> RoMunn wrote: > Chavez is slowly driving Venezuela into financial ruin, all the while > pretending to be the champion of the little man. He is going to leave behind > a destitute population, eroded civil institutions, and a shattered economy- > basically what Castro has done to Cuba. And who will suffer the most? Poor > Venezuelans. > > The question is, Dana, does this situation bother you? >
As the Fonz would say, exactamundo. It's kind of surprising that when it comes to Schiavo Dana is all for the government trampling family rights, but when it's an entire country, well, we should ignore it. Robert - you said it perfectly: he's driving the country to financial ruin by bribing the little guy. It's a classic case of giving a man fish rather than teaching him to fish. And Chavez continues to dig a deeper hole. He continues to run up his debt to the people which causes them to demand more. The worst part is you'll indoctrinate a whole country of people into thinking that their quality of life should be provided by the government rather than their hard work. Hell, if someone offered me free oil money because I had a breath I'd quit working now. You're to end up with a whole country of people that quit working because Uncle Chavez will take care of them. And this all ignores the fact that he's also the last straw propping up Cuba, a country with a leader that personally helped shoot 1000 school teachers in a soccer field because they disagreed with him. And there's the Iran connection. Frankly I'm surprised anybody with a conscience could look at Chavez and not want to somehow help a people being horribly led down a path of ruin. It's like watching 2 trains about to collide and deciding not to tell them because, hey, we should leave people alone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:213520 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
