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To: Amark$p who wrote (547)	9/17/2005 6:37:32 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217738

<<Chavez does have majority support from the Venezuela poor>> ... which is the absolute majority. <<does know how to dole out that walking around money to them effectively ... When that walking around money runs out or decreases substantially, you can expect the next military coup...>> ... he is raising the oil tithing from 1% to north of 15%, and so that walking around money will not run out anytime soon. Chugs, J

To: Amark$p who wrote (547)	9/18/2005 2:54:19 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217738

"delivered some social gains—but at a heavy cost to democracy and economic development"" Social gains at a heavy cost to democracy is very good! Democracy is to serve the society and not the other way around. social gains at a heavy cost to economic development is bad. Very bad. Because only economic development, and I mean sustainable ecoomic development, can deliver social gains. Again, we still have to put under the microscope how much of economic development had cost to deliver social gains. I still like those expeirments going on in places like Venezuela. They are very healthy! Those stable matriarchal societies like New Zealand, Canada or Canada, that keeps distrubting democracy and social gains pretty ssoon disocvers that the economic development that paid for that is situated in China.