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Tempest

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18. *groan*

Reply to hack89 (Reply #17)

Sat Jan 12, 2013, 01:05 PM

Jan 2013

No company has the money to place outright the costs of improvements, nor is it good business practice to do so.

Your own local government does it for capital improvements.

And it's not good business sense to pay for improvements out of profits. And I'm not even going to tell you why, I'm going to hope you research it for yourself.

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Economists see painful cuts coming for Venezuela [View all] hack89 Jan 2013 OP

Interesting Tempest Jan 2013 #1

What sanctions? hack89 Jan 2013 #2

*Groan* Tempest Jan 2013 #3

There are no limits on oil exports hack89 Jan 2013 #5

And now for the rest of the story Tempest Jan 2013 #8

But PDVSA only exports oil to the US and that is untouched hack89 Jan 2013 #12

You completely ignored my post. Good job. n/t Tempest Jan 2013 #14

Those things don't impact oil exports and the billions of dollars they bring in hack89 Jan 2013 #15

What happens to infrastructure when you can't finance the costs of improvements? Tempest Jan 2013 #16

And how does this stop PDVSA from improving infrastructure? hack89 Jan 2013 #17

*groan* Tempest Jan 2013 #18

Export-Import Bank of the United States finances US exports hack89 Jan 2013 #19

You're not looking at the big picture Tempest Jan 2013 #20

You misunderstand what the Export-Import bank does. hack89 Jan 2013 #21

Oy...it just came out that Chavez has cancer, and the austerity vultures are already circling tjwash Jan 2013 #4

Yup. With the IMF and World Bank leading the charge. n/t Tempest Jan 2013 #10

The people have had some good years - austerity will not be accepted easily. This will not end jwirr Jan 2013 #6

You can't blame the US for this hack89 Jan 2013 #7

I do not believe that your statement is the whole story. You need to read "The Shock Doctrine" by jwirr Jan 2013 #9

He's also unaware of the U.S. strangling the country's ability to obtain financing. n/t Tempest Jan 2013 #11

And a lot of people are not aware if what Standard Oil (Exxon) did to that country for years before jwirr Jan 2013 #13