Posted on 05/02/2006 7:36:20 AM PDT by Grendel9
Right! Cultivating a mindless zombie population will be a tremendous asset to expanding the economy!
Iran and now this and people wonder why the price of oil is going up?
What makes these commie clowns unable to see what is in front of their faces? It's really astonishing.
Quick! Call Bill O'Reilly so he can rant and organize a boycott against those wascally oil companies.
Sadly, many of those who share O'Reilly's opinion are right here on FR.
Communism is a contagious cancer that represents a much larger threat than Bird Flu. Its high time to start showing some military muscle down on the border.
2 types of illegals: some lefties trying to spread commie views...some righties trying to flee their left-leaning countries.
Cruise Missle Alert !!!
It's so fun to watch a windbag like O'Reilly make an idiot of himself in public by insisting that market forces don't exist and that oil companies are gouging us.
Gee I wonder why they would nationalize. Oil corporations are making billions in profits and non-nationalized oil producing nations are paying billions. Supply and demand, cause and effect, it's all the same.
If you haven't been to Bolivia, it would be worth while to go there and see the conditions in which people must exist.
The entire country is controlled by an elite that holds the wealth of the nation. Expect soon an assasination attempt on this new President. He is upsetting the apple cart.
And in a commie country the government becomes the new elite which holds all the wealth which is a much worse case scenario.
The same can be said for most of Latin and South America. The majority of the people living subsistence level lives, in abject poverty, with a small elite actually running the country.
Don't forget that the companies made billion dollar investments into those facilities, expecting to recoup that investment over time. A US-based company was interested in building a LNG plant in Peru but is worried about the outcome of the Peruvian elections, of which Chavez keeps sticking his nose in.
Unfortunately, the companies will probably capitulate and run the plants while giving huge chunks of money to the leftist governemnts. If the companies had some backbone, they should shut it down, refuse to sell spare parts, etc, and good luck to the Bolivian "engineers" to run the company. Many of the national oil company "engineers" (PDVSA, Sonatrach, etc) are only in the positions because of nepostism. They are useless.
People should also keep China in mind. Companies constantly move operations to China for cheap labor. China sits quietly building its economy and its industry. We keep giving ours away. China knows that it is now still weaker, but it is waiting patiently. At some time in the future, China will nationalize all of its foriegn-owned industry, leaving America with serious problems.
Oh.. Duh. I get it. Duh. All right, I'm awake now.
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