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naaman fletcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 12:13 PM
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Venezuela's Chavez In Talks to Buy French Retail Chain
The announcement came hours after Chavez slammed Polar in a television broadcast for maintaining warehouses in the middle of the Venezuelan city of Barquisimeto, urging that housing be built there instead.

"What is Polar doing with warehouses in the middle of the city?" Chavez said. He said he instructed the governor and mayor, with whom he is politically allied, to order Polar to move the warehouses to the outskirts of the city.

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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/02/13/business/business-uk-venezuela-nationalization.html?_r=1
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 12:15 PM
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1. and what's wrong with this?
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naaman fletcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 12:49 PM
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9. Nothing is wrong with it.
I am sure the wise leader knows better than the food distribution companies where their warehouses ought to be located.
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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 12:20 PM
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2. Well alright. I like whacky
I know he's losing it a bit, but it sure as hell is refreshing to see someone stand up to the false god of corporatism.
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Rage for Order Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 12:21 PM
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3. LOL!!!
They should bring in some of those huge freight-moving helicopters, hook lines to each corner of the warehouse buildings, lift them off their foundations, and fly them to an area more to Hugo's liking.

:rofl:
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 12:23 PM
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4. Why is Chavez inolved with local zoning issues?
Edited on Mon Feb-15-10 12:24 PM by Renew Deal
This is an example of government too involved in peoples lives.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 12:25 PM
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5. No, it's an example of a government that supports affordable housing
just as ours used to do before Raygun hollowed out the Housing and Urban Development agency and made homelessness part of the American way of life.
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naaman fletcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 12:52 PM
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10. I agree
What kind of a moron put a food distribution center near where people live in the first place?
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 12:28 PM
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6. This is a great move. Food distribution used to be solely in the hands
of the right wing upper class -- which gave them the means to punish the majority at whim.

Go, Chavez!
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 12:30 PM
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7. HUGO - PLEASE STOP OPPRESSING DU !!1111!!!!!
:eyes:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 01:09 PM
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11. LOL
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 05:17 PM
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12. lol
:rofl:
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ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 12:43 PM
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8. Why doesn't he just expropriate it like he does with other things?
Has he even considered that the warehouses may have been there for some time. Its doubtful the company built them.
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