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2008-01-24 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Fred 2008-01-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 And the correct answer is....."27 Trucks!"

Posted by Besoeker 2008-01-24 03:50|| 2008-01-24 03:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Stephen Green ("Vodkapundit") calls Venezuela "Zimbabwe on the Caribbean." It's an apt description.

Posted by Mike 2008-01-24 11:22|| 2008-01-24 11:22|| Front Page Top

#3 zimbob aint got oil. Still its ever enlightening to see just how bad Chavez is screwing things up despite the oil income.

Posted by Dopey Flotle8127 2008-01-24 13:09|| 2008-01-24 13:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Venezuela's GDP is listed at $166B. Oil exports are around $50B of that, likely more in 2008. So no matter how much Hugo's Commie policies wreck the non oil economy, he can buy off the lower 50 percentile of the population with oil revenues. The more he wrecks the economy, the less resources the remaining population can muster resources against him.

The onus is on the US to develop domestic oil and alternative production. Low oil prices would take care of 80% of our foreign problems as well as slow the hemorrhaging of our own economy.

Posted by ed 2008-01-24 13:34|| 2008-01-24 13:34|| Front Page Top

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