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The Northerner (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Oct-09-10 03:17 PMOriginal messageVenezuela introduces Cuba-like food card Presented by President Hugo Chávez as an instrument to make shopping for groceries easier, the ``Good Life Card'' is making various segments of the population wary because they see it as a furtive attempt to introduce a rationing card similar to the one in Cuba.The measure could easily become a mechanism to control the population, according to civil society groups.``We see that in short-term this could become a rationing card probably similar to the one used in Cuba,'' Roberto León Parilli, president of the National Association of Users and Consumers, told El Nuevo Herald. ``It would use more advanced technological means , but when they tell you where to buy and what the limits of what you can buy are, they are conditioning your purchases.''Chávez said on Tuesday that the card could be used to buy groceries at the government chain of markets and supplies.``I have called it a Good Life Card so far,'' Chávez said in a brief statement made on the government television channel. ``It's a card for you to purchase what you are going to take and they keep deducting. It's to buy what you need, not to promote communism, but to buy what just what you need.''Former director of Venezuela's Central Bank, Domingo Maza Zavala, said this could become a rationing card that would limit your purchases in light of the country's recurring problems with supplies.Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/04/1807508/venezuela...
justinaforjustice (493 posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Oct-09-10 08:18 PMResponse to Reply #36. You Are Right (ur...correct)! Edited on Sat Oct-09-10 08:20 PM by justinaforjusticeI'm an American who has been living in Venezuela for the last four years (and enjoying their free health care immensely). This is simply a credit card which is issued by Venezuelan banks to enable folks to buy bigger quantifies of things they want to buy from government stores than they might immediately have the cash in hand to pay for. No one is required to apply for the card, which actually has fairly strict application requirements, so in no way does it resemble a rationing card, no more than your American Express or Master card/Visa does.The right wing in Venezuela reacts to everything that Chavez does, no matter how innocuous, with great bull-horn roars of righteous indignation. It is rather similar to how the U.S. right-wing reacts to anything said or done by Obama, except that President Chavez really is a socialist and his government really is putting the needs of the people first, not profits.The Chavez government provides free medical, dental and optical to all its citizens, as well as free public education to the doctoral level, and government stores and outlet where food, basic necessities and even household appliances are sold at very low prices. There are also programs for low cost loans to help folks buy homes or apartments and to set up cooperatives and small businesses. We desperately need similar programs in the U.S.
You can keep your socialism there, instead how about we send all the DUmmies to join you in that paradise?
