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Hugo Chavez’s economic miracle
Salon ^ | March 6, 2013 | Dave Sirota

Posted on 09/29/2017 9:36:48 PM PDT by Bon mots

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21 posted on 09/29/2017 11:12:39 PM PDT by aquila48
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Rich Eating Well in Venezuela, Basque Executive Shows
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3435902/posts


22 posted on 09/30/2017 12:18:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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A gold plated Ferrari?

Well, one of Maduro’s kids is doing all right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55CsexK1acU


23 posted on 09/30/2017 1:13:42 AM PDT by Doctor DNA
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Total buffoon. In his perfect world, he would head up the Ministry of Truth.


24 posted on 09/30/2017 1:24:19 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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His rein also coincided with a boom in violent crime.

Does the author of this piece really not know the difference between "rein" and "reign?"

Regards,

25 posted on 09/30/2017 1:30:41 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Salon: We love Communism!


26 posted on 09/30/2017 1:41:59 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: Bon mots

Dave Sirota (author of Salon article) needs to have his brain preserved for science. It could be preserved in the “Neanderthal Leftist Intellectual” section of the lab. :-)


27 posted on 09/30/2017 3:27:14 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Just yesterday it was revealed that on October 1st, they will be out of gasoline and diesel because they won’t pay the shipping companies to haul their oil around to be refined and shipped back. Geez, what a resounding economic success!


28 posted on 09/30/2017 3:29:06 AM PDT by mazda77
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It is truly sickening and utterly disheartening to consider that many, many millions of our own countrymen continue to take the ravings of this utter azzzhole seriously.


29 posted on 09/30/2017 3:38:29 AM PDT by DrPretorius
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To: AnotherUnixGeek; Bon mots; Uncle Sam 911
Socialism is on the right side of history. You people are just too ignorant of history, economics and politics to understand it. It's not that Communism doesn't work, it's just that it's never been tried. And sooner or later, standing atop a pile of over 100 million corpses, someone's going to get it right, I swear.

(Do I REALLY need the /sarc tag>)

30 posted on 09/30/2017 4:17:06 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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Nicely done, worth bringing to the fore.


31 posted on 09/30/2017 4:44:08 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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My dozens of Venezolano friends whose lives and livelihoods have been destroyed wou!d beg to differ with Salon...


32 posted on 09/30/2017 5:27:34 AM PDT by jagusafr
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Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy notes, "Venezuela is recognized by many scholars to be more democratic than it was in the pre-Chávez era"

Isn't that like saying "he beats his wife less now than he did before"?

33 posted on 09/30/2017 5:33:16 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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Eventually when no one is left, it may be the way to go!


34 posted on 09/30/2017 5:48:55 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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Hugo Chavez’s economic miracle

...and then they ran out of other people's money.

35 posted on 09/30/2017 6:03:58 AM PDT by Magnatron
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The article is from 2013.

It was clear that Chavez was going to be trouble for Venezuela from early on. But, it isn’t clear in my memory exactly when things got really, really obviously and undeniably bad. By the time Chavez died and Maduro took over, the situation was desperate.

So, I looked up Maduro in Wikipedia, and it says he was inaugurated in April 2013, a month after Maduro’s death.

So, the author is a friggin’ idiot of the first order, since the outcome of Chavez’ policies was well known by 2013, at the time of writing.


36 posted on 09/30/2017 6:28:51 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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This quote is actually still up on his Senate.gov web page. Click the image to see it's there before it disappears.

Had to believe that he can still leave that up there in 2017 in light of the monumental failure that is Venezuelan Socialism.

37 posted on 09/30/2017 9:36:50 AM PDT by Bon mots (Laughing at liberal tears!)
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Bernie, like Hillary, appears to be entertaining DEMENTIA!


38 posted on 09/30/2017 9:38:10 AM PDT by Ambrosia
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Great find! Stashed away, and I thank you.

What Huey did pull off was pretty amazing, but not in the way the author was gushing over. It's tough to take a first-world country to starvation in only 18 years in the absence of a shooting war, but he managed it.

39 posted on 09/30/2017 9:45:10 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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Can that Bernie article be shared on facebook? I’m proudly knowledgeable of fb.


40 posted on 09/30/2017 12:25:45 PM PDT by gbaker
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