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Topic: Chavez crackpot Remarks..
Quikstepper Joined Mon 04/28/08 Posts: 2998	Sun 09/28/08 05:25 AM Edited by Quikstepper on Sun 09/28/08 05:26 AM
This coming from a lunatic control freak. Another reason why we Americans need to stick together. Has anyone fitted this guy for a straightjacket yet? Chavez says crisis-hit U.S. needs new constitution Reuters - Sunday, September 28LISBON, Sept 27 - Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday it was the capitalist system that had caused the financial crisis in the United States and the country should come up with a new constitution. ADVERTISEMENT Speaking to reporters in Lisbon on the last leg of a tour that included visits to China and Russia, he said: "I think the United States should start a constituent process to create a constituent assembly, a new truly democratic model." A constituent assembly is a body elected to draft and sometimes adopt a new constitution. "It was capitalism that caused the ruin" in the United States, said Chavez, who is one of Washington's fiercest critics, calling the financial crunch "the worst financial crisis in history". "Let the U.S. empire end and let a great nation and great republic rise from the ruin ... It's time to shout 'Liberty!' again in the United States," Chavez said, calling for a new government to be free of the "dictatorship of the elite" such as big banks and corporations. Critics accuse Chavez of running an authoritarian, Cuban-style regime in oil-rich Venezuela. Chavez, who has signed various deals from weapons to energy this week in China and Russia also signed an agreement with Portugal's Socialist government on Saturday to buy 1 million ultra-cheap laptops for schools and 50,000 pre-fabricated houses in deals worth $3 billion. They also signed a draft deal between Energias do Portugal <EDP.LS> and Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA for the development of a liquefied natural gas project from the Blanquilla Este reserve in northern Venezuela. The computers, which the government started distributing in Portuguese primary schools this week at a subsidised price of 50 euros , will be delivered to Venezuela from December. They cost 285 euros in stores in Portugal. http://sg.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080927/tbs-portugal-venezuela-usa-7318940.html

t22learner Joined Mon 07/02/07 Posts: 1774	Sun 09/28/08 06:21 AM
What do you think he has wrong? Is every world leader who doesn't bow to the US a "lunatic conrol freak?"

madisonman Joined Sun 12/23/07 Posts: 4573	Sun 09/28/08 06:47 AM
wow that was great of him to buy laptops for the schools. He was right this is the worst financial crunch in history.

warmachine Joined Tue 04/08/08 Posts: 4528	Sun 09/28/08 08:19 AM
This coming from a lunatic control freak. Another reason why we Americans need to stick together. Has anyone fitted this guy for a straightjacket yet? Chavez says crisis-hit U.S. needs new constitution Reuters - Sunday, September 28LISBON, Sept 27 - Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday it was the capitalist system that had caused the financial crisis in the United States and the country should come up with a new constitution. ADVERTISEMENT Speaking to reporters in Lisbon on the last leg of a tour that included visits to China and Russia, he said: "I think the United States should start a constituent process to create a constituent assembly, a new truly democratic model." A constituent assembly is a body elected to draft and sometimes adopt a new constitution. "It was capitalism that caused the ruin" in the United States, said Chavez, who is one of Washington's fiercest critics, calling the financial crunch "the worst financial crisis in history". "Let the U.S. empire end and let a great nation and great republic rise from the ruin ... It's time to shout 'Liberty!' again in the United States," Chavez said, calling for a new government to be free of the "dictatorship of the elite" such as big banks and corporations. Critics accuse Chavez of running an authoritarian, Cuban-style regime in oil-rich Venezuela. Chavez, who has signed various deals from weapons to energy this week in China and Russia also signed an agreement with Portugal's Socialist government on Saturday to buy 1 million ultra-cheap laptops for schools and 50,000 pre-fabricated houses in deals worth $3 billion. They also signed a draft deal between Energias do Portugal <EDP.LS> and Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA for the development of a liquefied natural gas project from the Blanquilla Este reserve in northern Venezuela. The computers, which the government started distributing in Portuguese primary schools this week at a subsidised price of 50 euros , will be delivered to Venezuela from December. They cost 285 euros in stores in Portugal. http://sg.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080927/tbs-portugal-venezuela-usa-7318940.html "It was capitalism that caused the ruin" in the United States." This is wrong, it was Corpratism that killed capitalism and is killing the country. "Let the U.S. empire end and let a great nation and great republic rise from the ruin ... It's time to shout 'Liberty!'" Tell me where this line is crackpot? If you can't then I think you need to apologize to Hugo! We are running an empire right now, 750 + bases on 5 continents, using our military power to bully those into doing what we want them to,doing everything we could to keep our currency as the world reserve. How is this not running an empire? He called for a great nation and a great republic to rise from the ruins of our broken system, he didn't call for us to adopt his nations policies, like we do to everyone else. He called for Liberty. Now what you have to ask yourself is how much of that was posturing to embarrass the JackA$$ in Chief. That being said, QS, you're right about Americans needing to stick together, but be honest. Don't you think that the divide and conquer tactics of the Globalist Republicrat duopoly has made that a near impossibility?

