CITGO facts:
CITGO facts:
Although boycotting CITGO gas stations would hurt a lot of Americans employed by CITGO.
“Although CITGO may be owned by Petróleos de Venezuela, it is a formerly American company which is still headquartered in the U.S. (in Houston, Texas), employs 4,000 people, and supplies 14,000 independent retailers with gasoline and other petroleum products — Americans with no substantive connection to Venezuela who would be economically harmed by such an action.”
taken from http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/citgo.asp
Boycotting CITGO is the best choice to hurt Hugo Chavez where it counts. Hugo receives somewhere in the vicinity of 1 million dollars a day from sales of gasoline to U.S. consumers.
“U.S. taxpayers subsidizing
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez
Obscure 17-year-old oil pricing formula
pays up to $1 million a day to harsh critic”taken from http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51609
This is what is considered fruit of the poisonous tree.
Although Hugo Chavez claims to be the supporter of the poor, he is merely a great political manipulator. The United States enjoys the number one GDP in the world, an inflation level of 3.2%, and an unemployment level of 4.6%. Whereas, the Economy of Venezuela enjoys an inflation level of 16%, an unemployment level of 12.2%, and a population where 35% of the nation is under the poverty level. Even more depressing is the fact that economic conditions in Venezuela are only going to get worse., even when gas prices are at an all time high. So truly, who is really taking care of the poor?
“There is considerable income inequality. According to official sources, the percentage of poor and extremely poor among the Venezuelan population increased from 39.4% in 1995 to 48.1% in 2002. This increase has been due primarily to lower real wages earned by employees and increased unemployment. It has also been argued that because of recent census efforts many more poor and extremely poor people are now being included in economic analyses. The recent increases in poverty and unemployment statistics might in fact be due to a more realistic appraisal of the socioeconomic conditions of Venezuela, and not due to the economic planning and control of the semi-socialist system.”taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Venezuela
U.S. Liberals love to tout Hugo’s great philanthropy, and “programs” to take care of his poor with “oil” money, but let’s be realistic.
“Of the top oil producing countries in the world, only one is a democracy with a president who was elected on a platform of using his nation’s oil revenue to benefit the poor.”
Hugo does not support democracy. He is a socialist. Plain and simple. Hugo Chavez supports his poor people in the same way that Vladimir Lenin, Slobodan Miloševi?, Robert Mugabe, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Fidel Castro and H? Chí Minh took care of their people.
Hugo Chavez is a charismatic speaker that knows how to use key words to inspire a crowd. Hugo Chavez knows how to manipulate the Liberal U.S. media, and Hugo Chavez, does not care about anyone but Hugo Chavez.
Wake up American Liberals, Socialism is still Socialism. Even when it is disguised as a democracy taking care of its people.
October 16th, 2009 at 1:33 am
Everyone seems to forget that Chavez is the same person that threatened America with rocket attacks during the Cuba missile crises, and planned to plant 5000+ bombs in the New York city transit system to disrupt the American capitalist system. Why are we trying to be friends with this anti America socialist now?