Posted on 12/05/2010 7:42:46 PM PST by Nachum
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said he knows what's been causing the floods that have killed 32 people in his country and left 70,000 homeless: "criminal capitalism." "The developed nations irresponsibly shatter the environmental order, in their desire to maintain a criminal development model while the immense majority of the earth's people suffer the most terrible consequences," he said on Venezuelan television Sunday.
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He might have a point, every socialist country seems to blame their bad economies and farm output on a “drought”
lol.
Criminal capitalism? hmmmmmm, I’m sure Hugo can fix all that with carbon credits ... he’s running out of legitimate businesses to nationalize.
I notice that the NY Daily News doesn’t trouble itself to suggest that maybe Chavez is wrong. Perhaps they agree with him.
And then there’s this: “While he couldn’t fit all 70,000 flood victims into his plush mansion, he did allow 25 to stay in the presidential palace, according to Reuters.”
Gee, wasn’t that generous. How long did he let them stay? One night? Tough luck on the other 69,975 he offered his hospitality to. But again, the reporter doesn’t seem to find anything a bit strange or demented about this.
I guess he thinks Chavez is a nice guy. And that it’s time for the Global Warming Conference in Cancun to get its act together and send him some money.
Update....
CARACAS, Venezuela – President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that he would force privately owned hotels to help shelter tens of thousands of Venezuelans who have left their homes due to floods and mudslides caused by weeks of torrential rains.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101206/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_floods
I’m surprised. I thought for sure he would have said it was Bush’s fault.
Chavez is a lunatic.
Chavez might have a point, except he is getting rich by selling the oil that is supposed to be causing the problem.
BTW, what energy supply did socialism create that is better than the ones invented by capitalism?
You are too kind. I have a much lower opinion of that POS.
Bush/Rove/Cheney must have taken that weather machine with them when they abandoned the WH.
Totalitarian clowns on parade.
Bush fault and gringo dollars.
He really is a nutcase. Next he will blame capitalism for hangnails, pimples and nosebleeds.
Hooboy! This guy is out there.
He’s Obama’s friend. Or at least Obama thinks so.
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