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Old 03-12-2013, 09:15 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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While Chavez enjoys a great deal of popular support and has indeed made improvements to education and healthcare....it hasn't all been a bed of roses there. Infringement on the free press is not exactly a glowing mark on his resume.
Not like here in America where news organizations have the freedom to post lies and call it "news."
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Old 03-12-2013, 09:17 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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...and, along the way, Chavez managed to accrue a family fortune estimated at 2 billion dollars!

Somehow the missionaries to Hawaii come to mind: "They came to do good works, and they did very well indeed!"
Gee, people who accrue massive wealth, at the expense of others, are worshiped by conservatives in this country.
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Old 03-12-2013, 09:17 AM
 
Location: deafened by howls of 'racism!!!'
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What?

Is this post some sort of joke?
'fraid not, jojo.

Venezuela stations are hit by shortages of gasoline, diesel
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Old 03-12-2013, 09:19 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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Everybody gets to live on the hilltops in Chavez's social paradise!
At least give us the link to your photo. That could have been taken in 1960 for all we know.
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Old 03-12-2013, 09:20 AM
 
Location: Central Texas
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Not like here in America where news organizations have the freedom to post lies and call it "news."
The freedom to post lies is better than just posting what the government says you can post. Since there are many news outlets - we can count on MSNBC offering a different perspective than FOXnews.

Don't you see the difference?
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Old 03-12-2013, 09:24 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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The new educated people will end up in South Florida like the earlier ones. Why would they waste their lives in Venezuela where they know their skills will not be appreciated?
So your point is don't educate them?
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Old 03-12-2013, 09:27 AM
 
Location: Florida
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So your point is don't educate them?
Is that what I said?

No, it is not what I said.

Don't tryt to put words in my mouth.
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Old 03-12-2013, 09:34 AM
 
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Is that what I said?

No, it is not what I said.

Don't tryt to put words in my mouth.
Educate them or not?
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Old 03-12-2013, 09:58 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Educate them or not?
I said nothing about whether or not they should educate people.

I said Chavez policy drove out the educated people, to which someone else said it didn't matter because they are educating more people to replace them. My point is to say that the policy has already proven to drive out educated people, and it will also drive out the new graduates. Sure, they can educate them, but it will not help Venezuela, if they flee the country as soon as they can.

Get it?
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Old 03-12-2013, 12:07 PM
 
Location: Bella Vista, Ark
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Not like here in America where news organizations have the freedom to post lies and call it "news."
and you think the news in other countries is all true? I do not think you really believe that. Yes, our news is news but often either slanted or as in some cases leaked before the entire story can be told, but usually sooner or later we do hear the whole or the most of any story...This isn't the way it works in many countries.

Oh and what conservatives have accumulated their wealth at the hands of others?
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