Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Guyana's president: Are new oil discoveries a curse? | Talk to Al Jazeera" video.

  1.  @imjustalilbit  When it isn't sports or entertainment.
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  2. Guyana is not a Black-majority country.
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  3. Gaddafi's model is not a model to emulate. Venezuela's management became inefficient under Chavez as production declined and he fired all the skilled personnel in favor of political friends.
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  4. And Guyana Blacks are not?
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  5. <They use to be the bread basket of the Caribbean.> When was that?
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  6.  @shaughn2011  It figures.
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  7. And not for as long as they continue to sit on their butts with their hands out.
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  8. Afro-Guyanese only make up 29% of the population. Nowhere near half.
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  9.  @squiggleworks9  Forbes Burnham, David Granger.
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  10. Afro-Guyanese only make up 29% of the population while Indo-Guyanese make up 40%.
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  11.  @jasonfordyce1556  China ditched the one-child policy back in 2017 because it's now messing up the demographics with too many elderly people to take care of.
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  12. And employ foreign migrants to build and maintain infrastructure?
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  13. Maybe, but Canada is not dependent on oil to pay its bills.
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  14. <what does it even mean "this resource curse"> Read up on how the Spanish Empire fell. Or the USSR after 1973 when oil was its primary source of income. Or even Venezuela. And the sanctions have little to do with it.
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  15. No thanks to foreign migrants and US military protection.
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  16. Unless you work in the oil industry.
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  17. Or Venezuela.
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  18. Kuwait benefits from US military protection.
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  19.  @DarlyaFaroeste  Exactly. And then we wonder why no one takes us seriously as a race. I'm black by the way.
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  20. It is. Falkland Island does not count as it's not an independent country but a UK territory.
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  21. So do Indian people.
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  22.  @richardp444  Exactly.
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  23. Nationalization = mismanagement, corruption, lack of accountability in regards to state monopoly, economic stagnation and ruin.
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  24.  @ZereayM  Nationalization bankrupted Guyana.
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