Maduro steals election in Venezuela.

[Harpy Eagle]

Jimmy Carter felt he was very moral.

He was a huge failure.

He was a better president than any we have had in the current century.

And it is not him that thought he was moral, it was anyone that knows anything about him.

 

[Mrkelly]

Are you Venezuelan? You don't have any oil anywhere.

The US would love to take control of their oil

 

[martybegan]

Damn you're lazy.

How Venezuela lost its middle class

Ideological purges under Chávez and now Maduro have led to the mass exit of educated professionals

www.codastory.com

Despite a fledgling economic recovery, over half of Venezuelans still live in poverty and the average monthly wage is a pittance. Venezuela, with its significant oil reserves and its educated population, could have become a balanced, middle class society, political scientist Guillermo T. Aveledo has said.

That's about LOSING a middle class that you claimed it never had previously.

 

[surada]

The US would love to take control of their oil

You don't know anything about the oil business, do you?

 

[surada]

That's about LOSING a middle class that you claimed it never had previously.

The Venezuelan middle class began shrinking dramatically in the 1980. Before that only 50 % of the population was living in poverty.

How Venezuela lost its middle class

Ideological purges under Chávez and now Maduro have led to the mass exit of educated professionals

www.codastory.com

 

[Mrkelly]

You don't know anything about the oil business, do you?

I know that our government hates other people to be in control of it

 

[surada]

I know that our government hates other people to be in control of it

Our government isn't in the oil business, stupid.

 

[martybegan]

The Venezuelan middle class began shrinking dramatically in the 1980. Before that only 50 % of the population was living in poverty.

How Venezuela lost its middle class

Ideological purges under Chávez and now Maduro have led to the mass exit of educated professionals

www.codastory.com

That article blames the loss of the middle class on Chavez and Maduro. Your post implied it never existed and those two idiots brought about a middle class.

What say you?

 

[Mrkelly]

Our government isn't in the oil business, stupid.

OK

 

[surada]

That article blames the loss of the middle class on Chavez and Maduro. Your post implied it never existed and those two idiots brought about a middle class.

What say you?

Chavez was making great strides until the bottom fell out of the ppb. Maduro has had 10 years of economic ruin. He's an ignorant bully with no education. He was a bus driver.

There's no middle class in VZ... Crony Capitalism ground them down. Electing Chavez was reactionary. If the Middle Class in the US keeps shrinking we'll have our own Chavez type reactionary. That's when moronic demagogues seize power.

 

[martybegan]

Chavez was making great strides until the bottom fell out of the ppb. Maduro has had 10 years of economic ruin. He's an ignorant bully with no education. He was a bus driver.

There's no middle class in VZ... Crony Capitalism ground them down. Electing Chavez was reactionary. If the Middle Class in the US keeps shrinking we'll have our own Chavez type reactionary. That's when moronic demagogues seize power.

It's never socialism's fault, it's always just applied poorly.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Why would he do that with our oil?

Try that again, but make sense this time.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

That “8 million people fled”

How many fled the Chavez paradise?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Damn you're lazy.

How Venezuela lost its middle class

Ideological purges under Chávez and now Maduro have led to the mass exit of educated professionals

www.codastory.com

Despite a fledgling economic recovery, over half of Venezuelans still live in poverty and the average monthly wage is a pittance. Venezuela, with its significant oil reserves and its educated population, could have become a balanced, middle class society, political scientist Guillermo T. Aveledo has said.

The middle class that didn't exist before Chavez fled because of Chavez?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

He was a better president than any we have had in the current century.

And it is not him that thought he was moral, it was anyone that knows anything about him.

He was a huge failure.

 

[Lastamender]

Despite all polls showing that Maduro would lose -- POOF! Magically he got enough votes to maintain power, and it didn't even look that close, 51% to 44%. Mod Note - Trolling comment removed.

You can't vote your way out of Communism!



Guess they got just enough "mail in votes" to get it done.

Sounds like our 2020 election, and 2022.

 

[surada]

It's never socialism's fault, it's always just applied poorly.

Chavez invested oil revenue in healthcare, education, small business development and infrastructure until the price of oil collapsed.

 

[Mrkelly]

How many fled the Chavez paradise?

You act like you have the numbers

Show me

You sure went from 8 million people fled from Maduro to talking about Chavez pretty fast

 

[Lastamender]

Chavez invested oil revenue in healthcare, education, small business development and infrastructure until the price of oil collapsed.

Chavez nationalized every business then bled them dry. Try reality.

 

[martybegan]

Chavez invested oil revenue in healthcare, education, small business development and infrastructure until the price of oil collapsed.

Actually he invested it in his cronies, and then ruined the oil production capacity of the country as only a government can do when they nationalize the means of production.

Oil prices went back up, why couldn't they fix things when that happened?