Bigcat wrote:

Go Chavez. At least they are doing something for the American PEOPLE.

What, like rubbing in our faces that we can't even take care of our own people yet we can spend money killing over in Iraq instead?

Perhaps he's trying to stress that living in a dictatorship with no free speech is a better way of living than capitalism. 

Nothing like a backhanded compliment I guess.

Roger_That wrote:

Bigcat wrote:

Go Chavez. At least they are doing something for the American PEOPLE.

What, like rubbing in our faces that we can't even take care of our own people yet we can spend money killing over in Iraq instead?

Perhaps he's trying to stress that living in a dictatorship with no free speech is a better way of living than capitalism. 

Nothing like a backhanded compliment I guess.

Check out the book Oil on the Brain to really understand how Chavez is using the USA as much as the US has used Venezuela.  Mr. Dic. is still the No. 1 oil importer to the US, and we wouldn't have it any other way.  By the way, he is destroying his country's ecology and the health of its citizens for the world's insatiable thirst for oil.

The book itself is a quick read which takes you from the pump at the local Kwik-E-Mart to the distributors, refineries, oil futures market, oil fields (Venezuela, Chad, Nigeria, Saudi, etc.) and finishes with a trip through China to see what will happen with the rest of the supply of the worlds oil.  Fun read, much in the same way "Stiff" is an interesting read on corpses.

Chavez is using the USA as much as the US has used Venezuela.  Mr. Dic. is still the No. 1 oil importer to the US, and we wouldn't have it any other way.

Canada is the US's Number 1 source of oil, not Venezuela.  Chavez probably is fucking the environemt of Venezuela.


Hugo is simply using the old tried and true liberal tactic of buying the support of the ignorant and ill-informed by fostering class warfare.  Just listen to the Democrat front runners talk about how they're going to steal from the rich and give to the poor.

Same tired old shit.  Righties always want to connect up socialists with liberals and/or Democrats.  One big monolithic enemy to you, huh?

IF I'm not mistaken, Charlie Rangel has proposed a major reduction in tax rates for corporations.  As for nationalizing energy production, I have no idea why you believe that. 

On health care, different Democrats have many different proposals.  Do you feel about Romney's Massachusetts program qualifies a "socialized"?  How about Huckabee's program?  "Socializing" medicine, if that means a national program that ensures that every citizen has health insurance, seems to have very broad acceptance.  But I think the term "socialize" is often misused, as in suggesting that all health care would be provided at government run facilities, or that people would not be free to purchase whatever health care the market makes available.

You are probably right that Democrats would impose higher taxes on the wealthiest taxpayers.  Still, that hardly sounds like Chavez to me.  Now, when people start to call Chavez "satan" or the "devil" -- that sounds a lot more like Hugo.

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