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Venezuela's Socialist Leader Maduro Doing His Best Obama Impersonation

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Because apparently all great socialist thinkers went to the same school:

  • VENEZUELA SHOULD OBTAIN MORE TAXES FROM WEALTHY, MADURO SAYS
  • MADURO SAYS HE PROPOSES FISCAL ‘REVOLUTION’

And, as Bloomberg reports, "I will call on the people to launch an economic offensive superior to the one in November and December"... "Economic actions to focus on production, supply and fair prices"


Because it appears that "fairly" sharing teleprompters is also part of the great socialist mandate.

 

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Tue, 04/15/2014 - 18:40 | 4663131 Yen Cross
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   It would be even more believable if Maduro had his thumb up his ass.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 18:45 | 4663141 StacksOnStacks
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Los pantalones están en llamas

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 18:47 | 4663149 PRO.223
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Not a real impersonation without the telepromptor.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 18:51 | 4663168 McMolotov
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"El queso esta viejo y podrido." —Encino Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZA1DuB8NIE

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 19:02 | 4663203 Charles Wilson
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YenCross stated: "It would be even more believable if Maduro had his thumb up his ass."

It won't fit. His head's in the way.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 18:44 | 4663143 darteaus
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Instead of his head?

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 19:03 | 4663206 Charles Wilson
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Ooops.  Sorry.  I stepped on your line...

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 18:45 | 4663144 DoChenRollingBearing
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But, YC, he does have his thumb up his ass!

 

O/T

I look at articles that include why the rich would invest in horses and how you can break into Ft. Knox (ahh, no!).  The magazine continues to crank out good articles.

"Review of American Hard Assets"

http://tinyurl.com/l58aecm

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 18:49 | 4663156 Berspankme
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There's that "fair" word again. Such benevolent leaders we have.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 19:49 | 4663355 jldpc
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Sir - you are a peach; I cannot stop laughing!

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 01:57 | 4664152 Silver Bug
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Sadly, there isn't much difference.

 

http://jimrickards.blogspot.ca/

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 18:42 | 4663138 The Shootist
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The GOP and Megan McCain support this message.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 18:43 | 4663139 darteaus
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The Socialist dead end was warned about 3500 years ago:

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 18:44 | 4663142 nmewn
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Ok, who's up for setting up a smuggling ring for toilet paper?

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 18:57 | 4663188 kaiserhoff
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One Krugerrand for a case of Charmin?  I'm in.

It sounds impossible, but a friend who was a history major swears that before the civil war, one pound of cotton sold for an ounce of gold.

and anyway, shit happens;)

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 18:59 | 4663191 nmewn
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Send lawyers, guns & Charmin, the shit has hit the fan!...lol.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 18:45 | 4663145 piceridu
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I'm no fan of Chavez or Maduro but this country has been under seige. The US desperately wants to control the resources of Venezuela. Why? Because it has the highest oil reserves in the world. 

Ever wonder why we have such a high standard of living and people from countries like Venezuela, Mexico, Nigeria et al, with such vast natural resources, are standing in line to get toilet paper?

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 18:54 | 4663176 Chuck Walla
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...with such vast natural resources, are standing in line to get toilet paper?

Because their leadership steals more than they use on the people?

 

FORWARD SOVIET!

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 18:56 | 4663185 Clayton Bigsby
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You're fuckin with us, right?

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 19:03 | 4663205 nmewn
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The socialists nationalized just about every industry they have man, including oil.

They're being raped by socialist-oligarchs dude, they can't even get Hugo's brat little daughters out of the "presidential palace" cuz they're considered divine diva's or some shit.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 21:24 | 4663657 calltoaccount
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"socialist-oligarchs"?   is that like benevolent despots?

oligarchs are sociopaths.  they buy/bribe/bend all economic systems to their self-centered self-interest with zero concern for the general welfare of the people--  you know, "general Welfare"-- as in the Preamble to the US Constitution...

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 06:35 | 4664349 nmewn
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Exactly right.

What else can we call the type of people who demand (through coercion of law) that perfectly normal, young healthy people buy health insurance from corporations, corporations whose only real concerns & motivations are, profit?

Socialist-Oligarchs = Despots-Tyrants.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 19:09 | 4663222 twh99
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That is a very good question.  However before you look at external players, look at the country itself and what it does to its citizens!

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 20:19 | 4663484 dougngen
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No I don't wonder at all. The socialists have seized all major industries and crushed production. How or why would someone produce something and sell it at a loss? Market forces at work jr. Get government out of the way and production skyrockets, prices fall as a result. Don't take a rocket scientistt

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 05:42 | 4664314 newdoobie
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Before it went socialist the capitalists stole them blind. The leaders there just changed parties.

