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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Attero Dominatus on March 01, 2009, 09:21:54 AM
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-01-09 02:23 AM
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Chavez sends troops to rice companies This government is here to protect the people not the rich
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Edited on Sun Mar-01-09 02:28 AM by seemslikeadream
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/01/business/LT-V...
CARACAS, Venezuela: President Hugo Chavez on Saturday ordered troops to temporarily seize control of all Venezuelan rice processing plants to ensure they produce at full capacity amid soaring inflation and persisting reports of food shortages.
Chavez told the National Guard to "take control of and intervene in all of these businesses that process rice in Venezuela," including at least a half-dozen local and foreign private companies.
"This government is here to protect the people, not the bourgeoisie or the rich," Chavez said, accusing some companies of slowing production to evade price caps that have slashed their profit margins. He did not say what the takeover would involve or how long it would last.
Chavez imposed price caps on scores of basic foodstuffs including chicken, rice and sugar in 2003 to combat rising inflation, which at 31 percent is now Latin America's highest. He last raised rice prices a year ago to just over $1 per kilogram ($0.46 a pound).
Agriculture Minister Elias Jaua said troops would occupy company installations as "the first measure" in an unspecified takeover process, beginning with a rice plant owned by Empresas Polar, the country's largest food producer.
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-01-09 02:27 AM
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1. If the rice co. is producing below poss. levels for economic reasons
It makes sense.
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Sarah Ibarruri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-01-09 02:37 AM
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2. I like Chavez - he doesn't like economic terrorism against the people nt
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Then go live there :bird:
silverweb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-01-09 02:48 AM
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3. Government for the people.
The way it's supposed to be.
No wonder the people love him.
Viva Chavez!
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Traveling_Home Donating Member (699 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-01-09 02:50 AM
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4. Price Caps when there's is 30% inflation???
Something isn't working right. Easy to see.
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-01-09 09:59 AM
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7. The Mugabe of South America...
Turn over the means of production to those who know nothing about it and things will magically improve.
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That post will not last long.
Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-01-09 10:04 AM
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8. Since the agricultural sector has not been nationalized, it's pretty clear that
that the food producers of Venezuela are conducting a "capital strike," that is, deliberately cutting back on production in order to create unemployment and shortages in an attempt to increase discontent with the government.
This is what happened in Chile before the CIA-inspired coup against Salvador Allende.
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Good going Hugo! Cause we all know how well your Army grunts are
at running a complex factory. He be a genius!!!! :whatever:
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Sometimes I think the DUmp is a parody site.
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Soooooo, lets send the government goons around to where the DUmmies work to tell them "Your pay scale has been halved and your production quota doubled." .....different story I bet, huh?
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Soooooo, lets send the government goons around to where the DUmmies work to tell them "Your pay scale has been halved and your production quota doubled." .....different story I bet, huh?
Two times nothing is still nothing which is the typical DUmmie output. However, it would be nice to see their welfare cut in half.
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I understand that there are geographical issues involved in food production but what does it say about these socialist havens when rice is the most important staple of existence.
Marxist policies have always equaled hunger.
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-01-09 09:59 AM
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7. The Mugabe of South America...
Turn over the means of production to those who know nothing about it and things will magically improve.
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And you guys helped elect the Mugabe of North America. :thatsright: Good going!
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And you guys helped elect the Mugabe of North America. :thatsright: Good going!
You are a racist MFer. Mugabe has made practically everyone in Zimbabwe a billionaire. Name one white leader that has done that! :-)
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Good going Hugo! Cause we all know how well your Army grunts are
at running a complex factory. He be a genius!!!! :whatever:
Nothing like going to work at the point of a gun. Maybe Hugo will give all the people rice cookers.
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You are a racist MFer. Mugabe has made practically everyone in Zimbabwe a billionaire. Name one white leader that has done that! :-)
The problem is: You need one of the new 100 Trillion Zimbo dollar notes to buy a loaf of bread!
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Be interesting to see what these dumb asses would think if THEY were the worker's being forced to work for NOTHING and no insurance. Where the hell does the union fit into all this?!
What frickin' idiots.
KC
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Good going Hugo! Cause we all know how well your Army grunts are
at running a complex factory. He be a genius!!!! :whatever:
soon they will have serious food shortages