Chavez helps Massachusetts poor

[Gouda]

<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Thousands in Mass. to get cheaper oil - Delahunt, Chávez help broker deal</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>By Michael Levenson and Susan Milligan, Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff | November 20, 2005<br><br>A subsidiary of the Venezuelan national oil company will ship 12 million gallons of discounted home-heating oil to local charities and 45,000 low-income families in Massachusetts next month under a deal arranged by US Representative William D. Delahunt, a local nonprofit energy corporation, and Venezuela's president, White House critic Hugo Chávez.<br><br>The approximately $9 million deal will bring nine million gallons of oil to families and three million gallons to institutions that serve the poor, such as homeless shelters, said officials from Citizens Energy Corp., which is signing the contract. Families would pay about $276 for a 200-gallon shipment, a savings of about $184 and enough to last about three weeks...<br><br>Read on...<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/11/20/thousands_in_mass_to_get_cheaper_oil/?page=full">www.boston.com/news/local...?page=full</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>***<br><br>mean-while: GM to close 12 plants and lay off <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>30,000</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> right in time for the holidays....<br><br>(!!!!!)<br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=gouda@rigorousintuition>Gouda</A> at: 11/22/05 12:00 am<br></i>

[Dreams End]

Chavez MUST BE STOPPED!!! <p></p><i></i>

[Gouda]

Yes, i disagree with Chavez' neosocialist interventions around the world. We are in grave danger of becoming mere vassals of Mercosur. Under the guise of "humanitarian intervention", he subverts our democracy and insults our heroes of free enterprise. "Helping the poor" is simply cloaking his vile interference with a veil of respectability. This is counterproductive because it forces us to rely on his largesse, to become helpless babes sucking on his teats. Instead of picking ourselves up by the bootstraps and taking care of this problem ourselves, we are forced to choose between two parents, and we will choose the one who feeds us better. In fact, I think I'll increase my tithe to the 700 Club today. <p></p><i></i>

[banned]

In a one on one, he'd make chum out of that fucktard fratboy we let steal the Presidency. <p></p><i></i>

[firstimer]

I believe that he already has my friend. Failed coup attempts, oil price manipulation, threats to support FARC(may already be) redistributing land from rich corp's to the poor in his country. This is how Guatemala got whacked in the 50's. His influence in South America is growing.<br><br>The interesting thing is that he is organizing the Carribean to trade as a block. These things are good for the caribbean people. You would do it if you lived there, so no stone throwing yet. <br><br>Even if the ideals are based on what most people call socialism, this is the process of rejecting unsustainable imperial capitalism and it is healthy. Yes unsustainable, lassez -fare (sp?) capitalism degrades into brute imperialism every time. The markets seek unsustainable labor value for constantly declining currency value. War is the outcome. Frustration of trade builds up until there is false justification for wealth extraction by force and reindoctrination.<br><br>This time instead of applying Marx to the problem, Chavez is applying the scientific method and incorporating what helps the highest number of people. The thing that I think is going on there is best described by Karl Popper (CIA Asset?) and his book "the Open Society and Its Enemies" is a profound evolution of the stale communism/socialism/liberalism vs capitalism/fascism/totalitarianism arguments. Everybody but the politicians have moved on beyond that ridiculous dialectic. Economic democracy is a much more complex beast. That people recognise it when they see it is where there is hope. We need more illumination, let Chavez have his day in the sun. Castro might have a thing or two to say to us before he is gone. Has anybody read a Castro speech here? My guess is yes, If so did anybody enjoy the speech? please share<br><br>firstimer <p></p><i></i>