Daggers Posted 22 February 2009 Author Posted 22 February 2009 I was talking more about teachers and oil workers rather than govt officials but even in this country the govt make a token effort at having a broad spectrum of views on quangos. I like that! Schools didn't exist before Chavez, just private fee-paying ones for the rich. These remain privately owned bodies although some have been forcibly subsumed into the new state system. Most oil companies were foreign owned entities which Chavez decreed back into Venezuelan control - managers throughout the new network disrupted the flow of oil to the country and abroad in attempts to destabilise the government. Oil tankers moored off shore, lorries were used to block roads, and roads were destroyed just to prevent things moving. We lived there during this abject anarchy instigated by the greed of the few in response to their failed CIA-sponsored abduction of Chavez. When they started getting sacked I laughed, there were parties in the streets to celebrate the end of the "national strike" which was anything but national or a strike but which paralised the country and left the poor suffering even more. It's not about a balance of views, eighty percent of the country don't give a flying toss about the views of these bastards who bled them dry over decades of abuse. This is much more about vengeance, settling old scores and redefining a nation. Another example: In the middle of Caracas lies the private members' Country Club - a bastion of old school obscenely rich oligarchs, ones who haven't decamped to Miami. It sprawls across the centre of the city and, along with La Lagunita golf club occupies the most valuable real estate in the city Guess where Chavez has identified an opportunity for development in order to provide essential modern housing for the poor? A wonderful '**** you'!
Webbo Posted 22 February 2009 Posted 22 February 2009 Sorry. I just don't get the politics of envy. Imo govt policy shouldn't be based on spite.
Daggers Posted 22 February 2009 Author Posted 22 February 2009 Sorry. I just don't get the politics of envy. Imo govt policy shouldn't be based on spite. Envy? People raped the country - that didn't breed envy, it's pure-bred hatred.
BoneDog Posted 22 February 2009 Posted 22 February 2009 A greater percentage of people are benefitting from Chavez's rule than if the US backed folks took power. The ones who took power for a day or two after the coup a few years back. What proof that coup was of how the media can make falsehood seem true. The way they prepared the demonstrations and had snipers in position ready to kill innocent people and camera crews in position ready to make out the poor Chavez supporters were to blame was frightening. How great it was to see the army take action for the people and storm the government building.
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