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Venezuela: Seizing corn meal an option [price controls and communism]
Business Week/Associated Press ^
| January 17, 2006
Posted on 01/17/2006 3:25:10 PM PST by grundle
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posted on
01/17/2006 3:25:12 PM PST
by
grundle
To: grundle
Yep, that'll work. It worked in,.... uh,....
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posted on
01/17/2006 3:26:59 PM PST
by
msnimje
(Senate Democrats ----------- Sound and Fury Signifying INSIGNIFICANCE)
To: grundle
Much of South America seems to be following this road to disaster.
To: grundle
Yes, we have no bananas.
To: grundle
Of course, and the Soviet Union proved how well centralized control works. This just in...the Soviet Union collapsed.
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posted on
01/17/2006 3:28:19 PM PST
by
highlander_UW
(I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
To: grundle
Arepas
To: grundle
stuffed arepas
To: grundle
I see that Chavez has hired Willie Green as his economic advisor.
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posted on
01/17/2006 3:30:07 PM PST
by
Skylab
To: grundle
........President Hugo Chavez says he is leading a socialist revolution for the poor. Yeah! Right!
Same old story.....
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posted on
01/17/2006 3:30:58 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
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To: conservativecorner
If Chile can hang on, they could become the Hong Kong of South America, and hopefully show the rest the way. But Chavez and all the other little Fidels will do everything they can to bring Chile down.
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posted on
01/17/2006 3:32:01 PM PST
by
oldleft
To: Skylab
I thought he hired that bum Harry Belefonte.
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posted on
01/17/2006 3:32:32 PM PST
by
infidel dog
(nearer my God to thee....)
To: grundle
We have to continue to push for free trade the world over.
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posted on
01/17/2006 3:34:29 PM PST
by
Jaysun
(The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides.)
To: infidel dog
price controls = shortage
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posted on
01/17/2006 3:34:48 PM PST
by
pointsal
To: pointsal
red tide rising in the south
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posted on
01/17/2006 3:35:23 PM PST
by
vrwc0915
("Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants,)
To: grundle
"I don't think it's necessary to go straight to expropriation, but it's an option," Food Minister Rafael Oropeza told reporters during a tour of state-operated grain silos in the southwestern state of Barinas.
He said the government is prepared "to defend the right of access to food."
And naturally, if you have a right to access food, why
naturally you must access the labor needed to grow it.
Venezeula, the Zimbabwe of south america!
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posted on
01/17/2006 3:36:41 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: pointsal
price controls = shortage Economics 101. :-)
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posted on
01/17/2006 3:37:09 PM PST
by
commish
(Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
To: grundle
The grabbing of supplies will work in the short term. Just wait until the domestic production of food stuffs falls right off the charts. It's the inevitable outcome of economic engineering by commies. Just look at Zimbabwe.
To: grundle
Price controls works. . . if you want to create artificial scarcity.
Only a harebrained dictator can create corn scarcity in an oil-rich country, with the oil barrel over $60.
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posted on
01/17/2006 3:44:19 PM PST
by
daivid
To: hedgetrimmer; Toddsterpatriot
Oh that silly Bolivarian "free-trader" Chavez. What silly free-market scheme will he think of next?
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posted on
01/17/2006 3:46:31 PM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: Zuben Elgenubi
Got a pic of a grass-and-weed arepa? That's what V is going to.
Hace muchisimo tiempo desde comi una areapa.
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posted on
01/17/2006 3:52:33 PM PST
by
Fudd
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