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Hugo Chavez to the rescue! Venezuela’s humanitarian leader plans to deliver desperately needed aid to impoverished blue states:
Venezuela has said it will expand a programme to provide cheap home heating fuel to poor Americans, helping low-income families in Vermont and Rhode Island, as well as four Indian tribes in Maine.
Those poor Vermonters, all shivering and ruined after Howard Dean bankrupted their state. Actually, Vermont has the fifth highest minimum wage in the US; Rhode Island is seventh highest, and Maine 12th (the Venezuelan Santa has previously sent aid to Massachusetts, eighth on the list of minimum wage overpayers).
Why these relatively well-off states? Well, perhaps they have extraordinary energy needs that can only be met with Hugo’s help. Except ... they don’t. Maine ranks 16th out of all the states in terms of energy consumed per capita; Vermont is way down in 40th; and Rhode Island, gobbling only 215 million Btu per capita, is the least-consuming state of them all. Chavez is draining his busted nation to assist folk who don’t need assistance. It’s grotesque.
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore,
Galloping through the land;
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore,
Without a merry band;
He steals from the poor and gives to the rich,
Stupid bitch.Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2006 01 08 at 12:37 PM • permalinkChavez is draining his busted nation to assist folk who don’t need assistance. It’s grotesque.
But remember, those states all voted for Kerry…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 01 08 at 01:14 PM • permalinkbill w,
By the way, that is one of the many arguments I presented to Andrew Sullivan when he was ranting about SUV owners being primarily responsible for funding terrorists.
By Sully’s line of reasoning, one could also argue that the Democrats are funding terrorists (or forcing consumers to do so) by blocking any new domestic drilling for oil or gas.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 01 08 at 01:18 PM • permalinkMassachusetts has a state-run program (LIHEAP) to help low-income families pay their winter heating costs. Similar programs are probably in place in the other northeastern states.
It’s a bit bizarre that so-called Progressives are falling all over themselves in praise of a left-wing Latin American caudillo who is transferring wealth from his impoverished nation to families in the U.S. who are already receiving assistance.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2006 01 08 at 01:58 PM • permalinkSappier, the Penobscot tribal chief ... , praised Chavez for his help. “We appreciate him very much as a leader,” he said. “It’s been said he’s one of us. His thinking is like ours.”
Keep them poor, isolated and beholden to politicians for handouts?
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2006 01 08 at 02:07 PM • permalinkBy Sully’s line of reasoning, one could also argue that the Democrats are funding terrorists (or forcing consumers to do so) by blocking any new domestic drilling for oil or gas.
Ah, but point out that little detail and you’ll be listening to a loud rendition of “How Dare You Question My Patriotism.”
Of course, no one lives in Vermont except a handful of old hippies, & poor people can’t afford to live in Rhode Island. As for the Indian tribes, more handouts is definitely what they need
Posted by beautifulatrocities on 2006 01 08 at 04:49 PM • permalink#11 Dave S.,
To update Lenin: “We will burn the last Commie at the stake drenched with the oil he gave us.”Works for me.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 01 08 at 05:29 PM • permalinkWorst. Post. Ever.
Whilst you woolies were indulging in your holiday beach parties, we’re freezing our bits off in Vermont. And with an average temp of 45F, it doesn’t get much better in “summer.”
The reason why we rank so low in per capita energy consumption is that gov has no way to tabulate the heat derived from burning porch railing spindles and naugahide recliners. FYI, we are #1 in harvesting utility poles for our wood stoves. So any fuel assistance we get really helps to keep the grid up.
One more thing: You can’t blame my Howie for the dismal economy here. Vermonters like to work about as much as they like to bathe. This is a practical state of mind where the water exists in a solid state much of the year, but a dire obstruction to commerce. So I’m hoping Bernie Sanders can work out a Sister City deal with Venezuela, as he has with most other Communist countries.
rinardman — Hey, if it wan’t fer Vermont, all those people and the commuters from Massachusetts might move to New Hampshire, ayah?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 08 at 10:21 PM • permalinkY’know, Chave is making a major mistake here. Instead of taking the oil to the blue staters, he should be bringing the blue staters to the oil.
