Bringing the Free Market to Iraq...NOT

Griff · 04-30-2005, 08:02 AM

QAYYARAH, Iraq -- U.S. forces are cracking down on an unexpected problem in this oil-rich country -- gasoline bootlegging.

Long lines at an inadequate number of gas stations -- a result of decades of underinvestment by dictator Saddam Hussein's government -- have given rise to thousands of illicit gas stands.
In Nineveh and Diyala provinces, U.S. troops are shutting down bootleggers and giving their gas away for free in an effort to control the price of gasoline, protect the livelihoods of gas-station owners and employees, and in the long term, reduce the wait and encourage investment in gas distribution.

The last thing the Bush administration wants to see is small business solving problems that Socialism and CronyCapitalism need to justify their existence.

richlevy · 04-30-2005, 02:53 PM

I can see the ads now:

Small Business opportunity. Prime Locations available! Unlimited growth potential. Benefits include the right to possess weapons up to and including shoulder-fired rockets for protection.

Experience in counter-insurgency, riot-suppression, and bunker construction a plus.

What we need are people with experience in oil and gas and who own a huge cache of weapons.

I suggest we run the ad in Texas.

xoxoxoBruce · 04-30-2005, 09:10 PM

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and in the long term, reduce the wait and encourage investment in gas distribution.

Encourage whom? They're shutting down the people that have. WTF?

Griff · 05-01-2005, 11:56 AM

precisely

04-30-2005, 08:02 AM	#1
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Bringing the Free Market to Iraq...NOT QAYYARAH, Iraq -- U.S. forces are cracking down on an unexpected problem in this oil-rich country -- gasoline bootlegging. Long lines at an inadequate number of gas stations -- a result of decades of underinvestment by dictator Saddam Hussein's government -- have given rise to thousands of illicit gas stands. In Nineveh and Diyala provinces, U.S. troops are shutting down bootleggers and giving their gas away for free in an effort to control the price of gasoline, protect the livelihoods of gas-station owners and employees, and in the long term, reduce the wait and encourage investment in gas distribution. The last thing the Bush administration wants to see is small business solving problems that Socialism and CronyCapitalism need to justify their existence. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

04-30-2005, 02:53 PM	#2
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	I can see the ads now: Small Business opportunity. Prime Locations available! Unlimited growth potential. Benefits include the right to possess weapons up to and including shoulder-fired rockets for protection. Experience in counter-insurgency, riot-suppression, and bunker construction a plus. What we need are people with experience in oil and gas and who own a huge cache of weapons. I suggest we run the ad in Texas. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

05-01-2005, 11:56 AM	#4
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	precisely __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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