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How the fuck is China a socialist failure?
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Date: August 14th, 2016 12:29 PM
Author: offensive motley love of her life

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/06/hugo_chavezs_economic_miracle/

When a country goes socialist and it craters, it is laughed off as a harmless and forgettable cautionary tale about the perils of command economics. When, by contrast, a country goes socialist and its economy does what Venezuela’s did, it is not perceived to be a laughing matter – and it is not so easy to write off or to ignore. It suddenly looks like a threat to the corporate capitalism, especially when said country has valuable oil resources that global powerhouses like the United States rely on.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182475)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 1:15 PM
Author: Canary trust fund trailer park

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182786)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 2:57 PM
Author: snowy generalized bond



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31183634)



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Date: January 26th, 2017 11:25 AM
Author: Flickering voyeur orchestra pit

This is the same shithead who wrote this article:

"Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American"

http://www.salon.com/2013/04/16/lets_hope_the_boston_marathon_bomber_is_a_white_american/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#32464063)



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Date: March 15th, 2018 4:13 PM
Author: Canary trust fund trailer park

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Amazing 2013 chart from the @Guardian abt Venezuela's economy under Chavez...but oil reliance later hurt the country

5:00 PM - 15 May 2016

https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/731997663768403969?lang=en

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#35613040)



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Date: December 1st, 2016 7:57 PM
Author: thriller kitty institution

whoops

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#32035212)



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Date: August 1st, 2017 10:10 PM
Author: wild double fault



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#33900008)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 12:30 PM
Author: Onyx Comical Bawdyhouse Internal Respiration

lol nice find

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182480)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 12:30 PM
Author: gaped bright stage depressive



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182482)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 12:31 PM
Author: Swollen pontificating fat ankles



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182486)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 1:11 PM
Author: Filthy garrison



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182742)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 12:31 PM
Author: crawly home volcanic crater

"When a country goes socialist and it craters, it is laughed off as a harmless and forgettable cautionary tale about the perils of command economics."

Actually it's never harmless nor forgettable, though I'm sure hardcore left-wingers would love to view socialist failures as such.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182485)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 12:34 PM
Author: violent garnet box office

Oh what a harmless USSR, Cambodia and China!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182501)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 12:39 PM
Author: splenetic chocolate legend base

How the fuck is China a socialist failure?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182534)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 12:42 PM
Author: mildly autistic hell

I'd say the millions of Mao's victims rotting in the dirt right now would not consider it a complete success.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182551)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 1:12 PM
Author: Canary trust fund trailer park



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182755)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 1:23 PM
Author: violent garnet box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182869)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 1:35 PM
Author: splenetic chocolate legend base

(Non-responsive and faggy)

If you define failure as people NOT dying then Venezuela is not a failure, in fact, it is a great success

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182953)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 1:41 PM
Author: Canary trust fund trailer park

Socialism failed so badly in China that tens of millions of people starved to death directly because of Mao's socialist policies, you brain-dead mongoloid.

At Mao's death, China's per capita GDP was lower than most sub-Saharan African countries.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182994)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 1:43 PM
Author: splenetic chocolate legend base

Mao took China through necessary preparation to get where they are now.

Also a lie as to claim about Africa

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31183007)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 1:51 PM
Author: Canary trust fund trailer park

OK, you are clearly retarded.

Ethiopia GDP per capita 1980: $312

China GDP per capita 1980: $312

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31183075)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 2:56 PM
Author: splenetic chocolate legend base

"At Mao's death, China's per capita GDP was lower than most sub-Saharan African countries"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31183629)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 8:15 PM
Author: mildly autistic hell

what? The pro-market reforms that came after Mao are the only reason China is doing well. Collectivization and forced industrialization were completely unnecessary.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31185693)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 8:37 PM
Author: Clear tattoo step-uncle's house

Agree. It was only through his bold willingness to completely decimate his country via asinine communist policies could it be later opened up to the benefits of market capitalism.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31185841)



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Date: December 13th, 2016 6:53 PM
Author: Marvelous chad queen of the night

okay, i lol'd

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#32132513)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 12:33 PM
Author: offensive motley love of her life

"in this oil-rich country the only thing imploding is poverty"

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/07/venezuela-not-greece-latin-america-oil-poverty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182497)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 1:19 PM
Author: Canary trust fund trailer park

(((Mark Weisbrot)))

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182826)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 2:57 PM
Author: snowy generalized bond



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31183638)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 12:35 PM
Author: mildly autistic hell

Completely bizarre that someone can write an article like this without making oil a major focus. It is like the idiots pointing to Norway's economic success as proof of the viability of a high-tax welfare state.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182507)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 12:36 PM
Author: offensive motley love of her life

All of the left-leaning governments in South America -- Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia and Uruguay -- have been re-elected, some repeatedly, for similar reasons: they have brought real economic and social change and significant improvements in living standards for the majority.

