Venezuela was my home, and socialism destroyed it

angelatc said:
But up until 2 weeks ago we were the number one purchaser of their oil. 41% of what they produced was sold to us, while all imports of everything from anywhere was halted. You seem to think like I do on a lot of topics - how do you balance that subsidizing the oppressive government (who again, won't allow anything anybody else sells to be imported) with the "we need to stay out of it?"

I know how Ron Paul feels. Trade with anybody. I'm not that person. I boycott
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The normal thinking on this is oil is world market. If the US didn't allow oil from Venezuela into the US then someone else would just buy their oil and it would have no effect on their profits. That's why we still buy oil from the worst Middle East countries. One argument against Venezuela might be they own Citgo and getting rid of that would hurt their profits.


at 1:10
https://stosselintheclassroom.org/videos/energy_independence_fact_vs_fiction/
 
this kid is/was smart enough to escape but what about the millions that are suffering?
 
angelatc said:
But up until 2 weeks ago we were the number one purchaser of their oil. 41% of what they produced was sold to us, while all imports of everything from anywhere was halted. You seem to think like I do on a lot of topics - how do you balance that subsidizing the oppressive government (who again, won't allow anything anybody else sells to be imported) with the "we need to stay out of it?"

I know how Ron Paul feels. Trade with anybody. I'm not that person. I boycott companies I don't like, even though I'm usually the only participant in said boycott, because I don't want to fund their nonsense. The same people who demand we trade with socialists even though they're not trading with us are the same people who get pissy when we trade arms.

Screw the liberals - starve them to death. If we have to stop buying their oil, then so be it.
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I don't think anyone has a problem with YOU as an individual, company boycotting anyone. For instance, I support BDS of Israel which is private sector boycott by individual and corporation. This type of boycott leaves govt out of it and this way anyone else who doesn't believe in my agenda can give me the mddle finger and continue to buy items from Israel. This is not what we have with Venezuela, the US govt doesn't buy Venezuelan oil, it is individuals in the market deciding they want to engage in commerce with Venezuela.

But thanks to Trump, these individuals are prevented from buying that crude. Btw, one of the smart things Venezuela did with the oil riches was to buy refineries in the US. They bought these refineries so they can refine their oil with it. I won't be surprised if the majority of the oil purchases were done by those companies and its affiliates.

Starve them to death? dont you mean "let em starve"? One is passive and the other is active, makes me think that deep down inside where your heart is supposed to be, you know exactly what we have been doing to that country.
 
Krugminator2 said:
The normal thinking on this is oil is world market. If the US didn't allow oil from Venezuela into the US then someone else would just buy their oil and it would have no effect on their profits. That's why we still buy oil from the worst Middle East countries. One argument against Venezuela might be they own Citgo and getting rid of that would hurt their profits.


at 1:10
https://stosselintheclassroom.org/videos/energy_independence_fact_vs_fiction/
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To be fair, with Iran which is by a wide margin not the worst Middle east(near east?) nation, we have sanction that limit their oil sale. We don't buy their oil and in fact we have been pressuring India not to buy their oil. Thank God they ignored the last 2 idiots in the WH
 
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