Chavez names ‘Comrade Bush’ a socialist
- added October 08, 2008
- 47 responses
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- skyaddicted
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Critics say the U.S. bailout plan is an example of a double standard by the Bush administration, reports America’s McClatchy newspaper.
"If the Venezuelan government, for example, approves a law to protect consumers, they say, 'Take notice, Chavez is a tyrant!'" said Chavez, speaking in one of his recent weekly television shows.
"Or they say, 'Chavez is regulating prices. He is violating the laws of the marketplace.' How many times have they criticised me for nationalising the phone company? They say, 'The state shouldn't get involved in that.' But now they don't criticize Bush for having to nationalise (the biggest banks in the world.) Comrade Bush, how are you?"
Warming to his theme, he added: "Comrade Bush is heading toward socialism."
Nicaragua Congressman Edwin Castro agreed: "We think the Bush administration should follow the same policies that they and the International Monetary Fund have always told us to follow when we have economic problems — a structural adjustment that requires cutting government spending and reducing the role of government.”
Meanwhile, Bush said the bailout plan, that will see $700 billion of government money used to buy toxic mortgages, was necessary, although he said it stood against his personal philosophy.
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- skyaddicted
- 1 month ago
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This one cracked me up. This is where our country has fallen. A communist dictator calling our sitting president comrade and dammit, we can't say shit.
I think I'm losing my mind. I can't stop laughing, the world has gone TILT !
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The picture says it all.
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What's so wrong with being socialist? Besides Bush is not even close to being a socialist.
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The article should mention that what Nicaragua Congressman Edwin Castro said about cutting government spending was irony.
Raven6, Chavez is certainly not a dictator; he was elected by the people democratically, and although he is hated by many because he is a radical, he is still supported by the majority..
Socialist concepts come to save our economy when the free market fails… and it isn't the first time (1929). Economic liberals always want the profits to be private, minimize taxes and redistribution, and then they come and cry for tax-payers’ support when the system fails. what a hypocrisy... Chavez is off because that true socialism would also share the gains with the people, not just the losses.-
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- loganwallace
- 1 month ago
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Oh for crying out loud...if anything it was the very opposite of socialism.
The ideals of socialism focus on giving "handouts" (or, in reality, aid) to the middle and lower classes in need.
Socialism does NOT focus on giving handouts to the middle class. That is government-backed corporate capitalism, not socialism or communism.
Thank you.
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- PoisonTheMonkey
- 1 month ago
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government-backed corporate capitalism
agreed.
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Our government takes from the people.. and gives to the largest corporations. Then it gives the largest corporations the breaks in taxes.
What do we call that actually?
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My apologies, I don't know much about Venezuela and lost my mind for a bit there.
Not that it's returned because as to what we should call it then, I lean towards, "Taking it in the Shorts." or the "Give, Then Bendover and Give Again" ... ??? ... or the "What the Hell Happened to Us."
We was robbed.
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no.... it's not SOCIALISM...
It's FASCISM.
Come on guys, get your insults straight.
It just takes a little trip to Wiki to come up with the following:
Facsism is a totalitarian nationalist and corporatist ideology. It is primarily concerned with notions of cultural and social decline or decadence, and which seeks to achieve a millenarian national rebirth by exalting the nation, as well as promoting cults of unity, strength and purity.
Various scholars attribute different characteristics to fascism, but the following elements are usually seen as its integral parts: nationalism (including national socialism, socialism, national syndicalism, along with collectivism and populism based on the nationalist values); totalitarianism (including dictatorship, major social interventionism, and statism); third way (including class collaboration, the economic ideology of corporatism, economic planning,) and militarism. Fascism opposes communism, conservatism, liberalism, and international socialism.
Or maybe Hugo of the Large Ego is just projecting a little bit of himself?
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If you ask me socialism doesn't sound half bad. I believe that as long as there are good men running the government then the government should be more envolved with all market places. I repeat "Good Men".
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Chavez ftw
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- PatrioticAstronaut
- 1 month ago
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American hypocrisy is always fun to point out.
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For the right wing, hypocrisy and double standards are just means to an end, tools of the trade.
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The guys has a point.
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- Valentin0o
- 1 month ago
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Doesn't the root word that anchors socialism suggest social understanding??! No, no, no, NO! Bush shouldn't even be allowed the nicety of being deemed a socialist.
More like out of touch SOCIALITE!!!
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Terms like 'socialism,' 'Communism,' and 'Capitalism' are used so loosely nowadays, they've lost their original meanings.
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- flyingkick
- 1 month ago
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"An elephant drowning in a pool"
Chavez about the US economy.-
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- WhiteNoise
- 1 month ago
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chavez is the next wanna be hitler
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So the Chavez "exorcism" at the UN worked?
Dubya became a convert and nobody knew but Wall Street royalty?
I guess he's gotta nationalize the oil companies and banking system next.
Who knew? George Bush - closet communist.
It's getting too weird out there.I just gotta go finish that bunker.
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- AveryMoore
- 1 month ago
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There's still social security to plunder ;)
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- WhiteNoise
- 1 month ago
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Ha! Comrade bush! I'm going to have to use that. Hugo, you may also be a tyrant and a bastard, but you have some great lines.
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- Dmitri_Molotov
- 1 month ago
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Don't listen to the US propaganda.... Chavez is one of the last leaders that the US hasn't had luck in taking out yet.
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- PirateSauce
- 1 month ago
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Who cares what he says.
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- Johnny_Danger
- 1 month ago
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Chavez champions the little people over the ruling class...
Don't you wish our so-called leaders would do the same ?USA's history in South & Central America is but a bloody trail of crimes against humanity...
Ignorance does not excuse any of this...
U.S. Interventions in Latin America
http://www.zompist.com/latam.htmlCIA and FBI Plan to Assassinate Hugo Chavez
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArti...The nerve of these South Americans, they now refuse to be used, abused & killed for imperialistic hot wind !!!!
Venezuela : Democracy, Socialism and Imperialism
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&a...Calling socialism or communisn the biggest economic heist in history is pure sarcasm just as he did with his UN Bush is the devil stinking sulfur routine.
He knows the Bush crime cartel well...
And so should we ;)First they stole 2 elections… the first by perverting the supreme court…nothing happened…Then 9-11 & a war based on a 1000 lies… nothing happened… they proceeded to shred the constitution, kidnapped imprisoned & tortured the world over, spied on all of us & fired the best US attorneys… nothing happened…conducted a thinly veiled ethic cleansing during Katrina…nada…now they are taking us to the cleaners…
Is there a limit to the damage this executive branch can inflict to the USA ?
It seems not !
Fear & Greed Corp reigns under the guise of Mindfuck Inc.
Get a third job ! Sell a vital organ ! Move in a card box by the river, but stop your whining buba ! You are but a victim of your own imagination, you suffer from a severe case of "mental recession"... Now get over it !
* WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH *
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- WhiteNoise
- 1 month ago
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please please..chavez is the biggest joke in south america right now..now that the russians are over there and him kissin ..u know what . now hes talking and talking.
