Posted on 01/25/2010 7:08:40 AM PST by Cheap_Hessian
Still, you have to give him credit (actually, I wouldn't if you're a lender of any sort), after all, I'm sure we all remember 1988, when those dashing young men in the socialist utopia of East Germany were all zipping around in their cutting-edge Trabants:
And those poor, slaves-to-capitalism living over in the hovels and ghettoes of West Germany had to make do with poorly-designed trash such as the VW Jetta:
Man, who wouldn't want to trade a 1988 VW Jetta for a Trabbie, any day of the week!
And what a shame that all of that was destroyed, in 1989, when Ronald Reagan drop-kicked the Soviet Union into the ash-heaps of history (The Gipper won that one!):
And with that, the prices of everything skyrocketed, didn't they?
Geez, what an effing loser - and to think that Dear Leader looks up to this chump.
Nope. They'll say it's our fault that yet again, socialism has devolved into utter death, desolation, and misery.
In other news, Chavez declares pi equals three.
“All that decimal business is a capitalist plot, and unnecessary in a socialist utopia !” he said Monday.
LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!! Hel-lo, Hugo! Cold-war Eastern Europe? Cuba? China? Russia?... ah never mind. Let them find out on their own.
Si, Si! This is the kind of fresh thinking and insight the world needs! Eliminate the middleman!
If only Che had lived to see this!
Cuba has limped along for fifty years on a lot less. Venezuela has huge oil resources. Hard, even for a socialist, to screw that up. Of course, Venezuelans don't need a boat to escape.
“Of course, Venezuelans don’t need a boat to escape.”
Neither did the East Germans.
I'm sure you're right - the reserves will not be screwed up. But they will remain just that - reserves - as he screws up the companies and technology needed to get it out of the ground and turn the oil resources into the cash resources needed to fund his utopia.
Even the most die hard ideologues learn to step back and let the doctors revive the golden goose when it stops laying. I see an “ideology free zone” eventually being cordoned off around the oil industry.
For the Venezuelans sake, I hope you’re right.
But remember, Zimbabwe used to be the bread-basket of Africa.
The Chinese didn’t croak Hong Kong.
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