Middle Classes Escape From Chavez Socialism

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2-11-2007 | Jose Orozco

[ccmay]

Can we just assasinate this sack of dung already? It would change no one's opinion of us in Latin America.

-ccm

[Spktyr]

Yup, it's time to go...

[Rembrandt]

Venezuela is the new Cuba, the new North Korea, filled with the underclass paying tribute to the Dictator.

[Vince Ferrer]

I'd take them in.

[38special]

Run for your lives!

[television is just wrong]

wasn't this the guy Cindy Sheehan was having a love fest with?

[Lancey Howard]

Ironically, Venezuela is an excellent audio-visual aid for seeing the kind of socialism that the Democrats want to bring to America. Imagine if they succeeded.... We would similarly want to leave, but where would we go?

[TigersEye]

What do you want to bet that they come here, register as Democraticks and vote for socialism in America!?!

Deny their Visas. They can fix their own country.

[NickatNite2003]

Ain't that the truth!

[Goldwater and Gingrich]

I don't think so. The ones leaving now are the ones that know what is coming and did not vote for him.

All the Chaves supporters will stay with there new King that is giving a free lunch.

We should take all there middle class if they have around $50,000 in assets or more, and give them instant amnesty for the next 18 months.

The low class scum that voted for him can stay.

[TigersEye]

I will admit I was being a little harsh. I don't think that they will necessarily be anything like an American conservative. If they are going to Spain to escape Venezuela then it isn't exactly socialism that bothers them.

[Islander7]

Jimmy Carter's friend.

[Wilhelm Tell]

The bright side to all of this is that as these Venezuelans flee to other countries, they will help revitalize these countries. I'm thinking especially of Europe. I doubt if the Democrat-Republican establishment will welcome these people to the U.S. Neither party will want them because they would be productive citizens.

Chavez must realize that he cannot keep the system running if the productive class disappears completely. He faces the problem of how to keep these people working at a minimal level -- enough for the government to exploit but not enough to let the people enjoy the fruits of their own labor. He will probably try to do something to make it difficult for skilled people to leave the country. He can't build a wall around Venezuela but he will probably impose sanctions against the relatives of people who try to leave, not allow complete families to leave, that sort of thing.

[Prokopton]

"We should take all there middle class if they have around $50,000 in assets or more, and give them instant amnesty for the next 18 months."

Sorry we don't have room. We're overflowing with 20 million lower class and criminal class, uneducated, illegal Mexicans who don't have 50 cents but who demand amnesty. No one else need apply.

[dfwgator]

Pretty soon, the only way out of Venezuela will be via life rafts.

[TigersEye]

Chavez will probably move to freeze as many of their assets as possible. Institute laws to prevent them from doing anything with their property. But when it's the people with money moving who will buy their property anyway? If they can sell it will be a firesale prices. They will leave with what they can pack.

[abigkahuna]

oil operations in the Orinoco River belt, which produces 600 billion barrels per day.

Dang! Isn't that more than the world uses in a year?

[FreeManWhoCan]

The Venezuelans are coming here to Miami with all their money and buying up houses and condos. All the prices are still pretty high. This happened when the Colombians had troubles and when the Argentinians had that money fiasco years ago...