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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chavez; hugochavez; socialist; venezuela
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To: Boston Blackie

A man after Hillary’s heart. Maybe it’s a socialist mating ritual.


41 posted on 06/12/2007 7:28:01 AM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: dfwgator
oops - should be

"We are going to take things from you for the common good"

Ring a bell?

42 posted on 06/12/2007 7:28:01 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (I Relieve Myself In Islam's General Direction While I Deny Global Warming.)
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

“We are going to take things from you for the common good”

Hilda Clintonista?


43 posted on 06/12/2007 7:28:14 AM PDT by Ancient Drive
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To: Boston Blackie

i was just thinking Hill is probably moist right about now ;)


44 posted on 06/12/2007 7:28:42 AM PDT by conserv8ive1 (Rudy and the Bots...blasting off to oblivion.)
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To: Boston Blackie

Doesn’t he, though. “We’re just taking your refrigerator, TV and microwave oven for the larger common good.”


45 posted on 06/12/2007 7:29:02 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: tlb

Chubby is beginning to act more and more like Jim Jones everyday.

Pretty soon he’ll start demanding people worship little plastic icons of himself.


46 posted on 06/12/2007 7:29:14 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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To: Migraine

sounds like you teach a great course - what subject are you teaching?


47 posted on 06/12/2007 7:29:38 AM PDT by ghost of nixon
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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.


48 posted on 06/12/2007 7:29:40 AM PDT by ichabod1 ("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)
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To: dfwgator

That is why all the university students are demonstrating. Only not the Cambodia model, the Cuban model of sending them to the countryside.


49 posted on 06/12/2007 7:30:33 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: ichabod1

Venezuela needs their “Pinochet.”


50 posted on 06/12/2007 7:30:41 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: conserv8ive1

It’s only 10:30 EDT and you are in the lead for the eeeeeeeeeeewwww! of the day post


51 posted on 06/12/2007 7:31:00 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Parker v. DC: the best court decision of the year.)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

Nuts, AND drunk on power.


52 posted on 06/12/2007 7:31:16 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: TommyDale

“Anyone else reminded of “Dr. Zhivago” when Zhivago returns home after the Revolution to find several families living in his house?”

I was thinking about that movie recently, not only in reference to Chavez, but to Her Heinous. Remember the old hag who was manning the door? Her Heinous in the flesh!


53 posted on 06/12/2007 7:31:39 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: dfwgator

Countdown to The Year Zero.


54 posted on 06/12/2007 7:31:50 AM PDT by Buckhead
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To: subterfuge

This is what happens when you let ignorant, undeducated masses vote.

Good reason why the Founders of this country wanted only literate land owners to vote.

Mob rule is what you get from universal suffrage.


55 posted on 06/12/2007 7:32:02 AM PDT by Al Gator (Refusing to "stoop to your enemy's level", gets you cut off at the knees.)
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To: tlb

Spare underwear... loose change...


56 posted on 06/12/2007 7:32:07 AM PDT by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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To: dfwgator
Imagine no possessions....

...it's easy if you try...
... no more wealth among us...
...nothing more to buy...
...imagine all the people...
...giving things away, (hoo-hoo...)...
...you may say that he's a schemer...
...but he's not the only one...
...there are commies in all nations...
...who won't quit till we're all done...

57 posted on 06/12/2007 7:32:27 AM PDT by Migraine (...diversity is great... until it happens to YOU...)
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To: Old Grumpy

Hillary reminds me more of Strelnikov.


58 posted on 06/12/2007 7:32:41 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: KarlInOhio

it takes a village...to take things away from you for common good.


59 posted on 06/12/2007 7:32:53 AM PDT by conserv8ive1 (Rudy and the Bots...blasting off to oblivion.)
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To: Migraine

Excellent!


60 posted on 06/12/2007 7:33:16 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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