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2007-03-04 Caribbean-Latin America

Rich Venezuelans, alarmed by Chavez's socialism, head to Florida

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Posted by Fred 2007-03-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Cubans move back, they move in.

Posted by anonymous2u 2007-03-04 01:06|| 2007-03-04 01:06|| Front Page Top

#2 So we get the rich, smart capitalists and Hugo gets poor, stupid socialists? Rockin! I'll buy that for a dollar!

Posted by Secret Master 2007-03-04 02:19|| 2007-03-04 02:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Can we exchange them for Alec Baldwin and Cindy "Tongue Kissed Hugo" Sheehan?

Posted by ed 2007-03-04 02:27|| 2007-03-04 02:27|| Front Page Top

#4 We don't want or need this. Those educated professionals should stay and fight for their country before the Hugonauts become completely entrenched and we have an oil-rich Cuba on our hands.

Posted by regular joe 2007-03-04 08:51|| 2007-03-04 08:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Nothing should be free! Declare Forida, Texas, California, and Arizona Federal Foreign Resettlement Zones (FFRZ) and create a special lifetime IRS tax for those entering from other lands. This would discourage float-bys and help even the score a bit in health care, law enforcement and education.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-03-04 09:37|| 2007-03-04 09:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Give me your jet setters, your rich, your spacious mansioned few yearning to shop till they drop. The Gucci clad privileged of your oil endowed shore. Send these, the fatted calves, mob tossed to me, I open my international bank accounts and investments beside our golden arches.

Give them enough time to take a very short vacation on their way to Spain.

Tell me the difference between these twits who made the problem and the Californians who are cashing in after socializing their state and taking their gains to other states in order to begin the cycle of economic and cultural contamination?

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-03-04 09:38|| 2007-03-04 09:38|| Front Page Top

#7 before the Hugonauts become completely entrenched and we have an oil-rich Cuba on our hands.

Missed the article yesterday where the oil companies were seriously planning to cut and run if Chavez continues his attempted grab of their assets?
Concensus is if they leave, the oil money stops instantly, and the venezuelan finance minister is sweating bullets, the oil companies are NOT playing, "Screw with us and we ruin you" is the message here.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-03-04 10:49|| 2007-03-04 10:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Tell me the difference between these twits who made the problem and the Californians who are cashing in after socializing their state and taking their gains to other states in order to begin the cycle of economic and cultural contamination?

Uh, I vote Republican?

Posted by Secret Master 2007-03-04 16:56|| 2007-03-04 16:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Simply put, the Venezuelans that are fleeing Chavez did NOT put him into power : he won riding the poor and Indian vote into office. The wealthy and educated overwhelmingly {upwards of 90%} voted AGAINST Chavez. These are the individuals of means and education that are fleeing the storm that will swamp their homeland, and we want them to come here and become very grateful to us. That way, when Chavez gets himself overthrown and executed, the very people needed to rebuild the country will be in the US and we will have a certain measure of control over them.
Also, the oil industry in Venezuela is very dependent on US expertise, refineries, and equipment : Venezuela crude is thick, gooey, sulfuric crap that takes a specific refinery setup to crack into anything resembling a useful product. If Exxon and the others leave, Chavez has 6 months before the oil industry collapses around him.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-03-04 21:02|| 2007-03-04 21:02|| Front Page Top

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