Thank goodness for CITGO!

[unkachuck]

....500,000 Americans receive free heating oil from the leaders of Venezuela.

....what have your leaders done for you lately?

http://morallowground.com/2012/01/06/the-moral-high-ground-venezuela-resumes-heating-oil-donations-to-400000-americans-as-obama-congress-slash-liheap-heating-assistance-in-dead-of-winter/

[limpyhobbler]

1. that's pathetic

Richest nation in the world allows people to freeze and they have get donations from a developing country. whoo. USA! USA! USA!

[valerief]

3. Well, rich people must get richer. That's the most important thing in the world.

Everyone else are just cockroaches to them.

[think]

2. Nice. Any offers from BP or Exxon-Mobile to match that?

[RC]

5. I wouldn't hold my breath for that.

[Beartracks]

7. C'mon, BP released millions of barrels in 2010!!

Give them some credit for that.

[MoralLowGround.com]

11. Ha!

Nice one!

[SaintPete]

17. thats a duzy

[MoralLowGround.com]

9. As if...

"Kennedy said he approached major US oil companies and oil-producing nations asking them to assist the poor in bearing the burden of rising energy costs. They all said no except for CITGO and the people of Venezuela." -Agence France-Presse, 12/13/11

[tpsbmam]

26. Excellent quote! Welcome to DU!

Just spent a little time at MoralLowGround.com -- I'll have to spend more time tomorrow at a more reasonable hour (and when I'm on my computer, not a tablet). Interesting site -- looks like an excellent resource. So, is the "about..." pic you? This is me being nosy -- loved that pic of a citizen holding the president's feet to the fire, so to speak.

[Fearless]

13. Well there's decidedly less cluttersome life in the Gulf...

That... err... something right?

[DCKit]

4. Thanks Hugo, but you really have to lighten up.

You're losing support here in the U.S..

The stench of sulfur should have left your nostrils by now, it's time to work with U.S. - but not our corporations, the IMF or World Bank. You know better.

[sabrina 1]

8. Don't talk to Hugo about working with the US. He offered his hand to this President when he was

elected hoping that there would be a change in the US' policies toward Latin America. I was looking forward to that also. But Hugo will not give control of his country's oil to the Global Oil Cartels and until he is willing to that, the US will continue to try to undermine him.

China meantime, is not asking for control of Venezuela's oil, they are doing it the normal way, signing contracts with Venezuela and paying for what they need.

It was not Hugo who organized a coup against a democratically elected president here. That was a US backed attempt by traitors working with the Global Capitalists to get rid of the Venezuelan people's choice for president. He's been very willing to set that aside and once thought Obama would change Bush policies towards the Venezuelan people. But incredibly, Obama has continued these horrendous policies of demanding that other sovereign nations hand over their sovereignty to Global Interests.

This is another very disappointing position this president has taken.

[DCKit]

10. Geez, Sabrina, you read a lot more into that than I intended.

While you're right on target, I was making a point about diplomacy, not hard knuckles.

Nor was I equating the situation under BushCo* to the current situation under President Obama.

I feel what you feel, but there are things we can, and things we cannot have control of.

We all (on DU, at least) wish for better for everyone, in every country, but we've got to fix this one first.

[sabrina 1]

12. Sorry, I guess I did misunderstand

So used to the weekly 'let's trash Venezuela' threads I wrongfully reacted. My apologies

Chavez was offering friendship but after being snubbed over and over again, and then after reading the revelations from the Wikileaks cables where it was obvious the US is not interested in a friendship with him and considers him a 'threat to our interests', I think he realized he may even be in danger of another coup and yes, since then, his rhetoric has been much like it used to be when Bush was president. Like the rest of us, he's learning that US foreign policy will not change no matter who is in the WH and until the American people can change that, there is little hope of the US engaging in diplomacy, which would be very easy to do.

I will never understand this. How does it benefit us to always be fighting with everyone in the world?

Anyhow, sorry about my error

[newfie11]

19. Agreed!!

[bvar22]

24. You are correct.

There was no "change" in this US Venezuelan Policy in 2009.
It remains exactly the same as under Bush-the-Lesser.
The democratically elected popular reform president of Venezuela is STILL routinely demonized and called a "dictator"
by representatives of the US Government.



You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
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[oh08dem]

6. Well here in America we believe in the invisible hand of the free market...

to fist fuck us into submission, especially poor people.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

15. LOL. Can we have x-rated Duzy awards?

[provis99]

16. but Chavez is a communist dictator and worships Castro!

in before the usual Venezuela bashers show up.

[DeathToTheOil]

18. We could use that here in Canada...

seeing as Harper and his oily pals only want that XL pipeline

[Scuba]

20. I buy as much of my gas at Citgo as possible. Wish the US would nationalize our oil industry. n/t

[corkhead]

21. we have the opposite; the oil industry has privatized our government.

[Scuba]

22. Well said. n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

25. Exactly! nt.

[qb]

23. K&R Thank you CITGO