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MADem

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8. NO. We didn't give him unlimited powers--"Manuro" can APPROPRIATE. He can spend the nation's

Reply to forest444 (Reply #4)

Sat Jan 16, 2016, 03:15 PM

Jan 2016

cash. Dumbya couldn't do that.

He needed a complicit Congress to vote in favor of authorizations to process his dreams. His demands would have faltered without the cash to fuel them, and Congress voted, year after year, to fund his wishes.

Without those votes and that dough, though, Dumbya would have been HAMSTRUNG.

"Manuro" not only has his hands on the tiller unilaterally, he also has both paws in the till.

It's not the same thing at all.

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Venezuela's Maduro admits economic 'catastrophe' [View all] Bacchus4.0 Jan 2016 OP

Entirely HIS fault, too. He had the power and he mortgaged the nation's future and treasure. nt MADem Jan 2016 #1

hope enid602 Jan 2016 #2

We're not in the habit of giving the President "unlimited powers." VZ has done this routinely MADem Jan 2016 #3

We're not? forest444 Jan 2016 #4

What do you think the BCV has been doing for the past few years? Oele Jan 2016 #5

The key word there being unlimited. forest444 Jan 2016 #6

NO. We didn't give him unlimited powers--"Manuro" can APPROPRIATE. He can spend the nation's MADem Jan 2016 #8

Looks like Venezuelan crude is less than $20 a barrel. Less than production cost nt Bacchus4.0 Jan 2016 #10

The stuff stinks, that's why. Literally. It's sour; heavy and sulfurous. MADem Jan 2016 #11

The funniest part was that the state media started a "Cadena", Oele Jan 2016 #7

Allup told it like it is in Manuro's face Marksman_91 Jan 2016 #9

Same speech--better angle. You can see Maduro looking like Deputy DAWG when he gets chastised! MADem Jan 2016 #12