| The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) | | | | will meet in the United Nations Conference on the |
| seems to have a bit of pent up hostility towards the | | | | International Financial Crisis." |
| United States and it is amazing to listen to some of | | | | This is completely curious as Hugo Chavez and Evo |
| their socialist rhetoric, although after the last election in | | | | Morales, two of the ring leaders of this ALBA gang, |
| the US, perhaps we are getting a bit used to it by now. | | | | have been busy stealing foreign invested factories, |
| In ALBA's declaration of demands (a three page rant), | | | | mines, telecommunication companies, oil infrastructure, |
| the group, or rather Hugo Chavez and his communist | | | | water filtration plants and just about anything making |
| intellectuals said they questioned the G20's | | | | money that is or isn't bolted to the floor. Is this their idea |
| commitment to the IMF, and stated that they should | | | | of bringing financial stability to the world and getting |
| have been invited to participate, along with 192 | | | | credit flowing again? |
| countries, in the establishment of a new world order | | | | It is rather insane to take ALBA seriously, except for |
| instead? The further stated that there needs to be a; | | | | the fact that the President of the United States |
| "Full transformation of the IMF, the World Bank and the | | | | Barack Obama went to meet with them in person, |
| WTO, entities that have contributed to this global | | | | thus giving them credibility. ALBA's credit ratings has to |
| economic crisis with their neoliberal policies. The | | | | be just a little better than Cuba's, a nation which owes |
| solutions to the global economic crisis and the definition | | | | 37 Billion Dollars to EU nations in unpaid trade debts, a |
| of a new international financial scheme should be | | | | nation that wants to now open trade with the US? |
| adopted with the participation of the 192 countries that | | | | Only a fool would trade with any of these folks. |