Chavez is on a roll
He certainly has an interesting view of those people who get up each morning and try to make something of themselves.
From
Mere Rhetoric:
Chavez In The Grips Of Hopenchange: "The Rich Are Not Human, They Are Animals In Human Form"
At least Obama didn't hand this clown a popularity boost and then excuse his public attack on American-led globalization as "a nice gesture." Think how awkward that would be right now!
The last time this particular phrase got dropped, it was being used by one of Sarajevo's most powerful imams to describe Jews. It's nice to see that Chavez is getting something from the Muslim world beyond Iranian military ties and Iranian-Syrian weapons boats. Because linguistic and discursive diffusion - that's the way civilization advances.
When Chavez says "rich," do you think there's any chance he means...? Probably not, right? Because Sean Penn insists that he's a "warm and friendly man," and warm and friendly men would never use the exact same rhetoric the Nazis used to demonize the exact same people the Nazis demonized. Or the people who the Nazis' modern day Islamist descendants demonize.
How blind are these people. Chavez is operating on the traditional Marixt idea that there is a fixed pool of money and that injustices result from improper distribution of said money. This is economic bullshit of the worst order.
Money can be created and destroyed out of thin air -- the last few months have shown the destruction mode. Someone like J.K. Rowling can come along and out of her own head, create something like Harry Potter that will created billions of dollars, an entire motion picture franchise as well as book and toy spinoffs for well into the next ten years.
Chavez should have been looking after the real needs of his people and of his nation. He should have been spending the oil revenues on building up Venesuela into a world class nation with universities, medical shcools, banking, etc but no, he squanders Venesuela's wealth on feel-good social programs that (as the proverb said) give the man a fish and not teach him to fish.
Posted by DaveH at May 12, 2009 11:46 AM