(03-07-2013 12:19 AM)Rebel Wrote:  

(03-06-2013 10:21 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  

(03-06-2013 02:41 PM)Rebel Wrote:  

(03-06-2013 02:30 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  He was a great redistributor-in-chief. RIP.

Yeah, from the people to him. So, you don't have a problem with the 1% now? Just trying to figure out your convictions.

When it all goes down, I'm coming to Evans, GA for your guns first.

Don't sing it, bring it. I'm sure my 8 years of training in the US Army, and my years from 6-18 being trained on all types of weapons from my father that was a Marine better equipped me for battle than your little law school. Please, make it happen. You need the address?

Naw, the government already knows where you live. I won't be coming alone. I'll have armored tanks, black helicopters, and predator drones.

We are from the government and we are here to help.......take away your guns.

Socialism. Helping the poor.

Quote:To stanch the flow of imports, the government last month announced a 46.5% devaluation of the currency, the bolivar. That made imported goods more expensive. But the move will bite the poor hardest because they spend a greater part of their incomes on imported household goods. Also hurting the poor, analysts said, is inflation that could exceed 30% this year — one of the three highest rates in the world.

The scarcity of vital household food items is a volatile issue that could undercut Maduro's authority. A recent Central Bank study found that 1 in 5 basic supermarket items, including cooking oil, sugar and chicken, can now be considered "scarce." The poor suffer most as scarce items are often found on the black market at prices far above government-set limits.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/...4669.story

Quote:The Ghost of Hugo Chávez

What has Chávez bequeathed his fellow Venezuelans? The hard facts are unmistakable: The oil-rich South American country is in shambles. It has one of the world’s highest rates of inflation, largest fiscal deficits, and fastest growing debts. Despite a boom in oil prices, the country’s infrastructure is in disrepair—power outages and rolling blackouts are common—and it is more dependent on crude exports than when Chávez arrived. Venezuela is the only member of OPEC that suffers from shortages of staples such as flour, milk, and sugar. Crime and violence skyrocketed during Chávez’s years. On an average weekend, more people are killed in Caracas than in Baghdad and Kabul combined. (In 2009, there were 19,133 murders in Venezuela, more than four times the number of a decade earlier.) When the grisly statistics failed to improve, the Venezuelan government simply stopped publishing the figures.

The political ideology Chávez left behind, Chavismo, was a demonstrable failure for the Venezuelan people, but it is not as if it ever failed Chávez himself. Despite his government’s poor showing, the Comandante’s platform secured him another six years in office, with a decisive 11-point victory, only five months ago. Will Maduro, Chávez’s handpicked successor, and his other cronies be able to pick up where the former president left off?

His successors would be in better shape if Chávez had been a typical South American strongman. But he wasn’t just another caudillo who stuffed ballot boxes and rounded up his enemies. As I describe in my book The Dictator’s Learning Curve, Chávez’s rule was far more sophisticated than such heavy-handed regimes. Like many authoritarian leaders, Chávez centralized power for his own use. Not long after taking office in 1999, he controlled every branch of government, the armed forces, the central bank, the state-owned oil company, most of the media, and any private sector business he chose to expropriate. But Venezuela never experienced massive human rights abuses. Dissidents didn’t disappear in the night, and for all Chavez’s professed love for Fidel Castro, his regime was never as repressive as Castro’s tropical dictatorship.

Slate

...but he amassed a fortune of over 2 billion dollars. Being super serial here, guys! He's for the little guy! The Progs have said so!

The 'little guy' being himself, of course.....