Chavez calls on Obama to follow path of socialism

**tsptalk** · 03-07-2009, 03:30 AM

http://www.drudgereport.com/flashco.htm

CHAVEZ CALLS ON OBAMA TO FOLLOW PATH OF SOCIALISM
Fri Mar 06 2009 17:13:48 ET

Caracas - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday called upon US President Barack Obama to follow the path to socialism, which he termed as the "only" way out of the global recession. "Come with us, align yourself, come with us on the road to socialism. This is the only path. Imagine a socialist revolution in the United States," Chavez told a group of workers in the southern Venezuelan state of Bolivar.

The controversial Venezuelan leader, who taunted the United States as a source of capitalistic evil under former president George W Bush, added that the United States needs a leader who can take it to a "higher" destiny and bring it out of "the sad role that it has been given, as a murderous, attacking power that is hated all around the world."

Chavez said that people are calling Obama a "socialist" for the measures of state intervention he is taking to counter the crisis, so it would not be too far-fetched to suggest that he might join the project of "21st century socialism" that the Venezuelan leader is heading.

"Nothing is impossible. Who would have thought in the 1980s that the Soviet Union would disappear? No one," he said.

"That murderous, genocidal empire has to end, and some day there has to come a leader ... who interprets the best of a people who also include human beings who suffer, endure, weep and laugh," the outspoken Chavez said.

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**nnuut** · 03-07-2009, 04:26 AM

Looks like we have two of them?

**Show-me** · 03-07-2009, 12:45 PM

They're buddies now! lol

**CountryBoy** · 03-07-2009, 09:42 PM

It sure doesn't suprise me either, 2 peas in a pod.

BHO has him on speed dial.

CB

**ChemEng** · 03-07-2009, 10:25 PM

More pointless rattling of sabers.

Why wasn't anyone complaining of socialism with TARP 1 under W?

**Show-me** · 03-08-2009, 04:34 AM

Originally Posted by ChemEng

More pointless rattling of sabers.

Why wasn't anyone complaining of socialism with TARP 1 under W?

Hello! Me, writing letters screaming at the TV!

**budnipper1** · 03-08-2009, 05:29 AM

Socialists will defend Chavez and say he is right and that we should follow his example. "Spread the wealth" is their motto, by robbing from people who earned their wealth and handing it out to the rest who didn't. But stuffing their own pockets is their ultimate goal. And they do more finger pointing than the ones who disagree with their agenda.

**ChemEng** · 03-08-2009, 07:25 AM

Originally Posted by budnipper1

"Spread the wealth" is their motto, by robbing from people who earned their wealth and handing it out to the rest who didn't.

Isn't that what all taxes do?

**Christopher** · 03-08-2009, 07:57 AM

I think not, ChemEng. Some level of taxation will always be necessary in order to support Constitutional requirements. Societally, some rely on taxes because they can't EARN wealth - examples: children, the handicapped, widows, the incarcerated, etc. - that's hardly robbery. I think the issue has been, is, and always will be: are taxes levied in a FAIR manner upon those who ARE earning wealth? The disconbobulation called the Federal Tax Code is THE prime example of how taxes are levied in an UNFAIR manner. A proud and selfish Congress (for the most part, anyway) has typically been at the root of the problem, feeding it while exempting themselves from it, aided and abetted by the IRS which is simply following orders in order to stay funded and thereby maintain job security for itself.

Originally Posted by ChemEng

Isn't that what all taxes do?

Originally Posted by budnipper1

"Spread the wealth" is their motto, by robbing from people who earned their wealth and handing it out to the rest who didn't. But stuffing their own pockets is their ultimate goal. And they do more finger pointing than the ones who disagree with their agenda.

**James48843** · 03-08-2009, 08:05 AM

Watch this movie- and you'll understand the issue:

http://www.iousathemovie.com/

Worth watching.

**Show-me** · 03-08-2009, 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by James48843

Watch this movie- and you'll understand the issue:

http://www.iousathemovie.com/

Worth watching.

Yes, this should be required watching the last two years of high school.

**Show-me** · 03-08-2009, 09:11 AM

Originally Posted by ChemEng

Isn't that what all taxes do?

Not originally, basically just used for the defense of citizens and general welfare. I think the "general welfare" part has been blown way, way, way, out of proportion and the taxes are not "uniform".

Section 8 - Powers of Congress
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html