Think about it. He gets all those lefties as token Americans to parade around the place, and saves big bucks in oil transport. The blue staters move to a “socialist” government in a warm climate. The USA loses a bunch of idiots. Everyone wins!!!!!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 01 08 at 11:00 PM • permalinkThe Real JeffS — He’s a deranged, megalomaniacal antisemitic tyrant.
He isn’t stoopid.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 08 at 11:17 PM • permalinkRats! You’re right, richard. Oh, well, back to the planning cell….
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 01 08 at 11:23 PM • permalinkSpot on #27
Parse through the famous ‘objectivity’ of the BBC and we can see that Chavez has already pulled [off] the same petrodollar greased propaganda coup on the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
Mr Chavez announced the Petrocaribe plan in June at a regional summit in Venezuela’s city of Puerto La Cruz.
He said the region had suffered centuries of imperialism and needed to strike out on its own.
Venezuela is a leading oil supplier to the US, but Mr Chavez is seeking to develop diversified energy ties with the Caribbean, Latin America and Asia.
The Petrocaribe initiative aims to reduce the prices Caribbean nations pay for oil imports. Venezuela already gives preferential treatment to communist Cuba and other nations.
Since the above linked BBC narrative, Chavez has embarked on a ”tripartite cooperation”-fest with the mad mullah’s of Tehran. The ongoing circle-jerkathon between trans-National Socialism and Islam’s splodeydope satraps is splooging right along with the hemisphere’s accustomed rainbow coalition of Useful Idiots queing up for their go.
Sadly 13 allegedly ‘proud’ nations in the Caribbean version of the EU (CARICOM) are busily triangulating between what they believe to be either the bounty of another American hand-out fest, or the apparently more desirable ‘progressive’ whoring of their collective credibility out for the privlege of being yapping barkers in Chavez’s shiny happy soup kitchen.
It’s really sad that only two CARICOM nations - Trinidad (which has its own oil) and Barbados (one of the oldest [1639] representative democracies in the America’s) - had the wherewithal to resist Chavez’s slop…The oily gruel that happens not to have turned out to be quite the mealticket PetroCaribe signatories expected.
Apparently sensible Trini and Bajan political leaders may also have benefited through a more rational memory of the Urgent Fury* surrounding the region’s last brush with la Revolución Progresiva.
*Operation Urgent Fury - The Invasion of Grenada (1983)
Maine also has the highest taxes anywhere in the US? Wonder if the pinheads in Maine goverment realise that there might be a link between high taxes and lack of funds to pay for oil?
Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge on 2006 01 09 at 07:12 AM • permalinkMaine also has the highest taxes anywhere in the US? Wonder if the pinheads in Maine goverment realise that there might be a link between high taxes and lack of funds to pay for oil?
We elect Democratic governors, Democratic state legislators, Democratic congressional reps, and RINO senators. Do we sound like people who can add 2 and 2 and get 4?
We also complain about stratospheric housing costs while barring construction of housing developments and setting aside more and more land for preservation (in a state that’s already about 80% empty forest.)
How come I haven’t heard the Gov or senators from those states, including my own, tell the Commie bastard to fuck off yet?
Posted by IcallMasICM on 2006 01 10 at 11:13 AM • permalink
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Only Northeastern states have a very high concentration of people still using heating oil for heat and power plants that use distillate fuels. Most of the rest of the country use electric, natural gas and propane for heat, and nuclear, coal and gas power plants. So Hugo can really only bribe the blue states.
By the way, that is one of the many arguments I presented to Andrew Sullivan when he was ranting about SUV owners being primarily responsible for funding terrorists. That over 60% of the oil being used in the US is not even for cars, much less SUVs.