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01-31-2007, 08:06 AM
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| This is scary but could it happen here...? My Way News - Chavez to Get Powers to Remake Venezuela Chavez to Get Powers to Remake Venezuela Jan 31, 7:45 AM (ET) By FABIOLA SANCHEZ (AP) Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez greets supporters as he rides in an open car towards the Congress... Full Image Google sponsored links America's Secret Oil Find - Learn How Colorado is Sitting on More Oil Than the Middle East www.DailyWealth.com/Oil_Repo CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez is set to assume unbridled powers to remake Venezuelan society as the National Assembly prepares to grant him authority to enact sweeping measures by presidential decree. The assembly, which is completely controlled by Chavez supporters, is scheduled to meet Wednesday in a Caracas plaza to approve a so-called "enabling law" that will give Chavez special powers for 18 months to transform 11 broadly defined areas, including the economy, energy and defense. Chavez, who is beginning a fresh six-year term, says the legislation will be the start of a new era of "maximum revolution" during which he will consolidate Venezuela's transformation into a socialist society. His critics, however, are calling it a radical lurch toward authoritarianism by a leader with unchecked power. The former paratroop commander has already said he will use the law to decree nationalizations of Venezuela's largest telecommunications company and the electricity sector, slap new taxes on the rich and impose greater state control over the oil and natural gas industries.Isn't this something that some people in the U.S. ask for??? A final draft of the law shows Chavez will also be allowed to dictate unspecified measures to transform state institutions; reform banking, tax, insurance and financial regulations; decide on security and defense matters such as gun regulations and military organization; and "adapt" legislation to ensure "the equal distribution of wealth" as part of a new "social and economic model." Is this what democrats want to do??? Chavez also plans to reorganize regional territories and carry out reforms aimed at bringing "power to the people" through thousands of newly formed Communal Councils, in which Venezuelans will have a say on spending an increasing flow of state money on neighborhood projects from public housing to road repaving. Lawmakers were scheduled to formally approve the law Wednesday in an outdoor session in Caracas' Plaza Bolivar, next to the National Assembly. Chavez's supporters deny the law constitutes an abuse of power and argue radical steps are necessary to accelerate the creation of a more egalitarian society. National Assembly President Cilia Flores said the special powers will enable Chavez to enact new laws that "will benefit the people, those who were excluded their whole lives. They are laws for inclusion and social justice."This is using the rich vs poor scheme... Others say the enabling law is dangerously concentrating power in the hands of single man. Historian Ines Quintero said that with the new powers, Chavez will achieve a level of "hegemony" that is unprecedented in Venezuela's nearly five decades of democratic history. She said the effects will be "exponential" because Chavez will wield "extraordinary powers" in a context where state institutions are weakening and the division of powers is not being respected. Chavez has requested special powers twice before. In 1999, shortly after he was first elected, he was only able to push through two new taxes and a revision of the income tax law after facing fierce opposition in congress. In 2001, by invoking an "enabling law" for the second time, he decreed 49 laws including controversial agrarian reform measures and a law that sharply raised taxes on foreign oil companies operating in Venezuela. This time, the law will give Chavez a free hand to bring under state control some oil and natural gas projects that are still run by private companies - the latest in a series of nationalist energy policies in Venezuela, a top oil supplier to the United States and home to South America's largest gas reserves. Chavez has said oil companies upgrading heavy oil in the Orinoco River basin - British Petroleum PLC, Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), Chevron Corp. (CVX), ConocoPhillips (COP) Co., Total SA (TOT) and Statoil ASA (STO) - must submit to state-controlled joint ventures, as companies have already done elsewhere in the country. The law gives Chavez the authority to intervene and "regulate" the transition to joint ventures if companies do not adapt to the new framework within an unspecified "peremptory period." Forgive these people for they know not what they do!!!
__________________ LIBERALISM The haunting fear someone, somewhere can help themselves. " I think he (Obama) can be ready, but right now I don't think he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.." Senator Biden     |
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01-31-2007, 08:24 AM
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| AOO......man you need some new material. You're sounding like a broken record......same thing, every day, just a different title! 
__________________ KANSAN BY BIRTH - JAYHAWK BY THE GRACE OF GOD! "When we destroy nature, we diminish ourselves and impoverish our children" Robert Kennedy Jr. "Patriotism is supporting your Country all of the time, and your Government when they deserve it" Mark Twain |
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01-31-2007, 08:59 AM
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__________________ LIBERALISM The haunting fear someone, somewhere can help themselves. " I think he (Obama) can be ready, but right now I don't think he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.." Senator Biden |
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01-31-2007, 09:11 AM
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Golly, if this is it Army......I'm sorry. Carry on 
__________________ KANSAN BY BIRTH - JAYHAWK BY THE GRACE OF GOD! "When we destroy nature, we diminish ourselves and impoverish our children" Robert Kennedy Jr. "Patriotism is supporting your Country all of the time, and your Government when they deserve it" Mark Twain |
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01-31-2007, 09:18 AM
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 Once the baby comes I won't have much time for this i'm sure....I hear baby's take a lot of time...lol
__________________ LIBERALISM The haunting fear someone, somewhere can help themselves. " I think he (Obama) can be ready, but right now I don't think he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.." Senator Biden |
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01-31-2007, 09:20 AM
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Now THAT's something to talk about.........that baby will just blow you away....it changes you as a person for sure. It's what life is all about. Do you know, are you having a boy or girl?
__________________ KANSAN BY BIRTH - JAYHAWK BY THE GRACE OF GOD! "When we destroy nature, we diminish ourselves and impoverish our children" Robert Kennedy Jr. "Patriotism is supporting your Country all of the time, and your Government when they deserve it" Mark Twain |
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01-31-2007, 10:38 AM
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| He's having a little Republican "Toy Soldier"!   |
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01-31-2007, 10:49 AM
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If you were the middle-class like most of the rest of us, you would be tired of supporting the whole country on your back, because the middle-class pay more in taxes and support the country more than any other class. I say it's time the middle class gets a tax break and the rich start to pay their fair share to support the country. Do some research on the big tax cut that Bush gave. They spin it to make it look like it was a huge tax cut. In reality, the rich and big business got a huge tax cut, while the middle-class got their $100-$500 check in the mail and that was it.
__________________ Politicians are like diapers, they both need changed occasionally for the same reason. Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant" is like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist" The hard work of one will do more than the prayer of millions. |
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01-31-2007, 11:28 AM
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That's just great! How wonderful......... 
__________________ KANSAN BY BIRTH - JAYHAWK BY THE GRACE OF GOD! "When we destroy nature, we diminish ourselves and impoverish our children" Robert Kennedy Jr. "Patriotism is supporting your Country all of the time, and your Government when they deserve it" Mark Twain |
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01-31-2007, 11:51 AM
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__________________  ΜOΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, and politicians. All three need supervision. —DICK ARMEY Click here to view Democrat’s comments on Iraq and WMD’s |
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