Chavez calls on Obama to follow path of socialism

[Combat Ready]

CHAVEZ CALLS ON OBAMA TO FOLLOW PATH OF SOCIALISM
Fri Mar 06 2009 17:13:48 ET

Caracas - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday called upon US President Barack Obama to follow the path to socialism, which he termed as the "only" way out of the global recession. "Come with us, align yourself, come with us on the road to socialism. This is the only path. Imagine a socialist revolution in the United States," Chavez told a group of workers in the southern Venezuelan state of Bolivar.

The controversial Venezuelan leader, who taunted the United States as a source of capitalistic evil under former president George W Bush, added that the United States needs a leader who can take it to a "higher" destiny and bring it out of "the sad role that it has been given, as a murderous, attacking power that is hated all around the world."

Chavez said that people are calling Obama a "socialist" for the measures of state intervention he is taking to counter the crisis, so it would not be too far-fetched to suggest that he might join the project of "21st century socialism" that the Venezuelan leader is heading.

"Nothing is impossible. Who would have thought in the 1980s that the Soviet Union would disappear? No one," he said.

"That murderous, genocidal empire has to end, and some day there has to come a leader ... who interprets the best of a people who also include human beings who suffer, endure, weep and laugh," the outspoken Chavez said.

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DRUDGE REPORT: CHAVEZ CALLS ON OBAMA TO FOLLOW PATH OF SOCIALISM 2009® (http://drudgereport.com/flashco.htm)

[sadaist]

"That murderous, genocidal empire has to end, and some day there has to come a leader ... who interprets the best of a people who also include human beings who suffer, endure, weep and laugh," the outspoken Chavez said.



I'm kinda tired of the government "interpreting" whats best for me. Maybe because they usually get it wrong.

[Nickdfresh]

Who gives a fuck what Chavez says? He's a semi-dictator that is as corrupt as they come despite his "power to the people" rhetoric...

[WACF]

Who gives a fuck what Chavez says? He's a semi-dictator that is as corrupt as they come despite his "power to the people" rhetoric...




"The problem with socialism is that, sooner or later, you run out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher

[Kristy]

Someone in Chavez's Venezuelan government obviously forgot to inform him that his 15 minutes of fame was back in 2006 when he referred to Bush as being "the devil." I find that odd since his own socialist tactics involve bringing in the military for every problem that opposes him. Initiating a crackdown on Venezuelan food industry (most of which is imported) and thus giving it a 31% inflation because he can't sell his polluted oil for what he'd like to was a brilliant move. Also was leaving many of his population underemployed and unpaid teetering on the brink of bankruptcy if not social unrest is definitely a fresh change to all of the "capitalist evil" in America.

21st Century Socialism, eh? Sounds like another euphemism for dictator to me. Time for you to shut the fuck up, Hugo. Put on your Spongebob slippers go back to bed and dream of a world where you're oppressing your people with a brand new shiny gold-plated 9mm Beretta in your hand and I'll dream of them killing you in your sleep.

[LoungeMachine]

If anyone is following Chazev's lead, I'd say it was Governor SaraCuda.

:gulp:

[Combat Ready]

If anyone is following Chazev's lead, I'd say it was Governor SaraCuda.

:gulp:

Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Wealth Distribution, Alaska Style



At a time when most other state governments are cutting back, Alaska is now distributing $1,200-per-resident oil-bounty bonus checks.

So, let’s get this straight. Alaska, which has a population of about 670,000 people -- less than one third of one percent of the U.S. population -- is running a five billion -- that’s billion, with a “b” -- dollar budget surplus. (I note, as an aside, that Gov. Palin is clearly stiffing Alaska’s residents. Given its tiny population, the state could give every man, woman and child in Alaska $5,000 apiece and still have money left over.)

And where does Alaska’s largesse come from? Well, it doesn’t come from state sales or personal income taxes: it has none. In fact, the vast majority of that money comes from royalty payments the state receives from oil companies that are licensed to drill on state-owned lands, and from hefty taxes imposed by the state on the revenue those oil companies generate.

Must be nice to live in Alaska: You don’t pay income tax, and the state pays you to live there.

Of course, I’m not criticizing the state of Alaska or its Teenage Beauty Queen governor. It’s shrewd, to say the least, to profit from the state’s natural resources. But let’s call it what it is: It’s a form of socialism.

Of course, it’s not full-bore socialism. The state doesn’t operate the oil and gas industry itself; the state doesn’t pump the oil, refine it, transport it or sell it. The state merely owns the land where the oil reserves are found, and it licenses the right to exploit those reserves to private companies -- for an exorbitant fee. Nonetheless, state control and ownership of natural resources is, in fact, socialistic. If Alaska and its governor were true free market enthusiasts, Alaska would sell its oil-rich lands to private developers and allow them to take the oil found there and sell it for whatever profit they could garner.

That, my friends, is full-on Adam Smith.

Instead, the state of Alaska prefers to maintain ownership and control over what might be the world’s most valuable commodity, reaping enormous benefits for maintaining that control. And that means that Alaska and its governor are all about redistributing wealth, taking it from private industry -- the oil companies -- and giving it to the residents of the state of Alaska, via nice, fat $1,200 checks.

Of course, all of that is fine. It’s a good way to raise money for the state (not that Alaska is afraid of taking money from the federal government, either). But it’s bitterly ironic that the right flings the “socialist” epithet at everything and anyone left of Genghis Khan ... yet, when they find socialism they like, why, they’re all over it like flies on Moose dung.

Robin Hood, indeed.

Journal of the Plague Year: Wealth Distribution, Alaska Style (http://journalplagueyear.blogspot.com/2008/09/wealth-distribution-alaska-style.html)

[WACF]

I would think you would have a hard time to find someone...left or right...that think Royalty payments are wrong.

Non-renewable resources are a one time deal.

Is it socialism....maybe a touch.

But....any government in power...should reach left and right to govern for the people.

We keep drawing lines in the sand...fuck that.

Chavez is a good example of Socialism going wrong...Bush was an example the far right gone wrong.

The best place to be is in the middle of that...

[Angel]

I would think you would have a hard time to find someone...left or right...that think Royalty payments are wrong...

Time for us to get some, right WACF!?:biggrin:

[WACF]

Time for us to get some, right WACF!?:biggrin:

Would be nice.....

Hard to believe SK. has the most secure economy in North America right now....bizarre to say the least.