Chaka’s the frontrunner in the next mayor’s race:
PHILADELPHIA Jan 27, 2006 — Low-income families in the Philadelphia area will receive discounted Venezuelan heating oil in the latest deal bringing fuel to U.S. communities that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez claims are neglected by Washington.
Citgo, the Houston subsidiary of the Venezuelan national oil company, will ship 5 million gallons of heating oil marked down by 40 percent for distribution to low-income families next month in a deal brokered by Democratic Rep. Chaka Fattah.
Similar shipments have been made to New York City, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and American Indian reservations in Maine. [...]
Fattah said receiving the Venezuelan oil wasn’t embarrassing and filled a real need. “This is not a political matter …we have the ability to keep families in the Philadelphia area warm,” he said.
What is wrong with these poor people that they would accept foreign assistance?
And from a Socialist?
George Washington and his troops shivered through one terrible winter at Valley Forge, PA and went on to create the greatest nation in the who-o-le universe, ever.
And these sunshine patriots are willing to accept Latino petroleum in place of red, white and blue petroleum at fair market prices?
No, this is simply un-American.
These people have a patriotic obligation to this great nation to die, in the cold. Quietly.
I didn’t think there was a Citgo station in Omaha but I just discovered there is. It’s only a mile away from my office (doh!) and it happens, today, they have the lowest gas prices in town. Seems to me like it makes sense to patronize businesses that give back to the communities by alleviating suffering.
Pat Robertson gets his gas at a Citgo station.