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February 28, 2006
Venezuela expands controversial US fuel sales
Controversial?? These right wing media outlets really need to stop parroting the radical right talking points. There is no controversy, the Republicans in Washington have failed to step up and make sure poor Americans aren't freezing to death in their homes. Venezuela has decided that it's a shameful state of affairs and has decided to step in and help those Americans out. The Republicans hate the poor so nothing would make them happier than to kill off as many as they can. It's just one of those things that Republicans, no matter what their socioeconomic class, seem to believe. People are bad off because they "want" to be. I've disproved this Republican thinking point a million times, so I'm not going to bother to point out how stupid it is again. I wrote up a decent post on the subject months ago, so go read that. Anyway, for all the heartburn it gives the America hating right wingers it's nothing more than a shrewd business move by Citgo. This is the kind of thing you do to win customers. Right wingers hate the notion of personal responsibility for anything, but the notion of corporate responsibility makes them violently ill. Citgo knows that decent blue state people will support companies that do their part to keep poor people from freezing to death. This is a brilliant business move in blue states. Now in the red states where they work night and day to kill off poor people, it wouldn't play well and you see that kind of response from Republicans in Congress who are screaming and yelling about helping the poor and helpless being a bad idea. That's it's better for them to freeze to death rather than help them out.
Read more over at Yahoo News.
Posted by ManDrake at February 28, 2006 10:50 AM
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