Posted on 12/13/2013 4:29:20 PM PST by InsightSur
This Sunday, Chileans will head to the polls for the final round of voting in this year’s presidential elections. Constituents choosing to participate will vote for the second time in less than a month, in a runoff election between socialist candidate Michelle Bachelet and the recent minister of labor and social security, Evelyn Matthei.
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That list may be getting shorter. Chile's population has grew rapidly about 20 years ago and now there are many young men and young women that are unemployed. There's just no work for them. The unemployment rate for under 25s is 15% while unemployment for 25 and over is just 4.6%.
Large numbers of poor young adults is a formula for socialist/communist revolution.
If Chile falls? LOL. The current President, elected 4 years ago and barred from another consecutive term, is the first non-leftist President they’ve had since Pinochet.
South American politics SUUUUUUCK. Most of the countries are dominated by the left.
In other words, the centrist plans to borrow from future generations, increasing distributions, creating an underfunded pension system. She would turn the pension system into a welfare program, just as LBJ did to Social Security in the U.S.
The leftist candidate will increase the minimum wage so that there will be fewer jobs for the already unemployed youth. She will legalize abortion to pander to even more immoral self-indulgence.
Bankrupt the government so that we can live for today, live for ourselves, and damn the next generation, which we may not even permit to be born.
And the left is expected to win handily in this country, supposedly the cream of the Latin American crop.
It is a sick culture, Latin America, from which our politicians seem dead set on admitting twenty or thirty new Americans.
Chile’s on my WTSHTF list of places to go.
General Pinochet is one of my political role models, along with Ronald Reagan and Emperor Palpatine.
Just got back from chile. Area around the lake at puerto varas very nice.
Santiago not so much. Although Peruvian sea food restaurant la mar outstanding.
Abundance of agriculture in chile. Could move there and not miss a beat.
We have friends in Santiago. They are also worried about the election.
Thank you for the info/update!
“Low Information” voters exist everywhere. The “Gov’t” will provide all their needs. “Until they run out of other peoples money”
I remembered, that’s why I pinged you.
Some places are better off without democracy. Including South America and the Star Wars Galaxy, (Jar Jar Binks got elected to represent Jamaica in the Galactic Senate, fail).
Thank you - good memory!
“Some places are better off without democracy. Including South America and the Star Wars Galaxy, (Jar Jar Binks got elected to represent Jamaica in the Galactic Senate, fail).”
That’s one of the most profound things I’ve ever read! So frigging true!!!
Chile stock market up 2% today on the first day after the socialist was elected.
go figure.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=1d&s=ECH&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=&ql=1&c=^GSPC
Yuck. It was quite a landslide.
Reanimate Pinchoet’s corpse and put it in charge. Zombie Pinochet, Zombie Reagan, Zombie Thatcher, Zombie Pope John Paul II. Zombieocracy. We have plenty of empty brains to keep them fed.
“Zombieocracy. We have plenty of empty brains to keep them fed.”
Love it!!!
Chile is about to start on the same downward spiral of Venezuela, Argentina and others.
You’re right...:(
It’s been on it since Pinchoet left office. It took brief detour 4 years ago and now is back on, the morons.
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