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GGJohn

(9,951 posts)
2. Maduro,
Thu Oct 22, 2015, 12:30 AM
Oct 2015

doubling down on stupid.


I wonder when the Chavista supporters will show up and tell us how this time price controls will work?

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Yeah, great idea. NaturalHigh Oct 2015 #1
Maduro, GGJohn Oct 2015 #2
Fixing a flat tire by putting gas in the car neffernin Oct 2015 #3
At least putting gas in the car would fix a different problem, this is more like hughee99 Oct 2015 #10
gasoline is about 4 cents a gallon in Venezuela, time to raise the price for some gov. revenue Sunlei Oct 2015 #13
Yes, but even then they'll be getting paid by people IN Venzuela who only have access hughee99 Oct 2015 #14
I think the problem is whoever was buying Ven. dirt cheap crude oil. quit buying from them. Sunlei Oct 2015 #15
Undercutting the global price is the opposite of what they want to do Bacchus4.0 Oct 2015 #20
maybe they should tell China to go pound sand and let them only take the oil. Sunlei Oct 2015 #23
How's that revolution going these days chavistas? nt Bacchus4.0 Oct 2015 #4
The out of control Capitalists keep squeezing the socialist government fasttense Oct 2015 #5
And nothing says christx30 Oct 2015 #11
More like a business-hostile environment where growth is impossible. Oneironaut Oct 2015 #19
That is NOT reality and has absolutely NO evidence to back it. It's merely your opinion. fasttense Oct 2015 #22
No evidence except for everyone that has tried it. Oneironaut Oct 2015 #26
Says the fanatic who has never been to Venezuela Marksman_91 Oct 2015 #27
This guy makes GWB look like a genius by comparison FLPanhandle Oct 2015 #6
Wow. He reminds me of Republicans. Adrahil Oct 2015 #7
Yep same, chavistas are incapable of learning nt Bacchus4.0 Oct 2015 #8
Alcoholic vows to drink more. Throd Oct 2015 #9
must be tough for a Country that depended on high priced oil for everything. Sunlei Oct 2015 #12
That rather assumes they're making that much profit. Igel Oct 2015 #16
I don't think that country made much profit at all on their crude oil. Sunlei Oct 2015 #17
They absolutely do NOT want to undercut the oil market, they would lose even more revenue nt Bacchus4.0 Oct 2015 #21
Then I suggest goats for meat & milk and learn to grow crops. Sunlei Oct 2015 #24
That is what they supposedly were going to do with the expropriations of industries Bacchus4.0 Oct 2015 #25
I kinda hope that Venezuela's oil industry collapses Marksman_91 Oct 2015 #28
It's the CIA! Boo! -Maduro Oneironaut Oct 2015 #18
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