Maybe they plan to kill us with kindness
Much has been made in recent days over CITGO’s program to provide lower-cost heating oil to poor residents of various U.S. communities. But the following quote really helped me understand the controversy:
“Unfortunately, many of President Chavez’s public statements concerning the United States government suggest that his purportedly altruistic motives may camouflage his true motivations,” the two lawmakers said in a Feb. 15 letter to Citgo Pres. and Chief Executive Felix M. Rodriguez. … (source)
You mean to suggest they may be giving away millions of dollars in heating oil for the same reasons we give so much aid to certain unfriendly nations? Those evil bastards—they stole our playbook!
Only in our great land could you reasonably push the notion that it’s wrong to help the poor. And I do mean only here.
I quite frankly don’t care what (if any) ulterior motives are behind this program; unless Mr. Chavez has found a way to inject brainwashing fumes into the heating oil that’s being donated, I don’t see how his motives come within a mile of being relevant.
Note: for more on this, Fred Clark gives a little more depth, and his comments are more lively than mine, so…
