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It can be done. - 1/28/2016 1:56:22 PM

mnottertail

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http://www.commondreams.org/views/2012/01/26/how-swedes-and-norwegians-broke-power-1-percent?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork

These countries cleaned out the nutsuckers from their countries. They now have conservatives in government.

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RE: It can be done. - 1/28/2016 3:14:35 PM

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Oh poppycock.

3 million people have an oil endowment of almost a trillion euros. Protected by nato and buffered by an oil economy you can't really credit their economic success to their economic policies., any more than you can credit the house of saud for theirs.

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RE: It can be done. - 1/28/2016 6:47:59 PM

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Oh poppycock.

3 million people have an oil endowment of almost a trillion euros. Protected by nato and buffered by an oil economy you can't really credit their economic success to their economic policies., any more than you can credit the house of saud for theirs.

I imagine it's also much easier to control an economy when your entire national population is barely equal to one major American city.

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RE: It can be done. - 1/29/2016 1:13:03 AM

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Actual countries that have done it are Iceland and Hungary. Iceland went so far as to put some bankers and politicians in prison, and I think Hungary threw a couple in after being overheard how they fucked the government. A few years ago IIRC they used a bailout or loan from the government to buy their own stock and make it seem like the place was in good shape, of course to attract investors to get fleeced. That wouldn't happen in the US, quantitative easing takes care of that on the fast track.

Also note that the US has oil as well as a bunch of natural resources, but we never see a fucking dime of that money.

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RE: It can be done. - 1/29/2016 5:21:29 AM

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We should sit on our oil as a long term negotiating tool so OPAC can't flex muscle, instead we give it to foreign companies to pay taxes on it in other countries

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RE: It can be done. - 1/29/2016 7:17:49 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Phydeaux

Oh poppycock.

3 million people have an oil endowment of almost a trillion euros. Protected by nato and buffered by an oil economy you can't really credit their economic success to their economic policies., any more than you can credit the house of saud for theirs.

Yeah, typical nutsucker asswipe. It didnt happen only in Norway. However, we have how much oil on the lands of our citizenry? How much oil in the coasts of America? We have how much timber on the lands of our citizenry? We have how many deadbeat ranchers who havent paid rent on the lands of our citizenry? We have how many nutsuckers that are corporate catamites to the detriment of our citizenry?

Ad Nauseam.

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