Venezuela President Hugo Chavez has apparently set his sights on his country's golf courses, making them, along with just about everything else, potential objects of government expropriation. Why? (Need you ask?) Chavez: "That’s an injustice -- that someone should have the luxury of having I don’t know how many hectares to play golf and drink whiskey and, next door, there’s misery and children dying when there are landslides.”
Now that's the kind of "stick-it-too-the-rich" populism with which we're familiar. For those who insist, nevertheless, on pinning that label-as-epithet on the Tea Party Uprising, I can say with a very high degree of confidence that if their candidates win tomorrow, America's links will still remain safe havens of escape from the long arm of the law.
On the contrary, if Hugo's comment came from the mouth of an American politician instead, of which party would you guess he was a member?
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A friend of mine joked that golf helped found America: The Puritans were disgusted by Charles I's devotion to the sport--now vindicated by its being played on the Sabbath. What Venezuela's refounders might do is another matter. A redemption for Tiger Woods?
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Tiger Woods, all of this happens on the same day he loses his Number One ranking for the first time in a long time.
ReplyDeleteLet's hope the best the Dems can do tomorrow is a "gentlemen's ten".