Posted on 02/21/2019 8:21:06 AM PST by gattaca
I’ll be more careful in the future :)
The US doesn’t need to get itself involved in every country out there. First, it’s none of our business and second, we need to fix our own problems first.
Why didn’t Di Martino stay and help fix his country? Did he get lured into the US by all our freebies? Or does he not have a backbone.
I looked into the root causes of the electricity problems and was surprised to learn that the Venezuelans didn't use the oil for electricity (crude oil has to be refined first before you can do that), that as late as 2012 no less than 65% of their power needs were met by hydroelectric. That was what was nationalized in 2007 and has degraded since then to the point that it can't keep up, and it's a lot more expensive to rebuild hydroelectric than it is oil-based generation. And in order to bring their oil extraction back on line they're going to need that source to come back on line. It's one reason that both China and Russia, who are owed a great deal of oil that's still in the ground, have been slow to move on extracting it themselves: it's likely to cost them more than they're owed to get what they're owed. It looks like Russia is going to make the attempt now but they're having to export oil into Venezuela in order to extract it out of Venezuela. And lend Venezuela the money to pay for that oil. Nasty little catch-22.
You probably stay within your school district and have kids in government schools that teach what you disagree with.. . . and I’ll bet you have a lot of success taking over the school board.
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Great article. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (and other Dems) need to live there - like regular citizens - for 15 years. If they love it after, that they can STAY THERE!!
You can’t get on the school board unless you run for the school board. If you don’t show up as a concerned citizen at the school board meetings, your complaint will never be heard. Or take the easier less time and effort route by putting a bee in the ear of prominent townsmen to get the changes you want.
. . . but taking over a school board is a walk in the park compared to trying to dislodge a dictator, and a communist at that.
Slowly? Um...
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