symbelmyne Joined Mon 01/14/08 Posts: 5356	Sun 09/28/08 08:26 AM
Chavez is a great man, if only we had more like him in Latin America, what a power we would be...the US knows that and it scares the sh!t out of you, look how freaked you are about tiny Cuba..Imagine a whole country right under you, full of Commies...and you know Central America and Mexico would follow..... Ah, I dream, for a brighter future for my country...

quiet_2008 Joined Sat 08/30/08 Posts: 11138	Sun 09/28/08 08:26 AM
follow the Shining Path

t22learner Joined Mon 07/02/07 Posts: 1774	Sun 09/28/08 08:38 AM
Imagine a whole country right under you, full of Commies... I think many of us no longer fear "Commies." That fear-baiting term has been replaced in our lexicon by "Terrorists." Someday we'll evolve further and get over that one too.

quiet_2008 Joined Sat 08/30/08 Posts: 11138	Sun 09/28/08 08:39 AM
funny how every "communist" country collapsed except Cuba of course but see how they prosper

madisonman Joined Sun 12/23/07 Posts: 4573	Sun 09/28/08 08:54 AM
I would vote for Hugo

quiet_2008 Joined Sat 08/30/08 Posts: 11138	Sun 09/28/08 08:56 AM
of course you would

madisonman Joined Sun 12/23/07 Posts: 4573	Sun 09/28/08 09:03 AM
of course you would he isn robbing the poor to give to the rich that is why they hate him so much

t22learner Joined Mon 07/02/07 Posts: 1774	Sun 09/28/08 09:08 AM
Last winter, the CITGO-Venezuela Heating Oil Program provided over 100 million gallons of heating oil to more than 224,000 households and 250 social service providers in 23 states.

madisonman Joined Sun 12/23/07 Posts: 4573	Sun 09/28/08 09:18 AM
Last winter, the CITGO-Venezuela Heating Oil Program provided over 100 million gallons of heating oil to more than 224,000 households and 250 social service providers in 23 states. contrast that with our president

TJN Joined Sun 12/02/07 Posts: 6745	Sun 09/28/08 09:25 AM
Last winter, the CITGO-Venezuela Heating Oil Program provided over 100 million gallons of heating oil to more than 224,000 households and 250 social service providers in 23 states. contrast that with our president maybe if could have been drilling for our own oil starting years ago we could be doing the same thing

Unknow Joined Fri 10/06/06 Posts: 4066	Sun 09/28/08 09:45 AM Edited by Unknow on Sun 09/28/08 09:45 AM
Last winter, the CITGO-Venezuela Heating Oil Program provided over 100 million gallons of heating oil to more than 224,000 households and 250 social service providers in 23 states. contrast that with our president maybe if could have been drilling for our own oil starting years ago we could be doing the same thing If my memory doesn't fail me I believe Bush Sr. put the moratorium in place..

quiet_2008 Joined Sat 08/30/08 Posts: 11138	Sun 09/28/08 09:45 AM
Last winter, the CITGO-Venezuela Heating Oil Program provided over 100 million gallons of heating oil to more than 224,000 households and 250 social service providers in 23 states. contrast that with our president maybe if could have been drilling for our own oil starting years ago we could be doing the same thing I my memory doesn't fail me I believe Bush Sr. put the moratorium in place.. yup

Unknow Joined Fri 10/06/06 Posts: 4066	Sun 09/28/08 09:50 AM
Last winter, the CITGO-Venezuela Heating Oil Program provided over 100 million gallons of heating oil to more than 224,000 households and 250 social service providers in 23 states. contrast that with our president maybe if could have been drilling for our own oil starting years ago we could be doing the same thing I my memory doesn't fail me I believe Bush Sr. put the moratorium in place.. And that's when we should have been drilling. You don't wait on a crisis and expect to drill out of it..Its outdated any way...We cant drill out of dependency on oil.. yup

quiet_2008 Joined Sat 08/30/08 Posts: 11138	Sun 09/28/08 09:53 AM Edited by quiet_2008 on Sun 09/28/08 09:53 AM
I'm of two minds on one hand, you can't expect OPEC to increase it's production for us when we are not willing to on the other, ANWAR isn't worth it. too expensive. it's soooo cold there that it requires special technology and a complete rebuilding of roads every winter coastal driling may or may not be worth it, we should have done it twenty years ago. now by the time we can get exploration. drilling, and distribution online it may have been too late

Unknow Joined Fri 10/06/06 Posts: 4066	Sun 09/28/08 09:54 AM
I'm of two minds on one hand, you can't expect OPEC to increase it's production for us when we are not willing to on the other, ANWAR isn't worth it. too expensive. it's soooo cold there that it requires special technology and a complete rebuilding of roads every winter coastal driling may or may not be worth it, we should have done it twenty years ago. now by the time we can get exploration. drilling, and distribution online it may have been too late You couldnt have said it better..

madisonman Joined Sun 12/23/07 Posts: 4573	Sun 09/28/08 09:58 AM
Last winter, the CITGO-Venezuela Heating Oil Program provided over 100 million gallons of heating oil to more than 224,000 households and 250 social service providers in 23 states. contrast that with our president maybe if could have been drilling for our own oil starting years ago we could be doing the same thing the oil companies have many off shore leases they do not use its is an election year ruse to defelect the high gas costs onto the democrats. Some people are foolish enough to fall for it