Well, is this good for Alaska?

Question

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003281424_webalaskachavez29.html

Answer 1

Maybe it is good for Alaska to reject the offer. Offers always has strings attached to them.

Answer 2

I thought Alaska produces oil. Oh well, I guess if they just put on an extra sweater it doesn't matter. the locations given are all pretty far south and likely don't get very cold. Interesting the decision was made by a nonprofit organization that likely is heavily government supported. I am sure there is more to the story. I also have to laugh to see that poor people again suffer so that a small official gets to make a statement. Also nice is that the minor official is holidaying in Arizona, obviously not one of the ones needing fuel oil for heat!

Answer 3

I get a real kick out of Hugo Chavez! He did the same thing for poor people on the east coast. HE IS making his point!
It is bad for Alaska!

Answer 4

I think it is fantastic! Nice to see honor and patriotism at work in the wonderful state of Alaska.

Answer 5

At least somebody understands that Hugo Chavez is a thug. Good for them.

Answer 6

His "gifts" come with strings attached. People in Venezuela know his game. He's a truly evil man.

Answer 7

Venezuela'a President, Hugo Chávez, describes Jesus as the world's first socialist.

After Hurricane Katrina battered the United States’ Gulf Coast in late 2005, the Chávez administration was the first foreign government to offer aid to the devastated regions.
The Bush administration opted to refuse this aid.



Chávez's domestic policy.....
[Referred to as the] "Bolivarian Missions", [they are] a series of political campaigns aimed at radically altering the economic and cultural landscape of Venezuela.

Bolivarian Missions:
...the construction of thousands of free medical clinics for the poor
...educational campaigns that have made more than one million adult Venezuelans literate
...food and housing subsidies
...granting of thousands of free land titles, reportedly to formerly landless poor and indigenous communities
Communal Council Law (2006 March):
...communities that organize themselves into a council can be given official state recognition and access to federal funds and loans for community projects


Chávez has a warm and public friendship with Cuban President Fidel Castro.


Several public figures have called for the assassination of Chávez, most notably US Conservative Christian televangelist Pat Robertson.


August 3, 2006, Chávez ordered the Venezuelan chargé d'affaires to Israel to return from Tel Aviv to Venezuela, protesting the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.
Chávez made statements comparing Israel to Hitler and their actions to the Holocaust, and blaming the United States.


20 September 2006
Chávez's speech to the United Nations General Assembly:
"And the devil came here yesterday. And it smells of sulfur still today, this table that I am now standing in front of."
(At this point Chavez made the sign of the cross, positioned his hands as if praying, and looked slowly up to the ceiling. He continued: )
"Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world....[he] came [to the General Assembly] to share his nostrums to try to preserve the current pattern of domination, exploitation and pillage of the peoples of the world....the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated."
(The speech was received with sustained applause in the Assembly.)


Democrat Nancy Pelosi, the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives and an ardent critic of President Bush, called Chávez an "everyday thug" and not the "modern day Simon Bolivar" that he "fancies himself to be". "Hugo Chavez abused the privilege that he had, speaking at the United Nations. He demeaned himself and he demeaned Venezuela."

United States Representative Charles Rangel (D) said:
"George Bush is the President of the United States and represents the entire country. Any demeaning public attack against him is viewed by Republicans and Democrats, and all Americans, as an attack on all of us".

Iowa Senator Tom Harkin (D) called Chávez's comments "incendiary."

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton called the "personal demonization" a "mistake" that only hurt Chávez and his country.


Subsidizing heating fuel for the poor in the U.S......
In 2005, President Chavez initiated a program to provide cheaper heating fuel for poor people in several areas of the United States.
During the winter of 2005, various officials in the Northeastern United States signed an agreement with Venezuela to provide discounted heating oil to low income families.
The program was expanded in September 2006 to include four of New York City's five boroughs, earmarking 25 million gallons of fuel for low-income New York residents this year at 40% off the wholesale market price.
That quantity provides sufficient fuel to heat 70,000 apartments, covering 200,000 New Yorkers, for the entire winter.
It has also been reported that Chavez is sending heating oil to poor, remote villages in Alaska.
Some have questioned the motives of this generosity.
Legislative leaders in Maine have asked that state's governor to refuse the subsidized oil.
New York Daily News criticized his offer by calling him an "oil pimp."


source: wikipedia