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In Venezuela, uncertainty spurs a middle-class exodus (Chavez is causing a brain drain)
The Christian Science Monitor ^ | October 11, 2007 | Sara Miller Llana

Posted on 11/17/2007 10:15:04 PM PST by grundle

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To: Polybius

I think you’re in love.


61 posted on 11/18/2007 3:19:56 PM PST by donna (ADHD - Absent Dad/Husband Disorder)
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To: donna
em·i·grate [ émmi gràyt ] (past and past participle em·i·grat·ed, present participle em·i·grat·ing, 3rd person present singular em·i·grates) intransitive verb Definition: leave to live in another country: to leave a place, especially a native country, to go and live elsewhere

Yes. Exactly what I said:

Denial of "Emmigration" rights means that you are under house arrest even though you have an invitation to come to my house or somebody else's house.

The operative words in the dictionary definition are "to leave", "to go".

You "emmigrate" (with an "E") FROM a country.

You "immigrate" (with an "I") INTO into a country.

A person that leaves China to permantly live in France is an "emmigrant" (with an "E") of Jamaica and an "immigrant" (with an "I") of France.

If French authorities deny that person permission to enter France, that person is being denied "immigration" (with an "I").

If Chinese authorities deny that person permission to leave China, that person is being denied "emmigration" (with an "E").

"Emmigration" (with an "E"), the right to leave your country unless you have violated some law, is considered a human right.

"Immigration" (with an "I"), the right to enter any particular country, is NOT considered a human right.

In social terms, if I deny you entry into my house, the equivalent of denial of "immigration" (with an "I"), I am perfectly within my rights.

However, if your husband forcibly prohibits you from leaving your house, the equivalent of denial of "emmigration" (with an "E"), he is commiting the crimminal act of kidnapping.

62 posted on 11/18/2007 4:43:58 PM PST by Polybius
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To: grundle

Zimbabwe with a Latin zest.


63 posted on 11/18/2007 4:51:01 PM PST by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find.)
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To: donna
I think you’re in love.

I may be.

In this corner of the Left Coast, conservative women are as rare as unicorns. :-)


64 posted on 11/18/2007 4:56:17 PM PST by Polybius
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To: grundle

Prepare for decades of declining quality of life in Venezuela and for endless propaganda blaming the horrible gringos for the bad things they’ve done to Venezuela, either secretly or if we ever put sanctions on them.

I’ve never understood the whole concept that the US putting an embargo on Cuba is the cause of their economic plight. I mean, OK, they can’t buy Chevy’s, but they can buy BMWs. What’s the problem? It’s just a convenient way for the left to blame the US for the failures of their much vaunted socialism.


65 posted on 11/18/2007 5:00:33 PM PST by Phsstpok (When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring!)
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To: donna

“They should all stay in their own country and fight for their own freedom.”

If my point before was not clear, the decision to allow them in or not is not made by you nor I, but by our elected officials, who are quite happy to allow the border with mexico to serve as a conduit for illegals (those venezuelans would in the majority arrive with some sort of visa to MIA). This is our government doing everything possible to not change the status quo, thus my comment that tax sheep (taxpayers) do not influence policy in this area enough to alter the status quo (though the amnesty did fail).

The fight in their own country, incidentally, is lost, and probably has been since the national strike failed in late 2002.


66 posted on 11/18/2007 5:54:35 PM PST by WoofDog123
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