10 May 2008
This is My Country and I Love Her
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: General .
Communist regimes have made capitalism a dirty word and linked that and free enterprise with globalism. Although we agree there are serious problems with international trade agreements that supersede constitutions, that is not what capitalism and free enterprise were originally about. America has been made the bad guy and the antidote to our poison is supposedly communism.
The real answer to the problems with globalism is simply getting back to the Constitution, with tariffs and staying out of entangling alliances. The Constitution is the opposite of freedom-limiting globalism, not communism.
I am tired of people like Hugo Chavez blaming the United States for the world’s ills. We give far more than any other country to help the poor. We give many times more than all the countries of Europe combined. Bigger hearted people cannot be found. I am proud to be an American.
Ortega leads anti-U.S. critique at Latin American food summit
Managua, Nicaragua - In a region beset by runaway food costs, the socialist government of Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela and its leftist allies appear to have found fertile ground to plant the seeds of revolutionary discourse.
At an emergency food-security summit held Wednesday in Managua, Nicaragua, 14 Latin American and Caribbean nations convened under the umbrella of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), the leftist trade bloc founded in 2004 by Cuba and Venezuela as an alternative to United States free-trade agreements.
The summit was supposed to focus on how the countries can prevent food shortages and unrest as the global food crisis hits the region, but it morphed into a series of complaints about US policy led by the summit’s host, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.
Mr. Ortega called the food crisis an “epic problem” – one that he blames on the “tyranny of global capitalism.” This echoes the words of his ideological comrade Mr. Chávez, who recently called the crisis “the greatest demonstration of the historic failure of the capitalist model.”
4 Comments so far...
Mac Says:
10 May 2008 at 12:12 pm.
I am sick and tired of the world blaming us for everything. Chavez is a lose cannon and he is going to continue to cause trouble. He is spreading his lies all over south and central America. I can’t believe he is blaming the food shortage on us. Actually the US has been foot dragging as far as environmentalism and the world has been blaming us for not signing some of the treaties and doing as much as Europe. The Europeans have bought into global warming more than we have. The biofuel fiasco is happening all over the world not just here. We didn’t cause the drought and natural disasters that have hurt the food supply.
avatar Says:
10 May 2008 at 12:28 pm.
I see Chavez as more of a narcisist and would-be Caesar than a real communist. Sure, he uses socialist rhetoric and causes to score points, but he’s really all about himself–changing his country’s flag and convincing people that he should have the power to enact laws by proclamation. Of course that probably makes him more dangerous–by now he probably also considers himself a military genius. Too bad his rule had to correspond with $120/barrel oil prices…
Benjamin Says:
10 May 2008 at 12:48 pm.
I think you are right, Avatar, about that making Chavez more dangerous. I think Castro was the same way and Putin too. They use communism as an excuse to be dictators and it is all about them. And I am sure Chavez thinks he is really hot stuff now with his oil so costly.
CindyL. Says:
10 May 2008 at 5:00 pm.
Joy, I totally agree with you. And even with all the problems we have as a country, we are so much better than any place else. I’m proud of America too.
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