Hugo Chavez has done it again. He’s moving forward with his socialistic plans to make Venezuela a better place for the poor and downtrodden. He’s dealt with health care, housing and literacy. Now he’s set his eyes on yet another vestige of the evil capitalist remains: the time zone.

It seems that when he’s not forcibly feeding the poor or taking private property away from landowners (for the sake of the people, of course), he has enough time to worry about Venezuela’s time zone. Or rather, maybe he doesn’t have enough time, which is why he wants to change the current time zone by a HALF hour. He must realize that only a crazy man would change things by an hour.

Why is he spending public funds to fuck up our time zone differences? Science and Technology Minister Hector Navarro explains.

[Navarro] said the measure sought “a more fair distribution of the sunrise,” which would particularly help poor children who wake up before dawn to go to school.

It’s for the children. It’s always for the children…

“Very rigorous scientific studies have determined that … the metabolic activity of living beings is synchronized with the sun’s light,” [Navarro] said.

The minister added that the government “is planning to announce additional measures to make more effective use of time.”

Just a quick tip to Hector, in case he’s reading this: maybe the problems that you and your boss have been having with job effectiveness has less to do with a HALF hour time zone difference and more to do with your complete incompetence as politicians, nay, human beings.

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Source:
Country to change time zone by 30 minutes Reuters

Posted on Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 at 3:06 pm in Chavez, Venezuela. Follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback from your own site.