Chavez makes energetic homecoming after surgery

[Marksman_91]

30. The fact that I'm not a struggling citizen

doesn't mean shit when he's been in power for nearly 14 years. The man has completely ignored the real problems that plague our country. Sure, he may have given more to the poor than the previous governments, but come on, he's already been in power longer than the last 2 governments combined, and crime rates are only getting worse, our inflation keeps growing, the country isn't producing SHIT except for oil, and even in that field, PDVSA is having huge financial problems. You compare a photo of Caracas today with one from 1998, and you'll see that slums and shanty towns have grown exponentially since then. Chavez hasn't distributed the wealth fairly among the population, all he's done is buy the poors' conscience with some extra cash here and there to make himself look like a selfless man, and blamed all the country's problems on previous governments and the US. But people will only buy that bullcrap for so long, and now it's gotten to the point that less and less people are believing that our problems are caused by forces outside of Chavez's control. It's been almost 14 goddamn years, for crying out loud! And with oil prices higher than ever, the amount of cash we're getting would've been more than enough to solve our problems, but alas, all we see is rampant crime, poor infrastructure, a weakening economy, and less production overall.

Don't think that every person who is financially comfortable hates the poor and oppresses them. Granted, I come from a wealthy family, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't like to see a more fair socio-economic system to replace rampant capitalism. Hell, in fact, I kind of hate the über-consumerist society that the US consists of. I only wish the US could embrace the more socialist egalitarian policies that some European countries have, and that someday a cultural revolution takes place which makes them consider their overly consuming lifestyle. But Chavez's socialism is only a mask, a mask which he has cleverly used to gain support from the people while at the same time allowing him and his band of delinquents running his government to make themselves more rich than anybody else in the country.