Looks like one of those "neo-liberal" Kerry Ketchup plants is going down.
To: Chi-townChief
And Chavez won't stop until Venezuela is as "rich" as Cuba.
2 posted on
09/08/2005 4:15:40 PM PDT by
SIDENET
("Most of us live... ...two weeks from cannibalism." -- words of wisdom from DU)
To: Chi-townChief
There was a story on Bloomberg the other day (which we can't post here) that one of the factories being seized is a Heinz factory.
3 posted on
09/08/2005 4:16:36 PM PDT by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: Chi-townChief
---Regarding the lawfulness of these moves, the national coordinator of UNT claimed that "we seize the plant first, and then try to solve the issue of ownership, as there is always a reason for takeover."---
The reason always used "Hugo wants it".
4 posted on
09/08/2005 4:17:36 PM PDT by
flashbunny
(Why do I have to defend the free market on a web site called free republic???)
To: Chi-townChief
Well crap. I kinda liked buying Citgo gas.
5 posted on
09/08/2005 4:18:34 PM PDT by
GBA
To: Chi-townChief
Wasn't Jesse Jackson just down there kissing this guys butt?
8 posted on
09/08/2005 4:20:04 PM PDT by
martinidon
(Bush won sKerry lost and Soro's is out millions for nothing!)
To: Chi-townChief
Well... Kerry wanted the UN to handle Iraq. The UN can handle is Ketchup plant.
Could this have possibly been an outsourced plant? NOOOO.
To: Chi-townChief
Zim farms go industrial.
To: Chi-townChief
Is Willie Green his economics czar?
13 posted on
09/08/2005 4:28:11 PM PDT by
.cnI redruM
("No wonder [Bob Denver's] dead. Bush left him on that island." -NRO)
To: Chi-townChief
"we seize the plant first, and then try to solve the issue of ownership, as there is always a reason for takeover."
In other words, the ends justifies the means.
The people of Venezuela better wise up soon or they will be suffering from a communist dictatorship for a long time.
14 posted on
09/08/2005 4:28:39 PM PDT by
adorno
To: Chi-townChief
I'm thinking they mean "neo-liberal" in the European sense, i.e. someone with a respect for property rights.
It's amusing to see the steady, predictable progress of Chavez along long-discredited lines of socialist economic practice. Venezuela had a fairly diverse economy before Chavez came along. His plan, like every socialist before him, is to steal what can be stolen and milk what can be milked. Oil can be milked for a very long time, but that limits Venezuela's economic development to that of an extraction economy.
There are advantages to this from a socialist point of view - an extraction economy is easy to control and to direct its surpluses toward Party goals. The disadvantage is that if oil fails the country has no recourse and instantly becomes an economic basket case. What happens next after that is what has happened with the failure of agriculture in Zimbabwe - dwindling surpluses will be expropriated by the state and doled out to fewer and fewer people. The rest will do without.
To: Chi-townChief
More looting.
16 posted on
09/08/2005 4:37:20 PM PDT by
Montfort
(The looting has only just begun. Now it is Congress' turn to loot.)
To: Chi-townChief
Oh yeah, nationalizing private industry has worked quite well in the past. I smell a dictator.
20 posted on
09/08/2005 5:00:06 PM PDT by
crazyhorse691
( Heaven on Earth is where the nearest Starbucks is 60 miles away.)
To: Chi-townChief
Well, welcome to the communist socialist agenda.
To: Chi-townChief
Just like when Castro got started. No one wanted to call it the "C" word but everyone knew that's what it was.
24 posted on
09/08/2005 5:20:10 PM PDT by
GOP_1900AD
(Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
To: Chi-townChief
Now watch as Venezuela's economy and social structures begin swirling 'round the toilet bowl.
Foreign investment begins to disappear in 3... 2... 1...
27 posted on
09/08/2005 6:33:19 PM PDT by
FierceDraka
(The Democratic Party - Aiding and Abetting The Enemies of America Since 1968)
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