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Eliminate capitalist practices at public firms: Chavez
Yahoo India News (IANS) ^ | January 25, 2010

Posted on 01/25/2010 7:08:40 AM PST by Cheap_Hessian

Caracas, Jan 25 (IANS/EFE) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has asked for the cooperation of the national legislature in drafting laws permitting the elimination of capitalistic operating guidelines at public firms.

Chavez on his weekly radio and television show Sunday revealed the societal model he envisions, according to which public firms will not depend on their established production capacity or on the quality of their products, their costs, or their sales, because their survival will be guaranteed by an annual budget provided by the state.

With their operations assured in this way, the firm will not sell its products in the open market but rather will deliver them to a state entity which will undertake to market them at prices whereby the value added is eliminated.

According to Chavez's idea, the consumer goods that are sold to the public in this way will be much cheaper but will be of similar quality to those offered by capitalist-run firms.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: capitalism; chavez; socialism; venezuela
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To: Cheap_Hessian
Apparently, Hugo Chavez has been dumpster-diving in the ash-heaps of history, because he has done nothing more, and nothing less, than revive the old Soviet production system. All we need him to say now is the phrase "five year plan" and the circle will be complete.

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.

41 posted on 01/25/2010 8:45:36 AM PST by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: NRPM
When Venezuela completely implodes, the U.S. media will describe it as “unexpected.”

Nope. They'll say it's our fault that yet again, socialism has devolved into utter death, desolation, and misery.

42 posted on 01/25/2010 8:54:41 AM PST by zeugma (Proofread a page a day: http://www.pgdp.net/)
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To: Cheap_Hessian

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.


43 posted on 01/25/2010 9:40:49 AM PST by jimt
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To: Cheap_Hessian
According to Chavez's idea, the consumer goods that are sold to the public in this way will be much cheaper but will be of similar quality to those offered by capitalist-run firms.

LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!! Hel-lo, Hugo! Cold-war Eastern Europe? Cuba? China? Russia?... ah never mind. Let them find out on their own.

44 posted on 01/25/2010 9:44:36 AM PST by ScottinVA (Glad to see Demonic Unhinged (DU) highlights and attacks my FR comments!)
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To: headsonpikes

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!


45 posted on 01/25/2010 10:46:32 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts)
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To: NRPM
When Venezuela completely implodes, the U.S. media will describe it as “unexpected.”

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.

46 posted on 01/25/2010 10:50:12 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“Of course, Venezuelans don’t need a boat to escape.”

Neither did the East Germans.


47 posted on 01/25/2010 11:20:05 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Venezuela has huge oil resources. Hard, even for a socialist, to screw that up.

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.

48 posted on 01/25/2010 11:38:20 AM PST by green iguana
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To: green iguana

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.


49 posted on 01/25/2010 11:45:54 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

For the Venezuelans sake, I hope you’re right.

But remember, Zimbabwe used to be the bread-basket of Africa.


50 posted on 01/25/2010 11:48:33 AM PST by green iguana
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To: green iguana

The Chinese didn’t croak Hong Kong.


51 posted on 01/25/2010 11:54:25 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts)
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