Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "The Oil Bust Crippling Venezuela's Economy" video.

  1.  @Pekulte  LOL. No. It's just Venezuela running its natural socialist course.
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  2. No. This is socialism in practice. Everyone except the elite and the well-connected suffer equally.
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  3. Exactly.
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  4. Tankies should be forced to live under what they advocate.
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  5. Socialism and dictatorship goes hand in hand as even Marx advocated for a centralized entity to oversee the process.
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  6. Nope.
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  7. The sanctions are of little consequence as Venezuela seized and ran the economy into the ground.
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  8. The same democratic socialism that bankrupted Greece?
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  9. They have their oil, but it's unusable.
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  10. Nope. Just socialism doing what socialism usually does.
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  11. Funny how you never mention the wholesale destruction of private enterprise by Chavez and Maduro leaving Venezuela with nothing to fall back on should it be sanctioned and/or the oil industry collapse.
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  12. Nah. It's neo-Marxism doing its damage.
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  13.  @robertanderson1301  BS!
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  14. They traded away their-self-sufficiency for government handouts. If not that, then it's illegal and dangerous to grow their own food as they have to worry about having it all confiscated by the government and its appointed foot-soldiers.
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  15. And I guess the wholesale nationalization and the subsequent mismanagement and degradation of the economy has nothing to do with it.
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  16. This is about socialism. And the latter is only possible by capitalist (taxpayers) money propping it up.
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  17. Venezuela is functionally socialist as it barely has any private enterprise anymore.
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