bolivia socializes thier oil....................

[Junkie]

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The companies in Bolivia where paying less than a buck for every barrel of oil. They where paying one of the lowest taxes in the world, and the were not respecting the evironmental regulations. I think its good he took the companies from their hands, who knows how many billions of dollars the companies have made, while the Bolivians are still poor. Money for the people!!! Not for a single person.

[thesightless]

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ok, gimme YOUR money then.

[FM]

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I reduced it from 130px to 90px (high)

Be happy that it wasn't a billboard like what FM has in his sig

I like my sig's big what can I say?

[Junkie]

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ok, gimme YOUR money then.

So if companies are getting millions of dollars per day for the national resources of your country and they are investing all htat money on OTHER countries, you dont do squat? You just stay with your armds crossed and blink like Bush jr? Thats sad.

[Yao]

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Agree Junkie...unbelieveable how it still happens that with all this goddamn Western talk about the benefits of capitalism and democracy it's the biggest providers of our much needed natural resources that are still so fucking underdeveloped. Doesn't anyone see the hypocisy in that?

Capitalism is extractive and exclusive. Once it got established as the core system in the West, it could not allow rivals to arise. It won't do that now, but still we tell non-western countries the lie of development through participation in the capitalist system. I'm not against capitalism per sé or globalization, but totally against the hypocrism that is being displayed by Europe and the US.

[KinKyJ]

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So if companies are getting millions of dollars per day for the national resources of your country and they are investing all htat money on OTHER countries, you dont do squat? You just stay with your armds crossed and blink like Bush jr? Thats sad.

Yep it's sad that companies create employment.

Yep it's sad that companies and not politicians make enviromental laws

Yep it's sad that companies and not politicians make tax laws

Yep it's sad that commie cunts like you bite the hand which is feeding you.

[thesightless]

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umm look around and see reality bucko. the US economy is funding so may coutries with money, china, japan, mexico, panama, salvador etc. out buying power sends more money thier way than into our own hands. and in regards to you putting bush in the position of sitting on his hands.... do some research and see that it was the democrats who 1. voted for NAFTA. 2. voted for most favored trading status with china and japan. 3. voted to allow the workers unions more power in contract negotiation
all of which sent about 35 million jobs to south america and asia.

and frankly if it werent for those companies going there in the first place the industry wouldnt have given thousands of jobs to bolivian nationals, japanese manufacturing workers, and more... dont blame the US/brazilian/spanish comapanies for ""taking resources"" blame the fucking governments for allwing these companies to pay people shite wages and abuse labor laws....

im guessing you voted for kerry, did you realize that over 70% of heinz products are processed outside the US, and most of thier farms are on foreign soil... pot kettle black.

trust me im not a big bush fan, but look at reality and ALL the factors behind it. he is bad, but right now, the current economic problems are hardly his fault, if anything the one good thing he did was get teh US economy back on track. you people think the world went to shit the day he was elected, but it was going downhill before he got here and it will get worse when he leaves.

[thesightless]

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hey we could have had him.



god bless the idiots on the far right and left. giving cannon fodder for people who can see both sides.

[c0caine]

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Bolivia is getting enough from Cocaine,i think all the investors and the government will take the right choice in that situation

[thesightless]

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simply put, left wing social policy works extremely well, but their economic and criminal policies dont. there is a balance somewhere, maybe one day we will find it.

[Junkie]

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there is a balance somewhere, maybe one day we will find it.

hell yeah.

[luxio]

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??????

[Xessex]

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you people think the world went to shit the day he was elected, but it was going downhill before he got here and it will get worse when he leaves.

I hope so, i would love to see some shifting powers over the world, and me with my future job can benefit from that. Besides the US has little old history anywayzs and sure dont like the way their cities are build (same for Canada). So quite frankly i find that the US has little charms culturally spoken (with the excepetion of a few natural eyecatcher). I wouldn't mind that part of the world getting poor and not being able to maintain property...would even make the american cities somewhat interesting. But what i'm saying now could count in lesser amount too for my own country...most is ugly in new state in Holland as well. Would be fun if the whole economy collapse down here too...

[thesightless]

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what the fuck is wrong with you? are you an anarchist? why would you want another depression? it wil only lead to another massive war as every depression in the last 400 years has. if anything, wish sucess on worldwide businesses so they can expand into poor nations and at least fund a payroll in some towns as to at least plant some money into a ghetto so they can spend it and start an economic foundation. if someone opened up a factory in sudan whereas they employed a few hundred people at a fair wage then those few hundred people could spend money in a local market thereby allowing more people to spend...

[Yao]

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On a related note though: the US economy is floating on the oil dollar - the moment it is let go and changed for the euro, the US economy will collapse. It has already been described as the biggest bubble in the planet, and economists are actually proposing to let the economy 'cool down', something like a controlled recession as far as I can judge.

Not being an asshole here, this is not my opinion. I'm really interested to see future developments regarding this though. What do you think about this, Sean?