AP: Chavez Wasted His Money on Healthcare When He Could Have Built Gigantic Skyscrapers

[L0oniX]

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http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/06/ap-chavez-wasted-his-money-on-healthcare-when-he-could-have-built-gigantic-skyscrapers/

One of the more bizarre takes on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's death comes from Associated Press business reporter Pamela Sampson (3/5/13):

Chavez invested Venezuela's oil wealth into social programs including state-run food markets, cash benefits for poor families, free health clinics and education programs. But those gains were meager compared with the spectacular construction projects that oil riches spurred in glittering Middle Eastern cities, including the world's tallest building in Dubai and plans for branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums in Abu Dhabi.

That's right: Chavez squandered his nation's oil money on healthcare, education and nutrition when he could have been building the world's tallest building or his own branch of the Louvre. What kind of monster has priorities like that?

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Better to build gigantic skyscrapers than care for the people ...sounds like the USA to me. Looks like the "AP" is the new Fox news. Notice the asshole uses the word "his" money. I heard another asshole today on WUSF radio calling Venezuela a communist country. WTF!

[sabrina 1]

1. Omg, he invested his country's oil wealth in the people who own it.

Well, that explains why they hated him. Not his people, they seem to love him enough to keep on electing him. But what do they know? WE know what is best for everyone on the planet!

All their oil are belong to us!

[Hayabusa]

2. That evil bastard!

How dare he!?

[sabrina 1]

3. Well, we don't have to worry about that happening here. All OUR oil profits

go to foreign oil cartels, as they should. No wasted money on keeping Americans alive here from OUR oil profits. Hell, we let tens of thousands of them die each year, from OUR oil revenues.

Not to worry though, I am sure we have people waiting in the wings to make sure that there will be no more such nonsense in Venezuela and those oil revenues will be returned to those who have a right to them.

Unbelievable article, well not really. I guess it's at least honest about the real reason why Western powers hated Chavez.

[whathehell]

4. + 10 n/t

[Hayabusa]

6. You're right

anything else would be anti-capitalist and wrong.

[L0oniX]

7. US Plots Conquest of Venezuela in Wake of Chavez' Death ...let the fun/war/greed begin.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34201.htm

[sabrina 1]

19. There has to be a way to stop what this government does. The only people that can do

that are the American people. I am hopeful however, that Chavez had enough time to educate the people about their rights to their own resources and that they will no longer tolerate the theft of their resources by this country or any other.

[AlbertCat]

10. All OUR oil profits go to foreign oil cartels

Hell... we PAY them to take our profits too!

[RILib]

11. Libya

Let me just point out that Libya had free medical care and free education regardless of gender through college under Qaddhafi. Hillary's sure glad he's gone though. I can still see her laughing her head off on the news: "We came, we saw, he died."

[greiner3]

16. Are you sure you are posting on the correct web site?

I see you have enjoyed your stay so far.

[idwiyo]

26. Umm, what's wrong with that post exactly?

[sabrina 1]

18. Yes, another country that dared to use their own oil to provide free HC, free homes

for the homeless and the disabled, free education even for those who wanted to go abroad to get it. We cannot have oil money paying for such things so we go and we show them what democracy is all about.

I will never forget that brutal war crime in Libya, nor will most of the world, especially Africa. As Desmond Tutu said about the horrible admission from Hillary, 'the murder of Gadaffi should have made every decent person in the world recoil'. But we do not recoil at murder and torture, we should be ashamed, some of us are.

[idwiyo]

27. Oh my gawd! Can't you see how much better off they are now? Like they are TOTALY free

to let other nice multinational companies still their oil and natural resources! YAY!

[whathehell]

5. Socialist Commie Bastard!! How dare his country use their own resources for their own people?!

I was surprised and disgusted when I heard MSNBC's Alex Wagner,

someone I had thought progressive, repeatedly trash him as a "dictator".

I sent her a tweet schooling her to the fact that this "dictator" was democratically

elected Four times!

[L0oniX]

8. Don't they know who General Smedley Butler is? n/t

[whathehell]

15. I know about General Smedley Butler, but

I'm not sure what the connection here is.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. She's a beltway type....

I bet she also believes Reagan won the Cold War.

[whathehell]

17. You mean Alex Wagner?

That could be, I don't know much about her,

but I liked her personality and she seemed (unlike, say, Andrea Mitchell)

so at least be a solid Dem, so

I recorded her show on DVR every day, but stopped when I

heard her trashing Chavez.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

22. Read her bio. She grew up in DC.

[whathehell]

24. Whatever.

[Comrade Grumpy]

9. Wows. That's pretty embarrassing for the AP.

[KamaAina]

13. You can't spell 'crap' without AP

srsly, when I saw that headline without AP in front of it I thought it was The Onion.

[barbtries]

14. i had to follow the links.

i kept thinking the writer had to have been taken out of context somehow, but no: she really, apparently believes that big gaudy skyscrapers are worth more than a population lifted out of poverty. how pathetic is that.

[jsr]

20. China has tons of spectacular construction projects

In fact, whole new cities that are sitting empty.

[Octafish]

21. She's bound to make Editor.

Heck, Publisher.

[uponit7771]

23. After reading this I'm convinced that the US didn't like Chavez cause he proved socialism was good..

...for the majority

[Wilms]

25. ^