Venezuela jails 100 'bourgeois' businessmen in crackdown

Posted by Eudaimonia 11 years, 5 months ago to Politics
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  • Posted by spark- 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance." -John Philpot Curran
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    they're long and brown ;)
    right now he's enjoying Santa Claras II from Vera Cruz Mexico. They come in a pretty box I am eyeing for my own
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Nobody could have made them better because it's the same distinction between a nit and a louse.

    My father was fond of saying, "You can't get a man to eat a whole can of peas all at once. But you can get him to eat a whole can of peas, one pea at a time."

    The left has used that tactic to reshape the minds and character of the U.S. for nearly a century now. The war on tobacco is a fine example of it at work in microcosm, if anyone would freaking PAY ATTENTION.

    "Keynesian economics" is just a roadsign on the superhighway to Marxism.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There are one of two possibilities; you were born yesterday, or, like a goose, you wake up in a new world every day.

    Or maybe you were asleep the day they taught history in school.

    As Dr Floyd Ferret said, times change. There was a time before Keynesian economics, there will be a time after it; hopefully that time won't be Marxist, but before the Marxists took over, wherever they took over, they were "reasonable", too.

    When the Viet Cong was formed, only a small minority was communist. But, they played faction against faction, until, by the end, the communists were left in charge. (That only ended thanks to the United States military and the insane foolishness of the Tet offensive.)

    TODAY it operates on Keynesian economics. Yesterday it operated on free-market capitalism. Tomorrow it may well fail-to-operate on Marxism.

    Which seems darned likely, since you can't get much more Marxist than Obamacare.

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  • Posted by Zenphamy 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree very much, sir. It seems that many in the US are trying very hard to hang on to a dream of the past and a hope that it's just this one president. Just to think about all of the regulations to satisfy and hoops to jump through before making the first sale in a new business in today's US is nightmarish. Who really owns and runs the business after all of that?

    It seems that our political correctness has progressed to the s##ialist word as well.

    KYFHO
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    lol. I would want 40-shipped by the 18th of December- $ let's see what expertise ya got ;)
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 5 months ago
    hey Euda. where ya been? can you put together a gulch package of cigars for christmas? hand picked and shipped state side?
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  • Posted by 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It took two "presidents" to "transform" Venezuela from a functioning state to a Communist shit hole.

    Our current "president" is an emergent Chavez.
    He and Hugo shook hands as a matter of fact.
    Our Maduro can't be far behind.

    I would argue that the nationalization of Auto Industries and Health Care is far more Marxist than Keynesian.
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  • Posted by 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Taking care of my father-in-law and trying to finish my book.

    I saw this article though and just couldn't pass it up.

    We have Obama morphing daily into our Chavez.
    Can our Maduro be too far behind?
    I think not.

    I guess I could set up some cigars.
    Who would want them?
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Haha, there may be a good argument there. I wasn't trying to defend Keynesianism, just simply pointing out that it's very different from Marxism, and doesn't come with the same risks.

    Now if we want to make an argument against Keynesianism, we can certainly do that, but we should do it from the perspective that Keynesianism is merely counter-productive and inhibits progress, rather than painting it an equivalent to Marxism, which destroys nations.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 11 years, 5 months ago
    "We've reduced everything by 10 to 15 percent, but it's not fair. I can't make a profit now," said the owner of one small electronics store, who asked not to be identified.

    "I agree they should go for the big fish, the real speculators, but they risk hurting us all."

    Oh, so as long as it's somebody else they're going after then it's okay... wtf.
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