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MrRodgers -> RE: 'We Venezuelans are dying of hunger' (2/14/2017 11:44:47 PM)
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ORIGINAL: AtUrCervix
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ORIGINAL: BoscoX
WTF do you think you going to do, to save people, from voting for socialists
Nope. They'll vote for whoever brings them food.
Personally....I'm not running for anything....nor am I looking for votes.
But I do (know) we can feed them.
And "starving" in countries such as this....just ain't the same as....wishing you'd had an extra burger at lunch....or an extra bag of fries.....here.
Where you are.
(Or here....where I am).
In your very comfortable home....with a 45 inch TV, among several other fantastic gifts you were given by....a VERY lucky lottery; (your birth place).
No white or other guilt meant here....just human decency...this thread started out with a valid comment; about these people.
I'm offering something other than derision....something more than "FUCK YOU!!! DA FUQ do you know??? Why....when I was a kid....by GAWD....I had to walk UP HILL.......BOTH WAYS.....barefoot....in theSNOW (and it doesn't even SNOW HERE....but that's what I had to do!!!!"
I'm offering an opportunity for you....me...and others....to give back. I said clearly above....I'm not much of a researcher but....I can write checks.
So....social network....do your thing!
Help those who would love to....to do so.
Starving....for these people is.....500 calories a day (or less)....when your lunch was well over 1,500, and where you stopped off on the way home....added another 2 lbs because...it was another 1,200 calories..
(Now, the question is how to do it).
And as decent human beings....we should try.
I'm simply asking that THIS social network steps up.
(I don't think that's a lot to ask).
I'm ready to write a check...yours can be small, others can be large. I don't see the size of someone's check as the deciding factor in......who gave more.
I do, however, see value in trying.
The outside world thinks we're freaks.
What if....en mass....we showed them....we're no different from them....indeed on a few occasions.....we were them and now....we're here to help....in any way we can.
I have to write that while I do like your thinking and even admire a little your passion but I do think charity starts at home. What we send could go right down the shitter and if it weren't for the predominantly western creed of maximized profits...we'd have helped them long ago by doing a better deal on their oil.
But it isn't this govt. or the previous govt. It has been their history since 1914 when they discovered oil and even though now...No. 1 in reserves. I like looking this shit up:
The United States became a world power and imperialist nation, intent on expanding its overseas markets and guided by the social Darwinist belief that strong nations and superior races would dominate weaker nations and peoples. When Cipriano Castro (1898-1908) resisted U.S. influence, American leaders reacted angrily, displaying both their sense of racial superiority and their contempt for Latin Americans who opposed their will. Theodore Roosevelt called Castro “an unspeakably villainous little monkey” demonizing Castro as Americans have done to Pancho Villa, Augusto Sandino, Fidel Castro, and Daniel Ortega. In 1902 Germany, Italy, and Great Britain blockaded the Venezuelan coast in an effort to collect debts, an event that crystallized the emergence of Venezuelan nationalism.
Yet this was one of the last acts of European armed intervention in the Caribbean. By the early twentieth century, the Europeans had largely withdrawn and the United States exercised growing hegemony. Though Theodore Roosevelt badly wanted to take military action against Venezuela, he failed to build the public support he thought necessary to carry out such action. During this period of expansion in the Caribbean area, many U.S. leaders feared absorbing more people of color into the national amalgam. Venezuelans who worked for U.S. oil companies and other foreign-owned businesses in their country resented the often prejudiced treatment they received from their employers, who frequently preferred foreign workers. Such resentment did not go unnoticed. 'This' indicates that “numerous observers from the United States commented on the anti-Americanism of the poor, or ’unenlightened’ classes”
Then as far as I read and have known, the US jumped in bed with various oil and economically friendly dictators, made sure they stayed in power, i.e. making sure there was never too much democracy. Which as in other places, sets up a new socialist kleptocratic, oligarch...just what we need if we'd just give them a deal on selling their heavy and more expensive crude oil. We won't. Their pride and obstinacy does fuck them now.
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