# Venezuela: Chavez' party loses ground in parliamentary elections

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venezuela-chavez-party-loses-ground-in-parliamentary-elections/555755>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 1, 2010, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venezuela-chavez-party-loses-ground-in-parliamentary-elections/555755 "2010-10-01T18:06:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venezuela-chavez-party-loses-ground-in-parliamentary-elections/555755/21 "2010-10-15T20:45:03Z")

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> [@smiling\_bandit](#):
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> Handouts are not sound policy. It tears up the actual economy while filling bellies for a day’s meal. And then they’ll have nothing for the next one. In fact, you’ve just proven my point: Chavez bribed people.

Would you characterize the Homestead Act that way?

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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venezuela-chavez-party-loses-ground-in-parliamentary-elections/555755/22 "2010-10-15T20:52:52Z")

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> [@smiling\_bandit](#):
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> One huge problem is that Venezuela can’t actually maintain the entire industrial base, and the foreigners who can were kicked out.

Yeh, them savages should let some white men handle their mineral wealth. Bunch of half-breed injuns wouldn’t know what to do with it, amirite? /sarcasm :rolleyes:

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