To Each According to His Needs
By IzzyIn a journalistic coup, a Venezuelan political leader was railing against capitalism when a reporter pointedly asked him about his luxury brand preferences:
Venezuelan Interior Minister Pedro Carreno was momentarily at a loss for words when a journalist interrupted his speech and asked if it was not contradictory to criticize capitalism while wearing Gucci shoes and a tie made by Parisian luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton.
“I don’t, uh … I … of course,” stammered Carreno on Tuesday before regaining his composure. “It’s not contradictory because I would like Venezuela to produce all this so I could buy stuff produced here instead of 95 percent of what we consume being imported.”
Could this be a new kind of supply-side economics? Gorbachev, at least, waited to flaunt his Louis Vuitton until he left office.
The video, in Spanish, can be found here.
December 15th, 2007 at 11:52 am
Don’t you just love it when politicians stop trying to hide their corruption and just flaunt it.
December 17th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others…