Venezuela gallops left with new flag
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday raised a new flag with one extra star and its white horse galloping left instead of right — changes that he said pay tribute to independence hero Simon Bolivar but that critics called frivolous and wasteful.
Well, if you can’t give your subjects economic and political stability, a decent living wage, or even hope for the future, I suppose bread and circuses will work just as well, eh? Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who, contrary to what y’all might think, really DOES give leftists a bad name has decided the time has come to give Venezuela a new flag. Apparently feeling that he’s solved all of the truly pressing problems facing his basket case of a country, Chavez is now embarking on a crusade to upgrade Venezuela’s symbolism.
Jeez, you’d think Chavez would be more concerned with Venezuela’s rampant inflation, impossibly high crime rate, and the reality that the country’s best and brightest minds are fleeing Venezuela in record numbers. Given the oil reserves that Venezuela sits astride, the potential for major economic reform is literally just a few drill bits away. Venezuela has what it needs to solve it’s own problems. What it lacks is a leader with a functional grip on reality and the resolve to make the hard choices and do the right thing. While Chavez is content to tweak George W. Bush, he more closely resembles Nero fiddling while Rome burns around him. Sadly, Chavez makes Our Glorious Leader look positively competent and brilliant by comparison- no mean feat. What a maroon….