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/01/03/venezuela-post-chavez/venezuelans-will-vote-with-their-wallets

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182510)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 12:37 PM
Author: offensive motley love of her life

http://cepr.net/publications/op-eds-columns/long-awaited-apocalypse-not-likely-in-venezuela

For more than a decade people opposed to the government of Venezuela – which today includes almost all major Western media outlets – have argued that the Venezuelan economy would implode. Like communists in the 1930s rooting for the final crisis of capitalism, they generally saw Venezuela’s economic collapse as just around the corner. How frustrating it has been for them to witness only two recessions: one directly caused by the opposition’s oil strike (December 2002-May 2003) and one brought on by the world recession (2009 and the first half of 2010). Despite these recessions, the whole decade’s economic performance – the government got control of the national oil company in 2003 – turned out quite well, with average annual growth of real income per person of 2.7 percent, poverty reduced by more than half, and large gains for the majority in employment, access to health care, pensions, and education.

Now Venezuela is facing economic problems that are warming the cockles of the haters’ hearts. We see the bad news every day (Western reporting on Venezuela is almost exclusively bad news, as if by decree): consumer prices up 49 percent over the last year; a black market where the dollar fetches seven times the official rate; shortages of consumer goods from milk to toilet paper; the economy slowing, Central Bank reserves falling. Will those who cried wolf for so long finally see their dreams come true?

Not likely. In the opposition and international media’s analysis, Venezuela is caught in an inflation-devaluation spiral, where rising prices domestically undermine confidence in the economy and currency, causing capital flight and driving up the black market price of the dollar. This adds to inflation, as does – in their theory – money creation by the government. And the government’s price controls, nationalizations, and other interventions have caused more distortions and structural problems that will hasten the economy’s demise. Hyperinflation, rising foreign debt, and a balance of payments crisis will mark the end of this economic experiment, they hope and pray each day.

But how can a government with more than $90 billion in oil revenue end up with a balance of payments crisis? Well, the answer is, it can’t, and won’t.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182520)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 12:41 PM
Author: Sinister travel guidebook

https://usefulstooges.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/weisbrot5.jpg?w=389&h=289

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182546)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 1:18 PM
Author: Canary trust fund trailer park

(((Mark Weisbrot)))

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182817)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 1:44 PM
Author: multi-colored crusty theater stage

But how can a government with more than $90 billion in oil revenue end up with a balance of payments crisis? Well, the answer is, it can’t, and won’t.

Lololololololololololololololol



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31183017)



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Date: August 15th, 2016 4:25 PM
Author: Jet whorehouse

i wish mainstream media articles could be blankbumped.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31191942)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 12:38 PM
Author: Pearl jewess

You happy Trumpmos? You are what libs used to be

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182521)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 12:38 PM
Author: Sinister travel guidebook

http://i.imgur.com/4YeTE.jpg

The author. By the way, he claims to be a spokesman for the democrats. God help us.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182532)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 12:43 PM
Author: Onyx Comical Bawdyhouse Internal Respiration

lol he's doing the Zoolander face

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182559)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 1:15 PM
Author: Canary trust fund trailer park

the (((author)))

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182780)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 12:43 PM
Author: harsh fragrant dingle berry

if only the republicans had let the dems ban fracking, the good times would have continued for venezuela

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182554)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 1:13 PM
Author: stirring fuchsia property



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31182761)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 8:39 PM
Author: Galvanic brass resort

JFC- how can the reptiles not use this shit to their advantage?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31185854)



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Date: August 14th, 2016 8:40 PM
Author: cheese-eating contagious milk area

180 things are going great there now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31185866)



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Date: August 15th, 2016 4:23 PM
Author: offensive motley love of her life



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Date: August 15th, 2016 4:25 PM
Author: electric spruce tanning salon death wish

Idiot Sanders supporter. Up there with Glen Greenwald in shitlib bufoonery

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#31191937)



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Date: December 13th, 2016 6:38 PM
Author: Lascivious sanctuary

"For so long portrayed in the west as a buffoon or a socialist firebrand, this immensely important political figure has suddenly begun to be treated with dignity and respect."

http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/world-affairs/2013/01/hugo-chavez-man-against-world



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#32132380)



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Date: December 13th, 2016 6:41 PM
Author: Mint shivering old irish cottage corn cake



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#32132402)



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Date: December 13th, 2016 6:41 PM
Author: Lascivious sanctuary

2013

Room for Debate

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/01/03/venezuela-post-chavez



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#32132398)



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Date: December 13th, 2016 6:46 PM
Author: light narrow-minded market circlehead

Mark Weisbrot is such a fucking piece of shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#32132444)



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Date: December 13th, 2016 6:52 PM
Author: ivory site

Oh JFC libs I can't believe there was actually a link in this thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#32132500)



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Date: December 13th, 2016 7:37 PM
Author: wild double fault

insane

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#32132815)



