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Chavez orders supporters to give up extra possessions
CNN ^
| June 11, 2007
| Reuters
Posted on 06/12/2007 7:16:33 AM PDT by tlb
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told his supporters to give away possessions they do not need such as an extra refrigerator because he only wants true socialists to be members of a new single party he is forming.
"Whoever has a fridge they do not need, put it out in the village square. Whoever has a truck, a fan or a cooker they do not need, give something away. Let's not be selfish. I demand you do it," Chavez said at a milk producing cooperative, in remarks released on Monday.
The anti-U.S. president who calls Cuban leader Fidel Castro his mentor denies he is turning the OPEC nation of avid consumers into another communist state as his critics say.
"I only want to be accompanied by true socialists," he said.
Chavez's critics complain his constant railing against U.S.-promoted consumerism contrasts with the behavior of senior government officials who can can be seen dining out at fancy restaurants or riding around in expensive cars.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chavez; hugochavez; socialist; venezuela
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To: tlb
I presume that Hugo Chavez’ Presidential Palace has only a single fridge as well.
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posted on
06/12/2007 7:22:02 AM PDT
by
wideawake
("Pearl Harbor is all America's fault, right, Mommy?" - Ron Paul, age 6, 12/7/1941)
To: TexasCajun
...and throw in those TVs as well, No more MTV!
Besides, I just shut down the last TV station anyway!
BBBWWWWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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posted on
06/12/2007 7:22:08 AM PDT
by
Al Gator
(Refusing to "stoop to your enemy's level", gets you cut off at the knees.)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
I predict the next step will be Chavez emptying out the cities to the countryside ala the Khmer Rouge.
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posted on
06/12/2007 7:22:12 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: TommyDale
Im sure everyone in Venezuela is receiving this quite well, and are gladly giving up their extra bedrooms to others. Anyone else reminded of Dr. Zhivago when Zhivago returns home after the Revolution to find several families living in his house? Thanks for mentioning my favorite movie of all time. I still use it in my classroom, and the scene you mention is what I use to show how instantaneous the "sharing of the misery", as noted by Churchill, can be! Thanks again.
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posted on
06/12/2007 7:22:16 AM PDT
by
Migraine
(...diversity is great... until it happens to YOU...)
To: Boston Blackie
He sounds like Hillary. Ding!!! We have a winner!
To: tlb
p.s. this is what hillary clinton has said to us in a speech...
“we are going to take things from you for the common good”
this is what we have to look forward to should she get elected.
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posted on
06/12/2007 7:22:45 AM PDT
by
television is just wrong
(Amnesty is when you allow them to return to their country of origin without prosecution.)
To: camle
what is HE goping to put up??? His brain.
He's not using it.
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posted on
06/12/2007 7:22:52 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
To: tlb
Is this guy nuts or drunk?
To: tlb
Wow. Ain't socialism grand? :-)
I'm sure his supporters are quickly approaching their "D'oh!" moment.
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posted on
06/12/2007 7:23:22 AM PDT
by
TChris
(The Republican Party is merely the Democrat Party's "away" jersey - Vox Day)
To: tlb
"Whoever has a fridge they do not need, put it out in the village square... WHAT?!
To: tlb
then they came for the children...
To: camle
that is just it. he keeps his stuff and their stuff and they live in ruin. he collects everything and lives in luxury. that is what socialism is all about.
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posted on
06/12/2007 7:24:09 AM PDT
by
television is just wrong
(Amnesty is when you allow them to return to their country of origin without prosecution.)
To: tlb
Only a fool could not see where this is headed.
Within 5 years the world will be questioning why America is not intervening on behalf of the people who put him in power.
Dictators always take control by claiming to be for the oppressed, only to turn around and become the oppressor on a far more destructive scale.
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posted on
06/12/2007 7:24:18 AM PDT
by
subterfuge
(Today, Tolerance =greatest virtue;Hypocrisy=worst character defect; Discrimination =worst atrocity)
To: tlb
A socialist is someone who has nothing, and wants to share it with everybody.
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posted on
06/12/2007 7:24:28 AM PDT
by
coloradan
(Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
To: tlb
"We are going to take things from you for the common food"
Ring a bell?
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posted on
06/12/2007 7:24:56 AM PDT
by
WorkerbeeCitizen
(I Relieve Myself In Islam's General Direction While I Deny Global Warming.)
To: Rodney King
“Then they came for the deep-fryers..”
They’ll get my deep-fryer, when they peel it away from my cold dead fingers
To: tlb
before you know it, Fidel will be demanding Cubans turn in their ‘58 Studebakers.
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posted on
06/12/2007 7:25:38 AM PDT
by
EDINVA
To: WorkerbeeCitizen
"We are going to take things from you for the common food" Ring a bell? Taco Bell?
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posted on
06/12/2007 7:25:44 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: tlb
So, let me see if I understand communism. If you have two houses, you will give me one?
Yes.
And if you have two cars, you will give me one of them?
That's correct.
And if you have two suits, you will give me the extra one?
No.
Why not?
I have two suits
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I first heard this in the early 1950s and it is at least 30 years older than that. This is an example of what happens when history is not taught.
To: dfwgator
I don’t know if it’s next, but if the Venezuelans don’t cooperate, if they keep seriously protesting, there’s going to be blood in the streets. It’s time for people in V to start seriously considering sacrificing their lives to stop this madman. Easy to say, I know.
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posted on
06/12/2007 7:27:53 AM PDT
by
ichabod1
("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)
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