{"id":142,"date":"2008-02-12T08:20:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T13:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=142"},"modified":"2008-02-12T08:47:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T13:47:41","slug":"live-by-the-asset-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Live by the Asset Seizure…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…die by the asset seizure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Exxon Mobil Corp has moved to freeze up to $12 billion in Venezuelan assets around the world as the U.S. company fights for payment in return for the state’s takeover of a huge oil project last year.<\/p>\n

The company said it has received court orders in Britain, the Netherlands and the Netherlands Antilles each freezing up to $12 billion in assets of Venezuela state oil firm PDVSA. An Exxon spokeswoman said the total that could be frozen worldwide was $12 billion.<\/p>\n

Exxon also won a court order from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in December freezing more than $300 million belonging to PDVSA, as Exxon argued it would have little chance to recoup its investment from PDVSA should it win its arbitration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A taste of his own medicine that Chavez may find does not agree with his pallet. But somehow, socialists always seem to think that grabbing up whole industry sectors is the way to utopia. He’s been threatening to do it with the food sector<\/a> as well because of food shortages caused by price controls.<\/p>\n

And that is the lesson here, taught many times over the centuries but lost on socialists; price controls don’t work. And since that’s one of hallmarks of a socialist government, determined to control an economy down to every little detail, then socialism is doomed to fail as well.<\/p>\n

A committee cannot hope to manipulate an economy to the degree that Chavez wants to. The sooner the people of Venezuela understand that, the sooner they can remove him from power before he starts expropriating that, too.<\/p>\n

[tags]Venezuela,Hugo Chavez,socialism,economics,Exxon,PDVSA[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…die by the asset seizure. Exxon Mobil Corp has moved to freeze up to $12 billion in Venezuelan assets around the world as the U.S. company fights for payment in return for the state’s takeover of a huge oil project last year. The company said it has received court orders in Britain, the Netherlands and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,18,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-government","category-venezuela"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t