Say. It. With. Me.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened on Monday to close or take over any private school that refuses to submit to the oversight of his socialist government as it develops a new curriculum and textbooks.
"Society cannot allow the private sector to do whatever it wants," said Chavez, speaking on the first day of classes.
Certainly not. Chavez's rule may be threatened if it did.
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I was in a discussion on a different blog. I mentioned that Zimbabwe fascinated me because it eminded me of the last few chapters of Atlas Shrugged. A poster replied that Venezuela must remind me of the first few....
...learnin' about socialism.
I understand that "private sector" is almost as distasteful a concept to our own homegrown hardcore lefties as it is to Hugo, but doesn't this incident give their bleeding little hearts at least some concern?
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"We want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged." - Colonel Henry Knox
doesn't this incident give their bleeding little hearts at least some concern?
Many of them were thrilled when he crushed the opposition press... they just wish that could be done here with the "corporate propaganda machines" that are ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN, and of course, "Faux News." I'm not sure if MSNBC qualifies as a corporate propagandist, but even that steaming pile probably makes the list. It is run by evil corporations, after all.
Those on the left have no problem with totalitarianism, so long as it follows a leftist ideology.
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman
In the vein of SIConservative's excellent diary called Defeating Democrats by Attacking Democrats......
Put a picture of Hugo next to the picture of Democrat candidates.
It's war -- so when can we start shooting back at the enemy Democrats?
We need to use side by side pictures that may shake voters to the reality of where the Democrats are leading this country.
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a couple of years ago for suggesting the world would be better off without this piece of human trash.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
He got into heat because he called for an illegal assassination.
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Reality: Thompson/Romney Dream: Santorum/Watts.
...but, like clockwork, he does something to prove that we're right on the money about this monster.
Man, does it ever suck to be right sometimes... and the Venezuelan people suffer as a result.
"I don't understand why the same newspaper commentators who bemoan the terrible education given to poor people are always so eager to have those poor people get out and vote." - P.J. O'Rourke
to make sure that the school curriculum is Socialist enough! Heck, they could just use the US curriculum.
Don't know how he's going to top his "I can still smell the sulfur" speech from last year.