Venezuela: Seizing corn meal an option [price controls and communism]

Business Week/Associated Press ^ | January 17, 2006

[1rudeboy]

[hedgetrimmer]

I should never have allowed you to con me away from a discussion of ideas and suck me into a contest of personalities with this silly "loyalty" schtick in the first place

Thats an odd thing to say because no one was even talking to you on this thread.

[Lazamataz]

Seizing corn meal an option

Not really. It tends to run through your fingers.

[expat_panama]

That is a classic! Seems like maybe once or twice a year I see something so great I print it out and paste it on the wall ---that was it!

[1rudeboy]

I believe it originally appeared in New Yorker magazine a number of years ago, and yes, it is a classic. Google the phrase if you have some idle time.

[OKIEDOC]

All except Colombia seem hell bent on following the easy road to socialism.

They all want governments like North Korea where people are selectively starved to death for the good of the state.

[Rocky]

Another Robert Mugabe.

Will these idiots never learn from history?

[1rudeboy]

Have you ever seen this one? Given the political-predisposition of the author, it's funny on a number of levels.

[kenavi]

We have to continue to push for free trade the world over.

I'd settle for us practicing it ourselves.

[expat_panama]

Google the phrase if you have some idle time. 

Personally, I never have time for idle activities.  Then again, this is important. 

Wow-- 31,000 links-- seems that cartoon first came out way back in 1993, thirteen years ago-- where have I been!   One of the links went to a chilling thought from an advertising company-- "They may not know you're a dog but they do know when and where you last bought dog food from and how much you paid."

[proud_yank]

Oh my. My Dad works out of Chicago, and has an undying love for Daley! /sarc

[george wythe]

From the Chinese constitution, BTW

Article 6 [Socialist Public Ownership] (1) The basis of the socialist economic system of the People's Republic of China is socialist public ownership of the means of production, namely, ownership by the whole people and collective ownership by the working people. The system of socialist public ownership supersedes the system of exploitation of man by man; it applies the principle of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his work".

Are you serious? Do you really believe that the Chinese government adheres to the Chinese constitution?

Do you really believe that there is "freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration" in China because the Chinese constitution says so?

I thought you were a serious poster.

Let me repeat my previous position:

Red China and Vietnam rejected the main tenet of communist economic theory, the need for banning private property. Therefore, those countries are something other than communist in their economic policies.

The Communist Manifest, Lenin's tenets, and the Chinese Constitution have been rejected the the current Chinese leadership.

Private property is allowed in China, from kiosks selling CDs to huge factories. And by definition, private property is incompatible with communism.