Socialism: Cause & Effect in Venezuela

[Strontium Dog]

1) Nationalise your oil industry and kick out all the foreign experts.

2) Watch nervously as oil output slumps.

3) Preside over declining safety standards, culminating in a refinery explosion that kills 50 people.

[mistermack]

1) Nationalise your oil industry and kick out all the foreign experts.

2) Watch nervously as oil output slumps.

3) Preside over declining safety standards, culminating in a refinery explosion that kills 50 people.

OR :
1) Drag a country of 1.2 billion people of many ethnic groups together into the 21st century without civil wars.

2) Become the main CREDITOR of the world's "richest" nation

3) Invade no foreign countries for years and years and years and years and years.

4) Be right on course to overtake the USA as the worlds biggest economy.

Confucius he say " it ain't what you do it's the way that you do it "

[Clinton Huxley]

Or:-

1) Let a capitalist multinational run an oil refinery in your state
2) Watch nervously as basic health and safety rules are flouted
3) See 15 people killed and 170 injured in a massive explosion.

That'd be the non socialist Texas City Refinery Explosion of 2005 then....

[Coito ergo sum]

This thread is about Socialism, Hux. Capitalism is irrelevant to the thread. Why are you changing the subject?

[Bella Fortuna]

Therefore VENEZUELAN POODLE MOTH!

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

....whoa!!

[Pensioner]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xt_Ddltzn4

[Seth]

1) Nationalise your oil industry and kick out all the foreign experts.

2) Watch nervously as oil output slumps.

3) Preside over declining safety standards, culminating in a refinery explosion that kills 50 people.

OR :
1) Drag a country of 1.2 billion people of many ethnic groups together into the 21st century without civil wars.

Without civil wars? China? Are you daft? Evidently you've forgotten Chang Kai Shek and the Cultural Rebellion both, not to mention China's method of dealing with dissidents, which involves shallow graves and bullets in the back of the head.

2) Become the main CREDITOR of the world's "richest" nation

Yes, that's unfortunate. If it were up to me I'd ban trade with China tomorrow and repudiate all that debt and damn the torpedoes.

3) Invade no foreign countries for years and years and years and years and years.

Well, except for all that invasion by proxy, subversion and espionage of course.

4) Be right on course to overtake the USA as the worlds biggest economy.

At which point you're all just totally fucked, because when they come for YOUR economy, you're on your own.

[laklak]

I, for one, welcome our new Oriental Overlords. There's too damn many stray cats around here and I quite like Moo Shoo Pussy. Besides, I need to get a pedicure.

[Seth]

I, for one, welcome our new Oriental Overlords. There's too damn many stray cats around here and I quite like Moo Shoo Pussy. Besides, I need to get a pedicure.

The real secret is that the US is actually destroying Chinese Communism by seducing the Chinese people into Capitalism. If the Central Committee gets too uppity and starts threatening world peace, we just threaten to shut off trade and repudiate debt. This will foment revolution in China, since all their prosperity depends on Americans buying their crap.

We're Reaganising them slowly and surely, as free-market Capitalism always does to Communist despotism. This is because no matter how loyal the political elite are, the people themselves like to eat well, live in nice houses, and have cool stuff, which only Capitalism can give them.

[Tyrannical]

I, for one, welcome our new Oriental Overlords. There's too damn many stray cats around here and I quite like Moo Shoo Pussy. Besides, I need to get a pedicure.

The real secret is that the US is actually destroying Chinese Communism by seducing the Chinese people into Capitalism. If the Central Committee gets too uppity and starts threatening world peace, we just threaten to shut off trade and repudiate debt. This will foment revolution in China, since all their prosperity depends on Americans buying their crap.

We're Reaganising them slowly and surely, as free-market Capitalism always does to Communist despotism. This is because no matter how loyal the political elite are, the people themselves like to eat well, live in nice houses, and have cool stuff, which only Capitalism can give them.

China is a National Socialist State just as true to it's ideals as Nazi Germany, all they really lack is a charismatic leader.