Why must we always be meddling into someone else’s business? Would we stand for it? Of course we wouldn’t! Sticking our nose in where it doesn’t belong, to many, is the prime reason we’re losing troops daily in the Mideast. Having a government that prides itself on secret wheeling and dealing isn’t doing us any favors.

Chavez to U.S.: ‘Go to hell, gringos!’

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – President Hugo Chavez returned to his weekly radio and TV broadcast Sunday, extolling the ideals of socialist thinker Karl Marx and telling U.S. officials to “Go to hell!” for what he called unacceptable meddling in Venezuela’s affairs.

Chavez defended his government’s effort to establish a socialist model and rejected U.S. concerns over a measure to grant him broad lawmaking powers, saying: “Go to hell, gringos! Go home!”

The National Assembly, controlled by the president’s political allies, is expected to give final approval this week to what it calls the “enabling law,” which would grant Chavez authority to pass a series of laws by decree during an 18-month period.
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Criticizing excessive consumption and self-indulgence, Chavez also announced plans to raise domestic gasoline prices and approve a new tax on luxury goods such as private yachts, second homes and extravagant automobiles.

“The one who will pay is the one who fills up the BMW,” Chavez said of the gasoline tax.
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In Venezuela — one of the world’s leading petroleum exporters — gasoline costs as little as 12 cents a gallon thanks to government subsidies.

Source: CNN.com

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