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Venezuela shopping centres halve opening times as crisis bites
BBC News ^ | February 8, 2016

Posted on 02/08/2016 6:41:16 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Shopping centres in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, say they will be halving their opening times to four hours a day.

The move will allow them to comply with government energy rationing.

Ministers says a severe drought caused by El Nino has brought 18 of the country's hydro-electric dams to critically low water levels.

"To turn the lights off at one in the afternoon and not to be able to work would have a huge impact on our business," said Mleidys Galves who works in a pizzeria in the Lider Shopping Centre in Caracas.

"That is our peak selling time when people come out to eat lunch."

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: failure; socialism; venezuela
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

I am curious how you can post three times to three different threads at the exact same time? What kind of computer are you using?

Beyonce turns Super Bowl halftime into Black Panthers, Black Lives Matter, Malcom X rallying cry
February 8, 2016 at 10:15:37 AM CST · 95 of 98
St_Thomas_Aquinas to austinaero
Enough Beyonce at halftime,,enough!
No kidding!

I was very happy with Coldplay. I thought they were great. Fun, upbeat songs. I enjoyed the Bruno Mars song, too. Great dancing.

That was the consensus at our house. Two out of three isn’t bad.

Great year for commercials, too. Our favorite was the dachshund hotdogs.

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Steve Forbes on Donald Trump and His ‘Hoo-Ha’
February 8, 2016 at 10:15:37 AM CST · 67 of 67
St_Thomas_Aquinas to AndyJackson
But now Cruz comes along and says I also won’t charge income tax. I will charge a VAT. She is now 20% worse off than she was.
The tax on businesses, which is effectively a VAT, is offset by the elimination of the payroll tax. For some businesses this will be a wash, for others a boon, and for others, a cost that will be passed on to their customers.

The analysis from the Tax Foundation shows the overall effect to be a boon to the economy:

According to the Tax Foundation’s Taxes and Growth Model, the plan would significantly reduce marginal tax rates and the cost of capital, which would lead to a 13.9 percent higher GDP over the long term, provided that the tax cut could be appropriately financed.
The plan would also lead to a 43.9 percent larger capital stock, 12.2 percent higher wages, and 4.8 million more full-time equivalent jobs.

On a static basis, the plan would cut taxes by 9.2 percent, on average, for all taxpayers.

Accounting for economic growth, all taxpayers would see an increase in after-tax income of at least 14 percent at the end of the decade.

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Venezuela shopping centres halve opening times as crisis bites
February 8, 2016 at 10:15:37 AM CST · 20 of 20
St_Thomas_Aquinas to Oldeconomybuyer


21 posted on 02/08/2016 8:33:51 AM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: PGR88

They’re called leftists so they can remember which hand to use when the toilet paper runs out.


22 posted on 02/08/2016 8:58:32 AM PST by Suz in AZ
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Venezuelans don't have an El Nino problem. They have an El Hombre problem. Namely, Nicolas Maduro, aka Bernie Sanders' ideological hero.

Note: I can write and speak Spanish, but I have deliberately left out the tilde above the "n" in El Nino and the accented "a" in Nicholas on purpose because of the HTML character errors that show up when my comments are previewed here on FR.

23 posted on 02/08/2016 9:28:12 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
THIS TIME we'll get it right.

24 posted on 02/08/2016 10:38:30 AM PST by Organic Panic
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To: PLMerite

Its all the fault of El Nino! Er, Bush!

(Tilde over last “o” of course. My computer does not have a Spanish letterset IBM Selectric type ball with a tilde!)

In some secret location the Bush weather machine is fired up and droughting down socialist nation’s reservoirs to force them to turn off the lights. (It is also causing Waterfalls to run backward!)

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-35474399


25 posted on 02/08/2016 12:19:33 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hope and Change! Venezuelan style!


26 posted on 02/08/2016 12:39:54 PM PST by CodeJockey
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To: Just mythoughts

Amazing isn’t it?


27 posted on 02/08/2016 12:48:56 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: PA Engineer

Do you know how this can happen? I certainly got no answer...


28 posted on 02/08/2016 1:03:01 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Just mythoughts
Just some interesting reading.

Sockpuppet (Internet) and Political Bots.
29 posted on 02/08/2016 2:06:19 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: PA Engineer

Makes one wonder who the other two parties might be?


30 posted on 02/08/2016 4:32:53 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Just mythoughts

I have been following it since the beginning. We also have a couple of bundlers here.


31 posted on 02/08/2016 4:40:44 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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