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Thursday, July 27, 2006
Atlast Shrugged Comes to Life in Venezuela
Posted by: Mary Katharine Ham at 12:47 PM

Way to go, Jim Taggart:

From monitoring El Universal, A.M. Mora y Leon @ Publius Pundit surmises “that the U.S. needs to prepare for an oil cutoff from Venezuela” due to the “socialization” of that country’s oil industry, courtesy of Hugo Chavez: “[T]he country [is] running its oil industry into the ground with fires and accidents, something that’s never occurred until these Chavista years, a result of the firing and blacklisting of all of Venezuela’s talented and dedicated engineers and managers - who have since been replaced by Chavista operatives known for their political loyalty and not their expertise…”

And, the dream crumbles again.



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JLawson writes: Thursday, July, 27, 2006 10:34 PM
Shouldn't that be 'Atlas Shrugged'?
I often wondered, reading Rand's book, just how the people of a country would be stupid enough to allow someone to wreck it. But now it seems pretty simple - you get someone in who promises 'Power to the People' in the good old Communist way, let them purge the folks who actually RUN the country (those running dog booge-wa bastards who ought to be first against the wall when the Revolution comes) and put folks in who support the Revolution but haven't got a CLUE how to run a refinery - and then you get it.

Damn. First 9/11, like something out of a Tom Clancy Novel. Now, Ayn Rand plays out in Venezuela. All we need is a good Robin Cook plague taking out half the population, and we'll have hit the trifecta.
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