialist. He is just not a smart one.
Bill
Venezuela seizes oil rigs owned by US company
Venezuela's government has seized control of 11 oil rigs owned by U.S. driller Helmerich & Payne, which shut them down because the state oil company was behind on payments.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100624/ap_on_bi_ge/lt_venezuela_oil_rigs_2
Some people think Obama is a Communist. Other people think Obama is a Marxist. Still other people think Obama is a Socialist. To each their own. The only thing that matters to real true Americans is that no one thinks Obama is a Capitalist.
Yes, there is a great and very purposeful changing of the definition of these words so that we can have that mixed economy. We have a MIXED economy now...and have had for 50 years.
It's most accurately called:
Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. Heads they win...tails we lose. The 'people' are too small for anybody in power...ANYBODY in power to give a flying fuck. The capitalists...are too big to fail.
Notice how institutions economic and govt....never fail...too big to fail...the great citizenry (labor) can make me a profit or got to hell. (die or jail)
Chavez is an authoritarian dreaming of fascism using socialist rhetoric to suggest he knows better how to redistribute wealth, when like most leaders throughout the world...are just thieves. America, Russia, China, N. Korea, S. Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, UK, Venezuela, Mexico..the list goes on and on.
Oh, the citizenry and labor get fucked.
Most leaders throughout the world are exercising what most leaders throughout history have done...consolidate power, enrich themselves and their friends while in power. They violate laws, get clean away with it and further enslave and impoverish their people.
Look at the so-called irreparable harm the oil-drilling moratorium inflicted on corporate America.
Know what that so-called irreparable harm...is ? Why of course, their entitlement to a profit. Didn't you know kinkroids that the capitalist is entitled to drill oil and make profits even if it kills people and despoils the property in the case of these accidents.
When will the courts order defective airplanes back into the air ? After all, aren't the airlines equally entitled to make a profit even if a few hundred die because say a engine might fall off ?
Notice how we now allow Mexican trucks on our highways...nowhere near meeting our safety standards. Who cares if a few 100 or 1000 die in the oncoming slaughter some predict for our highways.
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