Posted on 10/24/2008 7:57:52 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
CARACAS, Venezuela — They don't call him President Bush in Venezuela anymore.
Now he's known as "Comrade."
With the Bush administration's Treasury Department resorting to government bailout after government bailout to keep the U.S. economy afloat, leftist governments and their political allies in Latin America are having a field day, gloating one day and taunting Bush the next for adopting the types of interventionist government policies that he's long condemned.
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Can you spell bankruptcy?
Hope Mr Chavez enjoys crude oil on his Wheaties.
remember when u.s. banks were told by the international finance community
and the universities that they should loan money to latin america?
and did?
later in the early 1990s the latin american banks failed to repay the loans
and the american banks were left with the largest losses in banking history.
si.
Sometimes, I wish the US Goobermint WOULD declare bankruptcy.
I am angered that my grandchildren will be pay debts run up by my parent’s generation.
Can you spell “Saudi oil cut off”. Drill here, drill now.
For all of those who felt that the bailouts weren’t socialist in nature, it appears awfully obvious to those who are admittedly socialist.
Ever wonder...as bad as McCain is...what if he had won in 2000 instead of Bush? You think he might have been marginally better? Outside of the WOT and tax cuts I have found Bush to be a dismal failure.
When sugar, coffee, oil or beef is ascendant everyone does well and everyone parties.
When the prices fall, then everyone suffers.
There are some diversified economies down there: Chile, Brazil and Mexico come to mind. Still, this has been a recurrent pattern in that part of the world and one that is resistant to change. There's a multitude of reasons and the nature of the ruling oligarchies is a big one.
When the inevitable crash in prices occurs I don't celebrate their comeuppance. Lots of people suffer as a result. The poor suffer the most and Latin America is blessed with many poor people. The rich have to make adjustments, of course, and limit their holidays abroad, sell the family Gulfstream and buy a Citation, etc.
It's a tragedy in the most classic sense.
"No one is ever told what would have happened."
—Aslan, to Lucy, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Another book I haven’t read.
If McCain had won in 2000?
Goodness, he would have been so much better! Just as strong on the WOT (actually stronger, considering that McCain's experience in Viet Nam would have had him put generals in charge of the Iraq war from the VERY BEGINNING instead of the civilian experiments Bush did ...McCain would have had someone like General Petraeus in charge early on, and never heard bumbling idiots like Paul Bremer ever set foot in that land), the same on taxes, and better on everything else.
Bush is a disaster ...were it not for the WOT and taxes he would be a total disaster. McCain would have been infinitely better than Bush.
never heard = never had
It’s one of the seven books in C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series. Although geared towards teenagers and young adults, it’s still a good read at any age.
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