Why Chavez Chose Social Safety Net Over Skyscrapers

[Catherina]

Thom Hartmann: Why Chavez Chose Social Safety Net Over Skyscrapers

Venezuelans revered Hugo Chavez for the same reason that officials here in the U.S. hated him

[ocpagu]

1. Perfect explanation.

He's absolutely right. Thank you for this video.

[Peace Patriot]

2. Wow! Thank you, Thom Hartmann!

Poor children with classical musical instruments* in their hands, or books or computers--and decent food in their bellies, and decent clothes on their backs--are far, far, FAR more valuable to the world than all the skyscapers in Dubai!

There is really no comparison. That anybody would compare them--let alone favorably to Dubai skyscrapers--that anyone would write or publish such an offensive attack on the poor--is a symptom of our sick and decayed moneyed class and their craven scribblers. It's the kind of thing careless rich people said to each other as their Titanic went down (the one in 1929). It's the kind of thing Marie Antoinette is reported to have said ("Let them eat cake.&quot It is cruel and barbarous. Our rich and their 'celebrity' columnists are the new barbarians.

It is no doubt why FDR said, "Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!"

The rich can be truly vile.

I guess I shouldn't condemn a class. Let me instead condemn the Associated Pukes and their so-called reporter, Pamela Sampson, for shoving this putrid mountain of crap on the rest of us, rich and poor:

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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. --Associated Pukes, so-called reporter Pamela Sampson

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They really said that. Not all rich people would agree, I'm sure. But the Associated Pukes--who are among the worst shoveler's of anti-Chavez excrement in the world (I don't call them the Associated Pukes for nothing!)--want to force this viewpoint upon us all as THEIR terms of OUR political debate: the poor vs. skyscrapers.

Of course, their alleged reporter doesn't tell you about the slave labor in Dubai, the human trafficking in Dubai, the wretched status of women in Dubai, the insanity and inhumanity of Dubai's laws (see the first link below), the prostitution in all those monuments to sheikdom, the working conditions in those dreadful structures, or the corruption, perversion and utter hypocrisy of those who built them. The U.A.E. is a disgusting country, now headquarters for Blackwater, if you didn't know--grand central station for dirty ops throughout the Middle East.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Dubai
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/blackwater-xe-uae-compound/

THAT, my friends, is what the Associated Pukes is holding up as a good use of oil money--as compared to Venezuela's New Deal of jobs, good wages and benefits for all, education for all, health care for all, housing for all, public participation and real democracy. The U.A.E., in addition to its perversions and corruption, and hosting Blackwater, is a religious monarchy!

'Kings' can stick their egos into the sky, with their self-aggrandizing pinnacles, only by robbing everybody else!

Nailed you, AP! Or you nailed yourselves! What a bunch of Pukes!



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In addition to other social programs, the Chavez government has massively funded the educationally revolutionary Venezuelan Children's Orchestra, which has now spread its brilliant educational program far and wide in Venezuela and throughout the world. El Sistema, as its founder called it, involves intensive classical music training for orchestra playing, for very poor children as young as 4 and 5, and has transformed the lives of thousands and thousands of children, who speak of it in reverential tones, and often in later life mention the communal and cooperative aspects of music as the most important things they learned. Their performances have been praised by music critics as "the rebirth of classical music" so vibrant and original are their interpretations.