Rhonda from Sacramento, California, and Independent.
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Good afternoon.
Good morning.
Thank you for taking my call.
It is so nice to see you.
We don't get to see you often.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
My comment today is about Venezuela.
I'm looking at this in a positive, you know, a positive light here.
Their economy is a disaster.
They only get electricity, I think, four hours a day.
They don't have health care.
Many of their citizens are starving.
They're hungry.
From what I understand, they only have one meal a day per family.
So I'm looking at this in a positive light here.
If we go in there, we get those oil rigs to run, they're going to need workers to get those oils, the oil production going.
Also, hospitals, health care, so on and so forth.
If we go in there to get them back up on their feet economically, I think it will be positive for everyone all the way around.
If Stell and Chevron step in and help United States and other countries too to lift this South American country up on its feet, then I believe things will work out okay.
I'm not one to sit up here and call Trump names and this or that or what he is or what isn't.
I want to look at this positively so that we as a country can move forward.
Rhonda, can I ask, would you be comfortable if U.S. taxpayer dollars were to reimburse oil companies who invested in the infrastructure, the oil infrastructure in Venezuela?
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And honestly, look at all the monies that we spent towards Ukraine.
If we could do that, and they're losing the war, forgive me for my honesty in that.
But I would want my tax dollars to go to something positive to lift them up, get them on their feet, because we'll get the payback in the long run.
I know.
You know, Trump, he's not going to do anything without getting something for it.
But I think it'd be a good thing.
Yeah, sure.
And just say, hey, you know, you're going to have to pay us back some of this, some of this money because we've helped you get back on your feet.
To be clear, no troops died in the military actions over the last week in Venezuela.
But take a listen here to Senator Tim Cain, a Democrat, who on the House, I mean, on the Senate floor yesterday, urged his fellow lawmakers to block any further action in Venezuela.
The vote we'll have Thursday on our bipartisan resolution to say no to war in Venezuela without congressional authorization is actually a vote about many things.