This Examiner.com article picks up on something that this previous post noted over a year ago — the economic absurdity of Joe “Che” Kennedy’s deal with Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez under which Kennedy’s non-profit Citizens Oil Corp buys discounted oil from Venequela to provide low-income American customers with a 40 percent discount on a one-time delivery of up to 200 gallons of heating oil. Kennedy rationalizes this program despite the fact that the poorest of Citizen’s customers are relatively wealthy in comparison to the 40% of Venezuelans who subsist on about $2 a day. The Examiner concludes its story with the following observation:

Curiously, despite his wealth, Kennedy receives a $400,000 annual salary [from Citizens, which is a non-profit]. Instead of embracing his uncle’s [the late John F. Kennedy] courageous anti-communist legacy, he has become just another smarmy celebrity who yammers on about having compassion for the poor from the doorways of multimillion-dollar mansions and private jets, all the while accepting oil stolen by a dictator. Lenin had a name for Western liberals who did this kind of thing ñ “useful idiots.”