Is this another laughable reference to Chavez's attempts to kill off the Syrian people by sending them diesel for their trucks and farm equipment? Government tanks will have all the fuel they need in any case, or are you still too naive to have recognized that fact.
You would rather see hundreds of thousands of low-income American families freeze in the winter than to have to sacrifice your crude poltical biases to the point of offering a single word of thanks to Hugo Chavez. What a fine, upstanding, and admirable sort you seem to be.
Repeat after me...
Then the number of Americans killed in World War II was not significant either.
Fail. The program has been in existence for seven years. Your link is to ONE of many local distributors having participated in the program over the years. Didn't know? Didn't care? Doesn't matter. You're pushing a fraud.
That might be because only the rantings of deranged sociophobes stand to the contrary.
LOL!
You are on the ground in Syria then, I take it, and not at all just making this stuff up in your living room?
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The "Castro regime" has run Cuba for fifty years. Canada has done more to prop it up than Chavez. FARC is a group of dedicated Colombian Marxists that's been around for decades. They use bases in Ecuador and Venezuela for training and as hiding places. They are not actually the friends of anyone. Chavez has been a leading voice espousing the causes of the Non-Aligned Movement. Iran is also a member and has rights that even American bloviators need to respect. Nobody is a bigger client of the PRC than the United States.
That's not a strawman at all. You have made it quite a bit more than crystal clear that you would willingly trade the health and well-being of hundreds of thousands of low-income Americans in order to preserve against continuing onslaughts of fact your own disinformed personal political biases and hatreds. Shame on you.
Indeed. FARC in fact arose in opposition to US-backed and US-funded military attacks against suspected leftist peasants in Colombia. And people wonder why we are so hated in so many places.
The significance of people dying compared to people getting foreign money to pay for heating fuel is no where near related.
It doesnt matter how long that foreign money has been influencing Americans. What matters is that the Hugo Chavez is not giving fuel oil out of the kindness of his heart, it is a political tool and the form of bribes to try to fix his bad image and to be able to use it as propaganda against the US.
The question is over how big a group of people has to be before it becomes significant You've opined that 400,000 low-income American households isn't nearly enough. Now it seems you want to eat those words.
It matters because you claimed that these were once-in-a-lifetime deliveries of just 100 gallons. You unfortunately based those claims on information for one year from a single participating local distributor. You stand corrected yet again.
Ok the nationally owned oil company has been using their wealth to influence Americans and a lot of them at that. Meanwhile Venezuelan citizens are not being helped because Venezuela is not really so rich that they can pay for both.
In its Seventh Year, CITGO-Venezuela Heating Oil Program Helps 400,000 Needy Americans « Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the U.S. CITGO, based in Houston, is a refiner, transporter and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and other industrial products. The company is owned by PDV America, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., the national oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. For more information visit Home page
Actually, such wealth has been used to provide free home heating oil to hundreds of thousands of low-income American households, as was originally claimed. CITGO is also the largest single contributor to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. How do you explain that?
Election returns over the years would suggest that clear majorities of the Venezuelan people hold an opinion quite different from yours. Then again, they live there, and you just read stupid right-wing corporate propaganda, so that might account for much of the difference.
LOL! Why would that be hypocritical? Do you seriously see Venezuela as some sort of hard-left bulwark of communism or something? Perhaps you should recognize that there are thousands of corporations in Venezuela, ranging from privately-owned to government-owned and including many co-ops in between. What does the US picture look like?
BTW it is called actually Citgo Petroleum Corporation. And most Corporation's have charities. Its called Corporate social responsibility.
LMAO I do not buy into Right wing propaganda haha. Nice try but good luck proving your claim here.
Well yes I know that and that was my point. But no I never have thought that Venezuela is a Communist nation, in fact that strawman is ridiculous. Do I think that Chavez wants to turn Venezuela into a Cuba like nation? Yes. Of course that wont happen though since Chavez has his own flavor that differs from his hero Castro. But the deciding factor is that the people do not want to join in on the Cuban insanity. How do I know? Well the internet is awesome! I actually talk to people in Venezuela. And I am not comparing the US with Venezuela that would be another ridiculous strawman argument.
Ah, so the home heating oil program has actually been an example of social repsonsibility. See, I understood you to be saying that it was all just some sort of self-serving trick by Chavez to fool people into thinking he was a man of the people or some such.
I defer to you in the provision of such proof. You've been doing just fine at it on your own.
Actually, your point was that it was somehow "hypocritical" for Chavez to work through corporations. You even capitalized it. What was the basis for that?
No, you don't.
LOL! One has to wonder how entertainment sites would suddenly become legitimate sources. Do you realize that your site pegs the net worth of Saddam Hussein at $2 billion???
Corporate social responsibility = Propaganda to hide the fact that you are doing something bad.
Just because I am against a Leftist I must be a Right winger? I am also anti-Christian Right does that make me a Left winger too?
My basis is the ten hour long speeches that Hugo Chavez has made describing Corporations as the most vile things on Earth.
What do you have surveillance equipment on my PC? Or do you believe that only Venezuelan state media are the only ones telling the truth? Think about that the media is either controlled by CHavista's or the opposition? If you believe either group you are buying into their propaganda. Social media and blogs though are in this case much more reliable. But go on believe Hugo propaganda machine if you want.
Ok then prove me wrong show me what Hugo Chavez is worth?
So unlike Chavez, you believe that "Corporations" are the most vile thing on earth?
No, the pedigree of the idiot arguments you have trotted out here suggests it. I thought I had made that point clear already.
What sort of misguided question is that? Are you suggesting some notion that only left-wingers oppose the Christian right?
LOL! Yeah, you two are peas in a pod when it comes to "Corporations". Meanwhile, Chave spoke at great length only to demonstrate that he is recovered from cancer and has the vigor and determination needed both to campaign and to govern for another term.
No, I'm just not nearly so naively gullible as you may have hoped.
Why don't you get down to brass tacks and provide some names and links. I won't wait up though.
It's your Bozo the Clown claim. You made it based on the reporting of an entirely phony website. And you STILL want people to take you seriously? I don't think that's happening.
Lol why dos my opinion matter when I was talking about Chavez's opinion on corporations?
Well that would be your opinion.
Yea well the Religious Right took over the Repbulican party so I am sure some Republicans should be pissed. Not that you hear from them much.
Well Im not hypocritical about corporations so I do not know what you are going on about. And isnt it amazing that Chavez somehow recovered from cancer at just the right time? But I guess you will believe anything that the Chavista's tell you?
Well if you are going to imply that I lied about having friends in Venezuela I would expect you to have more than you just think so.
You do know how to use google right? Or are you going to assert that no Venezuelans have internet?
Actually it was two links. Which were sites for entertainment. I found it entertaining did you not? But none the less you ignored this link: Accusations of corruption hit Chavez clan - Houston Chronicle "They are not the same poor family as before," Cartay said. "It's hard to hide wealth in a small state like Barinas."
first you tell us that the government is sucking up all the diesel in the country, and then you tell us that Chavez' diesel is going to support innocent farmers and the like. It's not my fault you are stuck defending idiotic propaganda. good ole wikipedia.