Posted on 04/20/2017 8:17:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“It’s a real shame about those explosive charges that are the icky things we left at the plant. Oh, didn’t you know all auto plants have explosives as part of their normal operations?”
GM can build its cars in the USA, and Venezuela can be left alone to learn what happens when you vote in a socialist gubmint. Only socialism could parley worlds biggest oil reserves into mass starvation of its people, and complete chaos.
We've joked, I know, about AS losing its fictional status, but this stuff is a little scary. We learn here that the Venezuelan government has seized GM's "assets" in that country, but it really hasn't, it's only seized anything that might remotely yield a fast buck. The assets consisted of a production line and skilled workers capable of using it and generating wealth in the form of (gasp!) profit. Which not only fed those people but fed the government as well in the form of tax revenue. Now both are starving. This is "end-point" socialism.
Cuba, and now this. And still the idiots on college campuses and editorial desks clamor for our own version. They should be careful what they wish for.
Rearden Steel is nationalized as the property of a deserter. People from the Boyle faction and Meigs faction fail to get the plant to produce, so they settle for looting the company and shipping its physical plant to friends in Europe and Latin America.
If they are, at least they’ll be killing each other.
Birds of a feather...
In other news: In honor of Aaron Hernandez, I cooked and smoked meth today. Then got into a fight with some guy who spilled a drink on me.
This would have been Chile’s fate had Pinochet not rid his country of Allende’s socialist thugs. He made the hard decisions to save his country and was vilified by western hypocrites who didn’t lift a finger to prevent a socialist catastrophe. He’ll always be in my pantheon of great leaders.
Aaaaaaand....that’s what happens when companies go outside the country to manufacture goods. They lost some major profits today!
Exactly!
Ayn Rand was SO ahead of her time.
Of course, she’d already seen what socialism did to her country.
Excellent point Sweetest Luv W.
The "Cheaper Labor Costs" and all that Jazz sure doesn't turn out a profit when everything is seized and you don't have the Legal Protections like you do here in The States.
They haven’t a clue about business models. They think those cars just make themselves. So they’ll wonder why they aren’t still doing it for them. Libs of all sorts are just a special kind of stupid.
Well, it is Government Motors isn’t it? It’s just a matter of which government.
An Venezuela didn’t even have the common courtesy of giving them a bailout at taxpayers expense.
Some dude tried to sell me heroin yesterday, he said he “wanted to do business” with me and asked if “do blows”. He looked more like a drug dealer than a gay prostitute and sure enough I googled “blows” (plural) and it’s “Chicago slang” for H. Gas station/convenience store parking lot, 2/3 blocks from a grade school. I told the cashier, I hope he called the police.
Interesting. Sounds like a “Huggy Bear” situation. http://rebelcat4.tripod.com/id209.html
You handled yourself very well.
Side note: I’ve started using both cocaine and meth and I’m very happy.
Soooo...
Now they have a car factory. What are they going to do with it?
Sell it for scrap?
I am pretty sure they don’t know how to run it, and that they can’t supply it.
Yeah well my heart bleeds for GM.
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