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Date: December 13th, 2016 7:38 PM
Author: Crimson charismatic business firm liquid oxygen

remind me again, please: what are these sites that peddle fake news?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#32132828)



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Date: January 26th, 2017 11:14 AM
Author: cheese-eating contagious milk area

Reminder

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Date: January 26th, 2017 11:18 AM
Author: carmine titillating lodge sneaky criminal

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#32464000)



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Date: August 1st, 2017 9:58 PM
Author: wild double fault



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Date: August 1st, 2017 10:07 PM
Author: Primrose mother stag film

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Date: August 1st, 2017 10:34 PM
Author: gold blathering indian lodge pozpig

Lol surprised the Krugman didn’t weigh in

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#33900249)



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Date: August 1st, 2017 11:08 PM
Author: wild double fault

Krugman has become semi-unhinged on a lot of levels, but he never went full retard like this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#33900523)



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Date: September 16th, 2017 11:38 AM
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Date: March 15th, 2018 4:04 PM
Author: iridescent diverse new version



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#35612951)



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Date: March 15th, 2018 4:07 PM
Author: flesh supple sound barrier



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#35612981)



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Date: March 15th, 2018 4:17 PM
Author: Pale Boltzmann

It's amazing how dumb libs are. If there were even a modicum of evidence in support of their delusions we'd already be living in caves again

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#35613076)



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Date: July 24th, 2018 3:30 PM
Author: Sexy scarlet locus



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#36488252)



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Date: March 31st, 2018 9:44 PM
Author: bat shit crazy meetinghouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#35733952)



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Date: April 26th, 2018 12:25 AM
Author: bat shit crazy meetinghouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#35922319)



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Date: July 3rd, 2018 10:59 AM
Author: wild double fault



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#36356463)



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Date: July 3rd, 2018 11:08 AM
Author: flesh supple sound barrier

I can't get enough of this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#36356524)



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Date: July 3rd, 2018 11:14 AM
Author: Abusive mewling hall

who's the bigger asshat: Sirota or Weisbrot?

Weisbrot:

Venezuelans Will Vote With Their Wallets

Mark Weisbrot

Mark Weisbrot is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He is also president of Just Foreign Policy.

UPDATED JUNE 20, 2016, 5:13 PM

Since Hugo Chávez first took office, he and his party have won 13 of 14 national elections, mainly because they greatly improved the living standards of the majority of voters in Venezuela. Since 2004, after the economy recovered from the devastating opposition oil strike, poverty has been cut by half and extreme poverty by more than 70 percent.

Hugo Chávez has cut poverty in half and given millions of Venezuelans access to health care and education. Voters will respond to this.

And this measures only cash income: millions of people also got access to health care for the first time, and access to education also increased sharply, with college enrollment doubling and free tuition for many. Eligibility for public pensions tripled; and in the past two years the government has built hundreds of thousands of houses. Most of the poverty reduction came from increased employment, not “government handouts,” and during most of Chávez’s tenure the private sector has grown faster than the public sector. These numbers are not really in dispute among economists or international statistical agencies. If you follow Venezuela and haven’t heard any of this, it’s because the news media is giving you the equivalent of a “tea party” view of the country.

Also, the 20 years prior to Chávez were an economic disaster, with per capita income actually falling between 1980 and 1998. So naturally most people have noticed the difference. Is this progress sustainable? The press focuses on Venezuela’s inflation, which, at just under 18 percent is about the highest in the region. However it has come down from 28.2 percent in 2010, even as the economy has recovered and growth has accelerated. This shows that the government can bring inflation down with the right policies. Chávez’s party won in 20 of 23 states during a regional election on Dec. 16, even with Chávez himself absent from the campaign trail. This indicates that his successor will likely win if he should step down.

This should not be surprising. All of the left-leaning governments in South America -- Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia and Uruguay -- have been re-elected, some repeatedly, for similar reasons: they have brought real economic and social change and significant improvements in living standards for the majority.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#36356552)



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Date: July 24th, 2018 3:02 PM
Author: bearded elite codepig

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/venezuelan-inflation-barreling-toward-1-million-percent-2018-07-24

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#36488110)



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Date: July 24th, 2018 3:04 PM
Author: mind-boggling buck-toothed heaven

They need to DOLLARIZE asap

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#36488124)



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Date: July 24th, 2018 3:08 PM
Author: haunting racy yarmulke

"When a country goes socialist and it craters, it is laughed off as a harmless and forgettable cautionary tale about the perils of command economics."

wait, what?

nobody laughs it off, nobody thinks it's harmless or forgettable.

this is an utterly insane sentence.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#36488143)



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Date: July 24th, 2018 3:28 PM
Author: ocher greedy jap



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#36488244)



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Date: July 24th, 2018 3:30 PM
Author: Sexy scarlet locus

libs should be drawn and quartered in the streets

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3321525&forum_id=2#36488248)