Re: Oil soars on halts by Iraq, Venezuela

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From: lawrence day
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 06:03

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david_l_simpson@yahoo.com (Dave Simpson) wrote in message news:<23e7f86e.0204091137.3efebb5d@posting.google.com>...
> Lawrence Day wrote:
> 
> > >   (Venezuela's proto-Castro-and-Mao Chavez is a cancer on the whole
> > > Western Hemisphere.
> > 
> > So you say, however I don't recall Mao or Castro winning 
> > majority governments in successive democratic elections
> > the way Hugo Chavez has.
> 
>   Chavez may, only may, be somewhat better than Robert Mugabe.

That is your opinion. Do you have a single *fact* on which
to base it? Do you admit the possibility that your
American media may have been misleading you?
> 
> > Also, consider how Mao or Castro would have handled
> > deliberate economic sabatoge by executives who were
> > employees of the largest public company and key
> > component in its economy.
> > Mao would have had them executed
> > and Castro would have locked them up.
> > What did Hugo Chavez do?
> > He gave them early retirement.
> > Horrors! Imagine the audacity to actually fire
> > public employees who conspire against the public interest.
> 
>   "Public interest" -- I love that creative tool of interventionists.

Sure, 'oil executives' never intervene in public interest.
hmmm..

Lawrence Day
> 
> 
>   Dave Simpson

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