Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "BBC News" channel.

+jaggafeen You're the one obsessed with sex and making extremely descriptive suggestions of bizarre sex acts. Get your mind out of the gutter and stop acting like a randy teenager. Is sex all you can think about?
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@burtonl7239 I worked in a factory in Canada and we made toilet paper. Back in 2013, we suddenly couldn't get any raw paper. It went on for a couple of months. Finally, we heard that all the raw paper was being used to make toilet paper for Chavez because he promised 5 million cases to the people who were pissed they didn't have any. They laid off some of us due to lack of work. Hard to believe that a crisis in Venezuela affected us in Canada. That's when I first realised how badly things were going down there. It just doesn't seem possible that a country, so rich in raw materials, could destroy themselves so thoroughly. Good luck to the people of Venezuela. They're going to need it and it's going to require a lot of hard work to dig themselves out of this mess.
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@youaake Why would they stop selling oil to the US? Why would that matter, anyway? China wants oil. So does Europe....and India. What about Japan? There are 7 BILLION people in the world. The US only has 350 million. There are more customers than the US. Besides, the US is the number one oil producer in the world. They don't need Venezuelan oil that bad. Venezuela has mismanaged it's economy for decades. They took oil revenue and used it to prop up socialist programs and any business man will tell you that this is not sustainable. Then the government fixed prices on normal household goods. Eventually, businesses, stores, were buying products for more than they could sell them and the owners went bankrupt. The government would nationalise those stores and that would be the end of them. Other areas of the economy were nationalised and they went bankrupt as well. The government does not create wealth. Their prime goal is to maintain power and they will use any wealth to appease the people so they will not overthrow them. Once your socialist government becomes corrupt, the country will rot from the inside out. Not one socialist economy is a rich economy. It has never happened yet and there is no reason to think that it should have worked in Venezuela. These conspiracy theories are just looking to blame anyone but where the blame really lies. The corrupt government of a socialist state. That's a sure fire recipe for disaster.
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@burtonl7239 Thanks. We had no idea for awhile why it was we couldn't get any paper. It had never happened before. It went on for about 5 months. I didn't get laid off due to seniority but others did. Eventually, the industry sorted it all out and we started to get the raw material we needed. I would imagine that they increased production at some of the pulp mills to make up the difference. From what I'm seeing, they're probably not getting any toilet paper now, either. I don't have to worry about my job anymore, though, as I retired 2 years ago. I'm thinking the entire industry has compensated for the crisis down there by now.
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@youaake Sanctions didn't start until 2015, only 4 years ago. The country was already spiralling out of control. A cursory google search will tell confirm this. It would also confirm that the US is still Venezuela's biggest trading partner. However, you'd rather advance your cause against the US than find out what is truly going on in that country. Read my previous comment on the toilet paper shortage in 2013. It wasn't lack of trade that caused it. It was the government policy of fixing prices that was the issue and that product was being purchased by merchants at a higher price than what they could sell it for. Anyone with any degree of math skills will tell you that this isn't going to work for very long. In fact, Chavez appeased the anger of the people by buying toilet paper at inflated prices and then sold it to the people at the fixed price that caused the problem in the first place. Where did he get the money? From the oil revenue that the nationalised oil company generated. He solved the immediate problem through the use of world trade. This is only one example of what that government was doing that destroyed their economy. Now, they're in serious trouble. There is no way out but through drastic measures and that has to be done whether the US is involved or not. A country, just like a private household, cannot survive if it spends more than it makes. Mike Tyson is a prime example of this. The man had millions....but he's broke. Venezuela did the exact same thing the Tyson did, except at a larger scale.
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It's worse than that. Young teenagers, going through the angst of puberty, are being told that their anxieties are likely caused by gender dysphoria. They're given packaged solutions which can result in big profits for those selling those solutions. Throw ideology into the mix and guess who bears the brunt of their idealism and greed. Teenagers and their families....and if you question these ideological and economic profiteers, they hide behind their accusations of bigotry. Incredibly, people are falling for this scam.
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The Great of Beam Strange that the of the top 20 most productive nations in the world, not one is a country that is run by a government that controls everything. Everyone of them are capitalist economies. If you want to see efficiency, just go to a supermarket of a shopping mall. Stores shelves filled with produce of all kinds that never seem to be empty. Again, these are countries with capitalist economies. It kind of flies in the face of your claim of productivity and efficiency. As a matter of fact, any country that has even attempted your type of socialism has failed miserably. It's a paper dream.
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When the morally superior attack.......
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I'm not going to criticise Cohen or Barnes because they're individuals and I don't know their personal stories, but the BBC refused to cover this stuff until AFTER they announced the clinic was to be closed. They should have been reporting on it when the rise in referrals skyrocketed. A 4000% increase in referrals to the Tavistock clinic is more than enough to raise eyebrows. There's no way a single referral could balloon to 4000 in less than 10 years.
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My mom was 5' 2" and Dutch. It happens.
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@youaake The first thing that a person has to realise that when they fail...it's their own fault. It means that you didn't understand what was happening around you. You don't fail because of someone else. You fail because you didn't do what had to be done. You live in a life of blame. You've already lost and you haven't even started. The worst part is....you don't even get what it is I'm talking about.
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Jose Adriani Buselli That's deep. You're like a modern day Plato or something.
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