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[–]matthew--0 points
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You're not entirely wrong, only partly.
The problem is that when you have a party that is dependant on handouts to buy votes, you need to do something to make sure you can sustain it. Otherwise the country will collapse because who wants to buy money from a country that's 20T in debt? By invading first Iraq, then Libya, then finally Syria. The US was able to maintain it's hold on the petro dollar: you better use USD to buy oil because of you don't you'll end up just like Iraq.
Immigrants go to the US because they know they can sit around doing nothing and get paid more than for a full time job back home. And all they need to do is keep voting for the party that gives them more free shit. The US parties like this because paying people for votes is a lot easier than actually putting in effect good policy (that may be unpopular), and when people are on the receiving end of handouts, they're more likely to overlook dirty deals in government that make politicians very rich (selling half of America's uranium supply to Russia).
As for stealing natural resources being the reason for poverty in SA and Africa, well you're wrong, as shown in OPs link: most people are poor because they are dumb or stupid. Africa is the way it is because they and their leadership are stupid. Banana republics, socialism, tribalism, racism, superstition, unsustainable birthrates does not a rich country make.
These are the types of responses I hope to receive. Are you familiar with Allen Dulles and the bannana war?
Also, the reason Venezuela fell apart is because the international bankers want to control their oil. The Venezuelians refused, so now they are suffering from rampant inflation. The same happened to Germany after WW1.
Are you familiar with Allen Dulles and the bannana war?
No I'm not, though it leads to interesting reading regarding the Spanish-American war, thanks for that. I'm only familiar with the "banana" republic trade model, in which a county is overly reliant on one commodity to fund their nation. Which ends badly when said commodity crashes or some other event happens that lowers prices below what that nation is used to. As was the case with Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) when it decided to go full retard on copper.
The reason Venezuela fell apart is because the international bankers want to control their oil. The Venezuelans refused, so now they are suffering from rampant inflation.
Can you please elaborate on this? How would "international bankers" be able to do this? They could refuse to lend money to Venezuela, but that is well within their rights, and if Venezuela is dependant on loans to function, well that's their problem right?
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[–] matthew-- 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
You're not entirely wrong, only partly.
The problem is that when you have a party that is dependant on handouts to buy votes, you need to do something to make sure you can sustain it. Otherwise the country will collapse because who wants to buy money from a country that's 20T in debt? By invading first Iraq, then Libya, then finally Syria. The US was able to maintain it's hold on the petro dollar: you better use USD to buy oil because of you don't you'll end up just like Iraq.
Immigrants go to the US because they know they can sit around doing nothing and get paid more than for a full time job back home. And all they need to do is keep voting for the party that gives them more free shit. The US parties like this because paying people for votes is a lot easier than actually putting in effect good policy (that may be unpopular), and when people are on the receiving end of handouts, they're more likely to overlook dirty deals in government that make politicians very rich (selling half of America's uranium supply to Russia).
As for stealing natural resources being the reason for poverty in SA and Africa, well you're wrong, as shown in OPs link: most people are poor because they are dumb or stupid. Africa is the way it is because they and their leadership are stupid. Banana republics, socialism, tribalism, racism, superstition, unsustainable birthrates does not a rich country make.
[–] pby1000 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
These are the types of responses I hope to receive. Are you familiar with Allen Dulles and the bannana war?
Also, the reason Venezuela fell apart is because the international bankers want to control their oil. The Venezuelians refused, so now they are suffering from rampant inflation. The same happened to Germany after WW1.
[–] lopan 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
Venezuela fell apart because they put tards in charge of the oil, greedy fuck-tards
[–] matthew-- 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
No I'm not, though it leads to interesting reading regarding the Spanish-American war, thanks for that. I'm only familiar with the "banana" republic trade model, in which a county is overly reliant on one commodity to fund their nation. Which ends badly when said commodity crashes or some other event happens that lowers prices below what that nation is used to. As was the case with Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) when it decided to go full retard on copper.
Can you please elaborate on this? How would "international bankers" be able to do this? They could refuse to lend money to Venezuela, but that is well within their rights, and if Venezuela is dependant on loans to function, well that's their problem right?