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On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:19:50 -0800, topbassdog wrote:


Some expert. Chavez has been in power since 1998. Want to guess what
oil prices were then? You may not like him. I don't particularly, but
he has won 3 elections. Somebody must like him.

It's easy to win an election when your opponents are totally powerless.

Or dead.

Huh? His opponents are the Venezuelan fat cats, and landed gentry,
hardly powerless. However, they lost at the polls. Chavez has won three
elections with an average of 60% of the vote. As I said, I don't
particularly care for the man. Although, I do enjoy how he is able to
tweak the nose of our current President.

Yep, he changed the constitution waving the 2 term rule. He was jailed in
1992 or so for coup d'etat attempt. People are statistically as poor as the
day he started. Makes me wonder where all the cash from oil is really
going? While I hear a gallon of gasoline is cheap, no one in the mainline
society can afford something to burn it with.

The usual, promise lots of socialism, then appologist later with strong arm
tactics and a facade of democracy. Ever listen to him? Comes off like a
raving maniac. While perhaps not as bad as Castro, from the same cloth.

Oh, he does invest in the economy, just enough to keep them educated this
side of being apes and just this side of being starving.