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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
well if he was actually capable of bringing people upt to middle class levels, that would not be completely bad. the problem is that this creates a dependency on the government that cannot be supported-- well, the thing is, maybe in venezuela it can (oil money), but in most countries it can't. a fluctuation in oil prices could seriously crash his plans and...oww!!
in a way, oil is to venezuela what the soviet union was to cuba-- a source of subsidies.
the problem is that when one butterfucker has so much control, well, corruption ensues, and then the thought police, and then... ayy!!! do we need to describe this whole story?
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I was about to get to that, you beat me to it. You know, when I first joined this board I was a junkie of the political threads (still am), and as far as I can remember, you and I didn't agree on too much. Nowadays, it seems that we agree on a lot of things. My views of the world haven't really changed, and I doubt yours have either, but for some reason we're uncovering a lot of common ground.