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    Thumbs down Venezuelan leader: 'Capitalism needs to go down'

    Venezuelan leader: 'Capitalism needs to go down'



    By NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press Writer Nasser Karimi, Associated Press Writer 2 hrs 59 mins ago

    TEHRAN, Iran – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ridiculed the G-20 summit's attempts to deal with the global financial meltdown, saying that the "values of capitalism are in crisis" and capitalism "has to end."

    Speaking to Venezuelan state television late Thursday, Chavez said the United States and Britain are "the most guilty" for the financial crisis sweeping the globe because of the financial model "they've been imposing for years."

    "It's impossible that capitalism can regulate the monster that is the world financial system, it's impossible," Chavez said. "Capitalism needs to go down. It has to end. And we must take a transitional road to a new model that we call socialism."

    The Venezuelan leader's comments came during a trip to Iran. In recent years, Chavez and Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — both well-known for their anti-U.S. rhetoric — have boosted economic and political ties.

    During Thursday's summit in London, leaders from the Group of 20 industrial and developing countries promised $1.1 trillion for lending to poorer countries. They also vowed major efforts to clean up banks' tattered balance sheets, get credit flowing again, shut down global tax havens and tighten regulation over hedge funds and other financial high-flyers in the U.S. and elsewhere.

    Chavez belittled the summit's efforts and said the International Monetary Fund must be eliminated.

    Chavez's own economic program to institute socialism in Venezuela could slow as his country's oil-dependent economy suffers from falling crude prices. Inflation there has soared above 30 percent, eroding Venezuelans' salaries.

    In his decade in power, Chavez has boosted state control over the economy and spent heavily on social programs meant to increase his popularity.

    On Friday, Chavez and Iran's president inaugurated a joint commercial bank meant to speed trade and industrial projects between the two nations. Chavez said he will travel to Japan in the coming days to meet with the prime minister as well as business leaders and intellectuals.
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    social programs meant to increase his popularity
    Interesting.....I think that's happening here too......makes conversion to Socialism easier....
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    We can see how well socialism has worked for their countries.
    People have no rights and the elections are fixed.
    Socialized medicine has long waits and people die because the government doesn't want to spend the money.
    Property is taken from the people who worked to earn it. The government controls everything and everyone.

    Pretty much redistribution of wealth, to the government officials and corruption.

    Our economy is in a mess because of some corrupt politicians and some greedy hedge funds. Capitalism is much better than socialism.

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    Hey, you remember Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva , the Brazilian president who used the global financial meltdown to demagogue about “white people with blue eyes?” http://faustasblog.com/?p=11098

    Well, you’ll be happy to know that our president gave him two thumbs up and offered this praise. He’s loco for Lula!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jolie Rouge View Post
    Hey, you remember Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva , the Brazilian president who used the global financial meltdown to demagogue about “white people with blue eyes?” http://faustasblog.com/?p=11098

    Well, you’ll be happy to know that our president gave him two thumbs up and offered this praise. He’s loco for Lula!

    “This is my man, right here. I love this guy.” http://blog.heritage.org/2009/04/03/i-love-this-guy/
    I don't know if Obama is just stupid or so arrogant that he thinks he can say and do whatever he wants with no consequences.

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    Not a chance of Obama caring about Americans.
    He must have agreed with Rev. Wright to have attended his "church" for 20 years. Don't forget Obama's wife said America was a mean country. so many people tried to defend her but looks what is happening now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by katgirl3 View Post
    I don't know if Obama is just stupid or so arrogant that he thinks he can say and do whatever he wants with no consequences.

    I long for the day when we had a president who cared for our country and defended it.
    This economic crisis was caused by white men. Okay, so some of them probably have brown eyes.

    If you're going to level critisism, try to make it accurate. You have to know that Obama is a very intelligent man. You have to know that he is most certainly considering the consequences of his action. I might add that he thinking long term, as opposed, to say, the last administration.

    And you can rest assured that Obama loves this country and will defend it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikej View Post
    This economic crisis was caused by white men. Okay, so some of them probably have brown eyes.

    If you're going to level critisism, try to make it accurate. You have to know that Obama is a very intelligent man. You have to know that he is most certainly considering the consequences of his action. I might add that he thinking long term, as opposed, to say, the last administration.

    And you can rest assured that Obama loves this country and will defend it.



    I just want to get this correct. Your blaming the white man for our economic crisis? No one of any other nationality is to blame? This is why nothing gets fixed or works. Everyone is to busy blaming someone else instead of figuring out how to fix it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jeanea33 View Post
    I just want to get this correct. Your blaming the white man for our economic crisis? No one of any other nationality is to blame?
    Umm, since when is the term "white man" a nationality?

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    There are many reasons for the current recession, no one person, race, nationality, religion, etc. is to blame.
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