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 07:50 | 4664473 Freewheelin Franklin
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Because price controls always lead to shortages. 

 

End of story. 

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 18:48 | 4663155 q99x2
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But is every word a lie?

And, his origin of birth, and his name and his race and his religion and where he went to college and I mean every fucking thing about him a fucking lie?

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 18:50 | 4663164 Berspankme
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are you rayciss?

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 19:16 | 4663245 moonshadow
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racist? against which half? it only counts if it's against the black half you know

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 18:54 | 4663175 Emergency Ward
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Tell-tale sign of Latin American toilet paper.  Check the oversized diameter of the cardboard tube.  Same way they do it in Mexico.  Looks the same on the outside, less wipes per roll.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 19:01 | 4663199 QQQBall
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Not if you deposit it in the little bin for the next guy to use the other side. :)

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 19:13 | 4663239 smacker
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Same in Brazil.

Which leads me to rant about exorbitant prices in Brazil. Check the ingredients of a 1 litre carton of orange juice and what do you find? typically 35% water. Yet Brazil apparently is the world's largest producer of oranges. And the price is 2x or 3x the price of 100% juice in London. Go figure.

Big money and their cohorts in the socialist government in Brazil are ripping people off to an incredible extent, but few people realise it.

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 01:36 | 4664129 Quantum Nucleonics
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If they followed the Chery Crow 1 square rule they'd be running a toilet paper surplus.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 18:55 | 4663180 Peter Pan
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As Thatcher once said, the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

The problem with US style capitalism is that the people eventually run out of money.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 19:02 | 4663202 Ariadne
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Wealthy Venezuelans should invest more in private armies and high tech air defense systems. If instead of trusting the Fabian wolves Bill Gates had done this when he became a billionaire, Microsoft wouldn't be the first strike weapon of global oppression that it has always been.

Matthew 7:6 bitchez.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 19:09 | 4663223 Latitude25
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Obama is not a socialist.  Socialist countries give their citizens:

1.  free medical care

2.  free education through college

3.  extended government paid maternity leave

4.  subsistence food allotment

5.  subsidized transportation

6.  capital controls and corporate confiscation

7.  travel restrictions and political repression

Obama is a corporate stooge.  The US is nothing like Cuba.  That's where Maduro is taking Venezuela.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 19:16 | 4663246 Rising Sun
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Yes, but Venezuela is a hyperinflated shitbag country.

 

In the US you don't have to line up for hours to get toilet paper.

 

And nothing is free - the nazis/socialists take 10 and return 1 and the lemmings are too fucking stupid and compliant to figure it out.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 19:18 | 4663258 shovelhead
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Socialist countries give their citizens

O Rly?

Can I ask where those Govt.s get the money to pay for all that FREE STUFF ?

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 19:26 | 4663271 Latitude25
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That's part of financial repression.  Outrageous taxes.  And by the way if you want to see socialism in action then go visit Cuba.  Don't take my word for it.  Get out and explore the world so you can make intelligent decisions about right and wrong

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 04:53 | 4664287 Azannoth
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I don't need to go to Cuba to see socialism I live in Europe my friend!

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 22:01 | 4663760 moneybots
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Obama is not a socialist.  Socialist countries give their citizens:

1.  free medical care

2.  free education through college

3.  extended government paid maternity leave

 

None of that is free, even in a socialist country.  Doctors and professors do not work for free.  There is no government paid, the tax payers pay.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 22:21 | 4663818 Latitude25
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I never doubted for one second that it has to be paid for some way.  One thing about socialist countries though is that doctors and educators are not highly paid so the cost is significantly lower than in the US.  When I say "free" I mean that when you walk in it is already prepaid.  

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 01:43 | 4664134 Quantum Nucleonics
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Nothing in life of value is free.  You are always paying something, if not in fiat currency then in liberty.

Cuban medical care being great is one of those awful myths.  Had Chavez gone to the Mayo Clinic, he'd probably still be alive.

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 02:46 | 4664186 Latitude25
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Where did I say the Cuban system was great?  You must think it's great.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 19:13 | 4663237 Hohum
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Since most of the wealthy don't create wealth but rather burn through the fossil fuel endowment (see increased sales of Maseratis and Lamborghinis), why not tax them?  As for the wealth creators, whoever they may be, lower their taxes.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 20:04 | 4663414 kchrisc
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It is always possible that you are correct, but you will need to read this before any discussion commences.

https://mises.org/books/econforrealpeople.pdf

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 20:22 | 4663492 dougngen
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You sir, are an idiot.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 19:16 | 4663238 silverserfer
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So the great maduro is the almighty bunghole? he needs TP for his bunghhole right? Isin't lake titicacca in Venezuela?

