Posted on 02/16/2014 4:50:38 PM PST by Kartographer
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Stash yer cash...electronic money evaporates when the SHTF!
Argentina has bountiful resources and a politically simplistic population.
Amazing how American media has been silent.
And I can testify that even on their worst day they remain simplistic.
The Economist ignores the question of misleadership...or should we call it malleadership...or just plain popularism. Is the US on the road to Peronism?
No question the US has a near majority of low information voters, but they are just pervasively stupid and vapid in Argentina.
“A persistent refusal to confront reality”
Sounds like our problem to the hilt. It cannot be allowed to happen, as it almost invariably shows Leftist ideas to be terrible. So a Big Lie like “we didn’t do enough Stimulus” is fed to the sheeple, and after a time, many believe it.
This won’t end well . . .
Well at least they can fill the soccer stadiums with enthusiastic fans .... abet starving, jobless, etc. but fans none the less.
“a bankrupted country”...
So just how is Soros involved there?
The real danger is not following the ideology of Marx, but of Keynes.
5.56mm
This is of course anecdotal but there is an amazing difference between the way the average citizen of Chile conducts him/her self and the way the average citizen of Argentina conducts him/her self. The former more often than not understands the basic tenets and merits of capitalism. Do your own experiment.
The Progressives are calling it ‘Democratic Economic Populism’.
Sadly it’s what they asked for.
I think that since this decline has been ongoing for 10+ years (since Argentina defaulted on its debt), the American media figures the average voter doesn’t have the attention span for any explanation of the situation.
“The Argentines remain perhaps the best-looking people on the planet.”
I will read the whole piece later, but I had to comment on this, which seems to me profoundly false. I’ve only known a couple of people from Argentine, and they were just OK looking. Are there even any famous actors or actresses from there?
I find many types of people attractive, but for Latin Americans nobody beats the Cubans for looks, imho.
Ay-Zee-Ans
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