Bush: Chavez should do more to combat poverty....

[liberaliraqvet26]

Is he kidding?? Please say this is a joke.

Heard from Lou Dobbs

[justiceischeap]

1. Ha... HaHa.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

It's so sad it's funny.

[Emillereid]

2. The unmitigated gall of this asshole!

[Selatius]

3. Chavez's economic policies are helping to boost the economy

Last quarter, the economy grew at something like 9 percent.

[achtung_circus]

4. Tell me this is a joke, I'm in the Lounge, right?

I insist on a link, I want to see him say this with a straight face.

[Career Prole]

5. Yeah...and Chavez should stop invading other countries

and leaking the names of CIA agents.

bush is an ass.

[brainshrub]

6. Hahahahahahahahahaha! ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

Oh wow, Bush should have had a career in comedy! What a charater!

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

7. Projection.

Listen carefully to what this IDIOT says about his adversaries.

It ALWAYS applies to him.

[murray hill farm]

14. you are so right!!

any time u listen to bush, everything he says is a projection...everything..viewing everything he says in this way is the only way to understand who he is..what the truth is...and it is true every time he speaks.

[EFerrari]

30. Hermanita, the scary thing for me is, it's not just the monkey

it's the way the whole mechanism works!

And I have a great deal of confidence in the American people. Let's see how well we do.

:hug:

Beth

[DearAbby]

8. * combats poverty by taking food out of the mouths of poor children

to give to the rich for their tax breaks...yeah right Boooosh you have alot of room to talk

[htuttle]

9. No way! He didn't!

He said that?

Well, I'm quite certain Hugo Chavez will take his advice and do even more for the poor...but Señor Danger probably isn't going to like it!

[Fridays Child]

10. Another Bush "we create our own reality" moment.

Remember, when he talks about war, what he's really talking about is peace.

[enlightenment]

11. As my jaw dropped, my roomie said,

"oh. He must mean that Chavez isn't doing enough to combat the poverty of the RICH people."

makes sense. unfortunately.

[wryter2000]

12. Jesus on a trailer hitch!

Did Chavez smack him? Please tell me Chavez smacked him.

[Delphinus]

13. OMG!

That's like the pot calling the kettle black! Wake up and see what's happening in your own neck of the woods, jerkoff.

What's that bible quote - something about removing a mote in your own eye before trying to get it out of someone else's?

He is SUCH an assho*e.

[leesa]

27. But Chavez has worked miracles for the poor in his country. What are you

talking about, "pot calling the kettle black"?

[WarNoMore]

15. I know, huh?

I 'bout flipped out when I heard that.

[drb]

16. WTF!!?!???!!

[IndianaGreen]

17. There are 37 million poor people in the US

and they are getting poorer and their numbers are increasing. Meanwhile Bush is happily cutting funding for food stamps and defeating attempts to increase the minimum wage.

Bush is the anti-Christ, if there was such a thing!

[Orrin_73]

34. and what about the 42 million uninsured in the USA

youre right. * does not care about the poor in the USA but he cares about the poor in other nations, what a wonderful president. Choosen by the americans to serve other nations.

[terrya]

18. That's breathtaking assholeness.

Cooking utensil, meet cooking utensil

[Zynx]

19. Ummmmmmm..... George.......

STFU! Do not speak when you don't know what the hell you're talking about!

[Cha]

20. bush needs to answer

Chavez' challenge to debate and then see what bunnypants has to say..if you can hear him under the table.

[BronxBoy]

21. Now that's funny..n/t

[grannylib]

22. OMG. Just more reThug cluelessness/accusing others of that which they

themselves are guilty.

What a moran. What a stupid, tasteless, clueless moran.

[rpannier]

23. Well let's be fair here...

scrubbie is having a yin-yang moment. scrub is causing poverty so someone has to balance it by combating poverty.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

24. THat's all he had to say? Come on Monkey Boy, call him a cabrón!

:evilgrin:

[GRLMGC]

25. Oh Jesus Christ

What. an. asshole. A major league asshole

[IDemo]

26. Chavez should also promote democracy and fair elections,,,whoops!

[Aimah]

28. Hypocrisy

Kind of like Bush talking to Robert Mugabe about election reform.

[Doctor_J]

29. OMFG

See, this is a problem with having a complete idiot in the WH. They can tell him to say anything and he will say it, because he doesn't have a clue how stupid it sounds.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

31. Maybe he meant poverty in the USA. Chavez did offer help

during the hurricanes etc.

:rofl:

[texpatriot2004]

32. What a hypocrite Chumpy is. n.t

[tanyev]

33. He didn't mean combat poverty. He meant combat the poor.

Just like Bush has.

[zann725]

35. Is that the Pot calling the alleged-Kettle black?

Chavez HAS made efforts to help his poor citizens, and even offerred "aid" here in U.S. and abroad.

[0007]

36. Lou Dobb just loves to plug junior when he can......

Republican shills are all the same.

Screw you Lou Dobb!!

[1932]

37. Chavez has reduced poverty. Even Knight-Ridder admits it:

Economic Growth is a Home Run in Venezuela
Wednesday, Nov 02, 2005
By: Mark Weisbrot - Knight-Ridder News Service

CARACAS - "Viva Chavez," shouted Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, as the team celebrated its World Series sweep last week. Guillen is Venezuelan, and a national hero in this country of 25 million people who seem to believe that they too, along with Chicagoans, have won the World Series.

Stats from the article:

- Chavez' popularity is now among the highest of any president in Latin America, with a 77 percent approval rating, according to the latest polling.

- After growing nearly 18 percent last year, the Venezuelan economy has expanded 9.3 percent for the first half of this year - the fastest economic growth in the hemisphere.

Although the government's detractors like to say this is just a result of high oil prices, it is not so simple.

Oil prices were even higher and rose much faster in the 1970s. But Venezuela's income per person actually fell during the 1970s. In fact, for the 28 years that preceded the current government (1970-1998), Venezuela suffered one of the worst economic declines in Latin America and the world: per capita income fell by 35 percent. This is a worse decline than even sub-Saharan Africa suffered during this period, and shows how completely dysfunctional the economic policies of the old system had become.

- The Venezuelan government's economic policies are gradualist reform, more akin to a European-style social democracy. The private sector is actually a larger share of the Venezuelan economy today than it was before Chavez took office.

- By requiring both foreign and domestically-owned companies to pay the taxes they owe, the government actually increased tax collection even during the deep recession of 2003.

- The government is currently running a budget surplus, despite billions of dollars of increased social spending that now provides subsidized food to 40 percent of the population, health care for millions of poor people, and greatly increased education spending.

- The official poverty rate has fallen to 38.5 percent from its most recent peak of 54 percent after the opposition oil strike. But this measures only cash income; if the food subsidies and health care were taken into account, it would be well under 30 percent.

- The country's public debt and foreign debt are at moderate levels. With an accumulated $30 billion of reserves - perhaps twice what the country needs -- Venezuela is well-poised to maintain growth even if oil prices drop unexpectedly.


The present government, which has had less than three years of political stability - attempts to overthrow the government through violence and large-scale economic sabotage did not cease until the oil strike collapsed in February 2003 -- has set the economy on a solid growth path. And it has kept its promise to share the nation's oil wealth with the poor.

In short, the vast majority of Venezuelans got what they voted for, and even some who voted against the government now seem to be satisfied with the result. It's a pretty good start, and whatever the Bush administration thinks of Chavez - who calls President Bush "Mr. Danger" - it's the way democracy is supposed to work.

http://www.cepr.net/columns/weisbrot/2005_11_01.htm

[newyawker99]

38. LMAO!! What a maroon!

:rofl: