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Maduro announced 30 % wage increase
Ecuador Times ^ | May 1, 2014

Posted on 05/02/2014 6:35:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, announced a 30% increase in the minimum wage and pensions to protect Venezuelan people from an inflation that reaches an annual rate of almost 60 %.

“Now, on the occasion of May First, I have decided to increase the national minimum wage and pensions of 30 % to bring the salary and pension levels for a proper life demand of our people,” said the president in a meeting with union leaders in Caracas.

Maduro blames for the rising prices of consumer products to an “economic war” of enemies of the socialist government, and often lashes out against employers for alleged practices of price hikes , hoarding and speculation.

However, his critics say the endemic problem of inflation in Venezuela is proof of the failure of 15 years of socialist economic measures applied under the command of Maduro and before by his deceased predecessor Hugo Chavez.

(Excerpt) Read more at ecuadortimes.net ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bitcoin; communism; cryptocurrency; hugochavez; leopoldolopez; minimumwage; nicolasmaduro; socialism; venezuela
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1 posted on 05/02/2014 6:35:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He has a pen and a phone!


2 posted on 05/02/2014 6:36:18 AM PDT by 11th Commandment ("THOSE WHO TIRE LOSE")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

30% ? It should be 100%!


3 posted on 05/02/2014 6:37:39 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama and Maduro should have a summit. They have so many good ideas they could share; perhaps the meeting could be on Devil’s Island.


4 posted on 05/02/2014 6:38:51 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let me get this straight. With the stroke of a pen, Obama’s brother is going to raise wages and pensions by 30% to offset inflation, huh? So, by fiat, creating more money to chase fewer goods will help, right?

Did Mundo and Obama go to the same boarding school together? And people keep saying how very smart Liberals are.


5 posted on 05/02/2014 6:40:56 AM PDT by Obadiah (I like Krabby Patties.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When the collapse comes, it will be ugly. The last 15 years under the communists have seen an expanding underclass. When there is no more money to pay for welfare, it will turn very violent.


6 posted on 05/02/2014 6:41:10 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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7 posted on 05/02/2014 6:47:04 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maduro should move to Seattle and run for mayor. The current idiot just proposed $15 hour minimum wage for the same Marxist reasons.


8 posted on 05/02/2014 6:49:41 AM PDT by peyton randolph (Show me the man and I will find the crime. - Lavrenti Beria)
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To: PapaBear3625

And when that time comes the public sector, including law enforcement, will fight just as hard to maintain their positions of privilege.


9 posted on 05/02/2014 6:50:24 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And why do you have inflation?


10 posted on 05/02/2014 6:50:43 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: peyton randolph

I love Seattle’s idea. That means more jobs will be moving out of Seattle.


11 posted on 05/02/2014 6:51:22 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ceausescu did the very same thing....right before he was overthrown.


12 posted on 05/02/2014 6:51:27 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A 30% wage increase to protect people from inflation?

Hilarious! This is the way leftists think here in America though.


13 posted on 05/02/2014 6:52:46 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: PapaBear3625

“When the collapse comes”:- countries that have seen the underverse:

Greece
spain
france
Italy
Ireland
Venezuela
Argentina

And others- we are near the tipping point- oh and by the
Way — good luck to the 800,00 WORKERS who have NOW
“Disappeared from the U.S. work force!!


14 posted on 05/02/2014 6:56:56 AM PDT by mj1234
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To: PapaBear3625

Looking at our underclass, they excel in numbers (many) and size (very hefty). If they can roll themselves out of bed, they will have no problem outliving us when the starvation sets in.


15 posted on 05/02/2014 6:57:01 AM PDT by AdSimp
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The minimum wage spiral is a dragon that feeds on its own tail. Supposedly put in place to “mitigate” the ravages of inflation, the minimum wage itself exacerbates the very worst effects of inflation. By pricing itself out of the market, the cost of labor vastly diminishes the demand for the same. Those entrepreneurs that attempt to function in such an environment do not hire replacement workers, but keep on the old experienced workers, thus blocking the young and inexperienced from ever entering the competition for jobs. Or they place ever greater workloads upon the remaining workers, thus keeping productivity up to provide for their continued future existence.

For this, the greater productivity can be rewarded with much fatter paychecks to the remaining workers, but the problem remains of what to do with the young and restless unemployed low-skilled youth, placing ever greater burdens on the social “safety net”, which is soon overloaded and fails.

Then who gets blamed? Certainly not the government, which “compassionately” promised the minimum wage standard.

A promise which cannot be kept. By anybody.


16 posted on 05/02/2014 6:57:53 AM PDT by alloysteel (Selective and willful ignorance spells doom, to both victim and perpetrator - mostly the perp.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We have a Venezuelan living with us right now. She says it’s pretty bad there. And a lot of endemic corruption and incompetence, so getting things done is pretty frustrating. Also, she says Maduro is not even a “native-born” Venezuelan. He was born in Colombia, so under their Constitution he is not eligible to be President of Venezuela.

Pray for Venezuela, I guess, along with so many other countries on the list.


17 posted on 05/02/2014 6:58:08 AM PDT by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wow! Sounds like a plan. But why not free cars, food, houses and health care? Oh yeah, and cell phones.


18 posted on 05/02/2014 6:58:24 AM PDT by tiki
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To: tiki
Margaret Thatcher: "Socialism works until you run out of other peoples' money."
19 posted on 05/02/2014 7:01:18 AM PDT by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: MrB

I was looking for the “Humor” keyword but alas, our world has become one big joke.


20 posted on 05/02/2014 7:04:39 AM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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