Reply #60: There's a tape of a coup plotter recently saying he thinks that 10 yrs

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of dictatorshipt should be enough to push back all Chavez's democratizing reforms and impulses.

Now THAT'S what I'd call "forced government"!!!

By the way, the wealthy had about 1000% more of the wealth than they could have ever expected in their wildest dreams. So If things are now 80% more expensive for them, they're still over 500% wealthier than they dreamed they could be.

And they hardly spend very much of their total wealth anyway, so more expensive consumer goods isn't going to hurt them.

They have MILLIONS of dollars. So what if that Mercedes is going to cost almost twice as much. They're still rich.