PokerGuy
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 Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:23 am Post subject: Venezuelan government takes over farms |
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the government says:
"The goal is to transform farms from profit-making enterprises benefiting a few people to co-operatives that support a much broader group of Venezuelans."
Why take the profit making farms rather than the ones that are not doing so well? If a farm is making money by the very nature of business it is going to be helping a fairly large number of people in entire community (directly and indirectly). From the employees it hires to businesses that it buys supplies from (for those that have never worked a farm there are always a lot of things that need to be purchased to keep everything going strong). And that does not even start to consider the simple day to day spending of all the people that get paid directly or indirectly with money obtained from the profits of the farm.
Why do I see in the future government promoted failure and foreclosure . . . then shopping malls, apartment buildings, etc. with even more of the money going to a select few.
There is an old question that asks:
"What are the nine scariest words in the English language?"
the answer:
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Copied from:
http://story.venezuelastar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/262fd6adf564928c/id/44299095/
Venezuelan government takes over farms
Venezuela Star
Saturday 2nd April, 2011
(Source: english.aljazeera.net)
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is following through on a controversial plan to seize farmland from wealthy ranchers in the country's agricultural heartland.
Many landowners say the plan will leave prime farmland idle and decrease productivity.
But the government says the land will be used more efficiently, and workers' conditions improved.
The goal is to transform farms from profit-making enterprises benefiting a few people to co-operatives that support a much broader group of Venezuelans.
Al Jazeera's Craig Mauro reports from Santa Barbara. ...
Read the full story at english.aljazeera.net
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/americas/2011/04/20114264030881786.html |
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