Comments on: So you want to know what Chavez’ economic plan is?

By: Kepler

Kepler — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:16:00 +0000

Qué vaina América Latina
http://el-nacional.com/www/site/p_contenido.php?q=nodo/103582/Internacional/Evo-Morales:El-D%C3%ADa-de-la-Hispanidad-es-d%C3%ADa-del-luto
Ahora los bolivianos quieren tener su “propio” satélite, como los venezolanos.
We really seem to be behaving like the Indians who gave gold to the Spaniards for some pieces of broken glass.
Now we are giving dollars to the Asians.

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Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:25:05 +0000

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By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:59:35 +0000

All these years while about all Chavez has done is talk about what he will do someday. An economist by the name of DeSoto has been doing it one Indian at a time in Peru. http://www.ild.org.pe/ (also in Spanish) . PBS ran a show Friday about him and his program.

By: gomezcal

gomezcal — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:40:03 +0000

Even their own embellished statistics give them the lie. According to the social security web site (www.ivss.gov.ve) there are 3,958,446 insured workers and 1,392,436 receive retirement pensions. According to the INE (ine.gov.ve), the active population was 12,965,967 in August 2009, of whom 11,933,433 were employed. That means the rate of insured workers is 30.52 % of the active population and 33,17 % of those employed.

By: ErneX

ErneX — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:18:33 +0000

I was reading the plans until I read:

“Misión árbol, poryecto dedicado a la reforestación.”

Their brains must be really swollen right now with all that MIT level of brain activity they had to endure to come up with such a “plan”.

By: moses

moses — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:29:03 +0000

And in the meanwhile…. the most important highway in Venezuela is collapsing (Km 24) and even the Government supporters are mad at the Government …

See:

http://www.aporrealos.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=337925&sid=3b32ffd6dd3328de27516a26ba222909

http://www.noticias24.com/actualidad/noticia/96819/una-falla-de-borde-en-el-kilometro-24-de-la-arc-se-comio-el-hombrillo/

By: island canuck

island canuck — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:56:39 +0000

Miguel said: “He also said that 75% of Venezuelans had social security coverage (hello?)”

Didn’t he say 95%? I remember when I read this just how crazy a number it was when you think of the number of self employed & non traditional workers we have in Venezuela, like street vendors, who for sure are not registered with Seguros Social.

By: deananash

deananash — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:46:02 +0000

Slightly off topic, but not by much.

I just read an interesting article on American politics and since for years I’ve been encouraging the Venezuelan opposition to satirize Chavez, I thought that, with Miguel’s permission, I’d promote the article.

Here’s an excerpt:

“Satire helped undermine both Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. And as Reagan’s pollster, Richard Wirthlin, put it then: “the danger” of political satire “arises when the humor portrays the president as silly or impotent or portrays what he’s trying to do as irrelevant–when it attacks some of the basic elements of his leadership.”

“Mocking the powerful is as old as Ben Franklin. A JFK impersonator won a Grammy in 1963 for satirizing the Kennedys. By the late 1970s, SNL became political satire’s defining institution.”

Chevy Chase made Gerald Ford a klutz. Dana Carvey parodied George Bush as the wimpy, “wouldn’t be prudent” president. Phil Hartman nailed Clinton as the fast food president in his McDonalds skit, cheapening Clinton as a man after the easy pleasures. Just last year, Tina Fey devastated Sarah Palin as a silly, high school cheerleading airhead.”

You can read the entire article here: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/10/08/is_obama_becoming_a_joke__98619.html