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Venezuelan Middle Class Flees Chavez Rule Of Hate
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 3-5-2006 | Sophie Arie

Posted on 03/04/2006 5:39:49 PM PST by blam

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To: blam

We know the next few verses of this song. We learned them in 1917. The middle class had better get out, or their song will be a funeral hymn.


41 posted on 03/04/2006 6:41:48 PM PST by Capriole (The Anti-Feminist)
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To: kittymyrib; jimfree

The oil workers won't need to sabotage. FDI will dry up and the place will slowly fall into ruin. In ten years it will turn in a Zimbabwe.


42 posted on 03/04/2006 6:42:28 PM PST by GeorgefromGeorgia
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To: blam

and
Hugo Chavez
as
El Castor

43 posted on 03/04/2006 6:50:55 PM PST by uglybiker (Don't blame me. I didn't make you stupid.)
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To: blam

If Danny Glover, Harry Belefonte, Barbara Streisand, Michael Moore and Hugo Chavez all lived in modest $80,000 houses and gave the rest of their money away to others I would then respect them.
I wouldn't agree with them but I would respect them.
Since they don't I call them ludicrous holier than thou hypocrites.


44 posted on 03/04/2006 6:56:00 PM PST by cjmae
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To: inkling

"You know your country is circling the drain when people are fleeing to Colombia for prosperity and stability."

There are some sentences that you have to repeat to yourself a few time to make sure you heard it right.

I'm moving to Colombia for prosperity and stability. I'm moving to Colombia for prosperity and stability.

No, still does not sound right.


45 posted on 03/04/2006 7:06:10 PM PST by ndt
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To: blam
Image hosted by Photobucket.com Atlas Puked... Tax the Rich, feed the poor tax them till there are no more!!!
46 posted on 03/04/2006 7:07:52 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: kcar
"Jimmy Carter certified it"

In all honesty, it probably was on the up and up. Venezuela has a huge underclass and by and large, they love him. Whats not to like when you get stuff and someone else had to pay? Sometimes people really do make dumb choices.
47 posted on 03/04/2006 7:12:39 PM PST by ndt
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To: Redleg Duke
She told me how there was no future for members of the middle class in her country.

Doesn't sound like there's much of a future for anybody at all, be they poor, middle-class, or rich.

48 posted on 03/04/2006 7:17:21 PM PST by John Jorsett (scam never sleeps)
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To: Brilliant
"Sounds like the Democratic Party."

I had the same thoughts as I read this. Democrats left unchecked would rapidly turn us into the same kind of hell hole.

49 posted on 03/04/2006 7:17:43 PM PST by TheLion
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To: ndt

In all honesty, I don't know but I doubt it. ANyway, Carter certifying does zero to ensure me that it's so.


50 posted on 03/04/2006 7:52:06 PM PST by kcar ( Common DUKE!)
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To: Victoria Delsoul

Presidente "No Neck" Ping

Piece by piece, Ol' Hugo flushes his country further into the crapper.


51 posted on 03/04/2006 8:01:50 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: blam
Put it together with this current thread. Connect the dots. Chavez just purchased a half million new Kalashnikovs to arm his new Milicia. This peasant Milicia is not meant to defend against a US invasion, it's to wipe out "the rich," conduct "land reform" and "wealth restribution" and so on.

Venezuela aims for biggest military reserve in Americas

On News/Activism ^ 03/04/2006 6:22:06 PM PST · 17 replies · 238+ views

www.guardian.co.uk ^ | Saturday March 4, 2006

Greg Morsbach in Caracas

Venezuela aims for biggest military reserve in Americas Greg Morsbach in Caracas Saturday March 4, 2006 The Guardian Around 500,000 Venezuelans will start a four-month military training programme today to turn them into members of the country's territorial guard. They are the first group of a total of 2m Venezuelan civilians who have so far signed up to become armed reservists. By the summer of 2007, Venezuela is likely to have the largest military reserve in the Americas, which is expected to be almost double the size of that in the United States. The huge recruitment drive is part of...

52 posted on 03/04/2006 8:28:02 PM PST by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: ConservativeMind

This is a very critical and fearful time for Venezolanos. THey are hyper-aware of all of the Cuban "security advisors" infesting all levels of their govt. Rumors must be rampant that the exit doors will be slammed shut at some point, ala Cuba 59. "Get out while you can" must be the catch phrase. And of course, once the doors are closed, the "enemies of the state" will be marched to the wall and shot. It's coming.


53 posted on 03/04/2006 8:33:51 PM PST by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Is it almost 1959 in Caracas?
Who gets to be El Che?


54 posted on 03/04/2006 8:35:28 PM PST by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Very subtly said. Compliments!

And exactly right, too -- assuming only our feckless government can somehow manage to carpe the diem.

55 posted on 03/04/2006 8:38:20 PM PST by SAJ
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To: Travis McGee
Whoops...wrong thread. It belongs here:

He will not be taken out easily. Any attempt to do so will only strengthen him. It plays right into his hands. The Catholic church with its corruption has brought all of this to us. What has Catholicism done to urge the government to educate the people? What has Catholicism done to teach the peoples' hearts that violence for change is not the answer? What is the Catholic church doing right now to help solve the problem? LOL. Nothing. They're waiting to see which side wins so they can hitch their wagon up.

This just in via e-mail from a close friend who is VERY knowledgeable about Venezuela. Certain information blotted out to protect sources and myself:

"Yes, everything there (on Free Republic) is pretty accurate from everything that I either know or have been told. I don't see any exaggerations. I have close friends who have family members there who have escaped. On the street where XXXXXXXXXX lived there have been a lot of Cubans who have been given new houses, new 4WD SUVs and passports of Venezuelan citizenship. You need to read Globovision regularly. It is really on target. I have a friend who keeps me up to date with anything unusual. Chavez banned US flights from Delta, Continental and American airlines. That was supposed to have started on March 1, but Fedecamaras the equivalent of the National chamber of commerce someway got an extension on the decision until March 31. Chavez is buying guns from Russia and military airplanes from Spain. He has imported hundreds of Cuban teachers to brainwash the education system. I have heard first-hand accounts of some of his "education" training sessions. It is scary."

56 posted on 03/04/2006 8:44:31 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
You need to read Globovision regularly. It is really on target.

Do you know this website?

57 posted on 03/04/2006 9:02:45 PM PST by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: blam

"Ever since Hugo Chávez was elected [in 1998] he has been fomenting hatred for those who have, among those who have not. 'Rich is bad.' That's his message. So the people who follow him have decided it's not just the world's superpower they hate, it's people like me too."

Anyone else think this sounds like the Democrats??? Hm???


58 posted on 03/04/2006 9:05:03 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God is giving you countless observable clues of His existence!)
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To: ndt; SAJ; Lurker

ping


59 posted on 03/04/2006 9:06:00 PM PST by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: kingu

"Of course, Chavez will declare himself president for life first."

Kind of like Bill Clinton, wouldn't you say?


60 posted on 03/04/2006 9:06:05 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God is giving you countless observable clues of His existence!)
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