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Title: AP: Chavez Wasted His Money on Healthcare When He Could Have Built Gigantic Skyscrapers
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URL Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34212.htm
Published: Mar 8, 2013
Author: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info
Post Date: 2013-03-08 06:59:35 by tom007
Keywords: None
Views: 258
Comments: 4

AP: Chavez Wasted His Money on Healthcare When He Could Have Built Gigantic Skyscrapers

By Jim Naureckas

March 07, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - "FAIR" --- One of the more bizarre takes on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's death comes from Associated Press business reporter Pamela Sampson (3/5/13):

Chavez invested Venezuela's oil wealth into social programs including state-run food markets, cash benefits for poor families, free health clinics and education programs. But those gains were meager compared with the spectacular construction projects that oil riches spurred in glittering Middle Eastern cities, including the world's tallest building in Dubai and plans for branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums in Abu Dhabi.

That's right: Chavez squandered his nation's oil money on healthcare, education and nutrition when he could have been building the world's tallest building or his own branch of the Louvre. What kind of monster has priorities like that? Venezuelan Poverty Rate

Souce: NACLA's Keane Bhatt

In case you're curious about what kind of results this kooky agenda had, here's a chart (NACLA, 10/8/12) based on World Bank poverty stats–showing the proportion of Venezuelans living on less than $2 a day falling from 35 percent to 13 percent over three years. (For comparison purposes, there's a similar stat for Brazil, which made substantial but less dramatic progress against poverty over the same time period.)

Of course, during this time, the number of Venezuelans living in the world's tallest building went from 0 percent to 0 percent, while the number of copies of the Mona Lisa remained flat, at none. So you have to say that Chavez's presidency was overall pretty disappointing–at least by AP's standards.

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#1. To: All (#0)

Tells ya all ya need to know about the AP/

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tom007  posted on  2013-03-08   7:04:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: tom007 (#1)

Tells ya all ya need to know about the AP/

Read outside the box - turn off the TEL AVIV ISION ... if we ever overcome the bankers and the media the politicians will eat their own children instead of ours.

We should all be livid. Stop acting like docile, mentally castrated pussies and grow a pair. It's time to get in their face. Why should we speak in hushed tones and act all polite when we are being raped every day?

noone222  posted on  2013-03-08   7:33:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: tom007 (#0)

I enjoyed reading about his country's 12 cents a gallon price for gasoline. What's the price these days?

Fred Mertz  posted on  2013-03-08   8:42:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Fred Mertz (#3)

I enjoyed reading about his country's 12 cents a gallon price for gasoline. What's the price these days?

Dunno, but I'd guess less than $3.69

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tom007  posted on  2013-03-09   21:16:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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