ARE YOU THREATENING ME!!!!?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKP-bVViPX8

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 19:30 | 4663296 Latitude25
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I like your geography knowledge.  Where's the Ukraine?

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 19:39 | 4663318 silverserfer
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north of the black sea but south of your moms taint known as the "straight of hairass" by the local men.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 19:17 | 4663254 medium giraffe
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He no doubt pissed off to the back nine shortly after.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 19:32 | 4663298 The Dismalist
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Back in the late eighties some friends of mine had the idea that we would smuggle blue jeans into the USSR as a way to make money for college. Looks like it's time to update the business plan for Venezuala and basic consumer goods. 

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 22:24 | 4663304 Latitude25
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So if China is not socialist then what is it?  It's still run by the Communist party and they're kicking US ass economically.  I like the downvotes and none of you pussies have an answer.

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 07:21 | 4664415 messystateofaffairs
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Names, names, names, all without meanings. China and the US are two different types of criminal systems built on nuanced redistribution with a smattering of free enterprise mixed in for funtionality.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 19:54 | 4663357 buzzsaw99
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the billionaires force people to buy bullshit stocks so there's really no difference. in the end the usa crapitalist sheep without social security won't be able to afford tp either.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 20:25 | 4663506 dougngen
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They force you to buy,stocks?? That's crazy!! I buy pm and land because I want too! Where do you live, California or Chicago?

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 20:01 | 4663400 kchrisc
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Tax which wealthy more?

The blood suckers that use the power and violence of government to extract wealth from victims they call customers. The banksters, Wall Streeters, corporate monopolies, health insurance firms, etc.?

Or the other group that produces goods and services for their fellow mankind by way of accumulated savings, capital, and/or hard work?

The first group will just increase their gouging while the second will just go out of business.

 

"Tax the banksters. One head at a time."

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 20:10 | 4663439 kchrisc
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In the history of the world, collectivism, even with willing participants, has failed. Anyone that understands the true reason for our Thanksgiving will know this.

What better proof than a country rich in a very high-priced commodity failing?!

Collectivism is like jumping off of a cliff in an attempt to fly. It seems to work for a while.

 

"My guillotine is a collectivist. It collects heads."

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 20:12 | 4663454 Kirk2NCC1701
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If Maduro is going to act like an ass, he should at least have enough TP to cover his rear.

If he wants a monetary revolution, he should decouple from fiat: Use bitcoin plus gold. Oh, wait, if they can't get TP, how the frigg are gold and Bitcoin gonna work down there? Duh, silly me.

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 20:16 | 4663470 djsmps
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Did he mention that there will be costs?

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 00:53 | 4664092 thamnosma
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Venezuela is consuming itself.  You are looking at the future of the USA.

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 04:03 | 4664253 macroeconomist
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One needs to be as stupid and illiterate as a Mises fan to liken Maduro to Obama. Because apparently all public enemies went to the same school...

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 05:57 | 4664321 damicol
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Sadly the one thing in common all these fucking retarded cunts have is a slobbering idle bought and paid for brain-dead underachieving half witted moronic set of retarded fuck wits that still believe in fairy's and free lunch and fuck knows what else apart from the suspension of all known laws of physics and economics  and still STILL vote for them.

Just take one look around you , and gaze into the dribbling slack jawed waste of fucking space with an IQ lower than a piglets trotter size and  called a fucking democrat voter and then seriously, tell me that they deserve to live in a Darwinian real world.

Maduro might well be the most filthy evil knuckle dragging offspring of some low hanging bitch monkey and a deranged perverted Venezuelan nigger, but if the smart Venezuelans want to survive they will  just get this piece of shit killed and the sooner the better

And that goes doubly for the insane monkey in the Whitehouse.

Now I can see they might have the same father in common , or could be the same slack bitch monkey

 

 

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 07:14 | 4664401 messystateofaffairs
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I could be wrong on this but I take it you don't like Madura, or the bozo either? How about black or blackish people, you're a Darwinist, you came from a monkey too.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 01:47 | 4668423 damicol
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whatever gave you that idea .

 As far as being a dawinist, yes its true, the difference being as in your case I assume too, that it was thousands of generation ago  when my ancestors  climbed trees and not  in the last generation when these scum who seem to have been dropped fom monkey wombs in the Kenyan and Venezualan jungle

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 07:06 | 4664385 messystateofaffairs
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"great socialist thinker"is an oxymoron

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 07:46 | 4664463 kurt
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Cue the Nazi saluting south american leader... oh that's good we can just paste his face on Hugo Chavez's body. Do we go for the long or the slow kill? Go Democracy!

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 07:56 | 4664481 Freewheelin Franklin
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I AM THE GREAT CORNHOLIO. YOU WILL GIVE ME TP FOR MY BUNGHOLE. 

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