Attention, Democrats--This Is How You Do It!

The Big Oil power that be in the Republicans have almost taken over the Democrats as well, but in Venezuela, it looks like there's some real progressives still! We learn from CNN.com:

President Hugo Chavez's government took over Venezuela's last remaining privately run oil fields Tuesday, intensifying a decisive struggle with Big Oil over one of the world's most lucrative deposits.

Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez declared that the oil fields had reverted to state control just after midnight. Television footage showed workers in hard hats raising the flags of Venezuela and the national oil company at a refinery and four drilling fields in the oil-rich Orinoco River basin. Chavez planned a more elaborate celebration Tuesday afternoon with red-clad oil workers, soldiers and a fly over by Russian-made fighter jets.

The companies ceding control include BP Plc (Charts), ConocoPhillips (Charts, Fortune 500), Exxon Mobil (Charts, Fortune 500)., Chevron (Charts, Fortune 500), France's Total SA (Charts) and Norway's Statoil ASA (Charts).

I guess there are governments out there that care about their people, after all, not just shoveling heaps of profit to rich oil executives and other corporate masters. In Venezuela, Hugo Chavez uses power for the people and stands up to the Big Oil interests. It's time to give back to the community, here too, and maybe if we had a Chavez style candidate in the Democrats there'd be more hope for it. Hillary and Obama are great but they are still a little weak in the face of big oil.

This is a victory for the people of Venezuela! No more greed over need over there. Good for them! But shouldn't we support free enterprise? Sure, great idea. Just look how well that works out now with Bush and all the tax money and American lives going to a war for oil that doesn't even give us cheaper oil.