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In reply to the discussion: Venezuela to Ration Electricity After Colombia Cuts Gas [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Venezuela a bit more they could have gone over. They can't so they want to take their ball and go home. One would think they, like many corporations here - might have been satisfied with screwing people over on paychecks and avoiding paying taxes in any way they can in all the other places they do business, but perhaps not.
One should note - they never claimed on paper to not be making any profit - just not as much as they wanted, because the government wants to use to feed people and build bridges instead. Imagine such a thing.
Fuck Ford and any other teabagger, rethug or other lowlife who doesn't want to pay their fair share, who thinks corporate profits are more important than people's lives.
But it isn't that simple. The US is deathly afraid, to the point of peeing in our collective pants, that a socialist culture might survive. So we let crooks foreclose on 7 million FAMILIES over the past few years, leave 9 million homes underwater on their loans today, replace tens of millions of jobs with lesser paying ones and leave tens of millions with no hope, ever, of things getting better in their lifetime -
ALL - to insure corporate profits at the expense of the people who labored to create them. This country will do nearly anything or everything to make sure that anyone who doesn't hold that point of view will fail, whether in this country or out, up to and including helping others who will kill and destroy any government or people that try. Plenty of history of that, lots of it written down now.
This isn't just Ford not making as much as they want - I suspect it has more to do with people here who can't stand that Venezuela doesn't have their noses as far up corporate asses as those of our current politicians and "business people" - a much larger, messier, and smellier picture.
Tell you what. You want to argue for Ford, go waste someone else's time.