And so could we be, if we nationalized our oil and had a strong social welfare system like Saudi Arabia.
I could be on board with nationalizing our oil.
Nationalize our oil to fund social programs?
Okay, Hugo. That's exactly what got Venezuela where they are.
You can look at the history. In 2012 Venezuela was producing tons of oil, but it all fell apart when Maduro got in and now they can't even get spare parts, so Iran is loaning them money to fix their refineries.
Venezuela founded OPEC, and now look at all the Arab countries, they're beautiful and wealthy while Venezuela has to resort to smuggling and drug running. Venezuela got greedy, is what it is. Other OPEC countries were able to renegotiate concessions, they don't have to do a goddamn thing but watch the money flow in. Venezuela is incapable of raising a new platform, a new refinery, anything. If they started right now this instant it would still take them years to get back on their feet.
That's what libtard policies do. They destroy entire nations, hurt people badly. The pie in the sky lie of free social programs invariably results in a lazy and dumbed down society. If they wanted to help people they would have trained a few engineers, gnome sain?