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Article #41918Re: Oil soars on halts by Iraq, Venezuela
From: Dave Simpson
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 19:37
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 19:37
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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. > 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. Dave Simpson
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