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Election Of Socialist Is Bad Omen For Free-Market Chile
Investor's Business Daily ^
| 16 Dec 2013
| Editorial
Posted on 12/17/2013 8:03:25 PM PST by IBD editorial writer
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To: IBD editorial writer
I know that what I am about to say will draw some eyebrows higher.. But I have been around a very long time and watched this country in thick and as now, very thin..
I have also watched, as an interested observer, the world go through many swings of ideological shifts, always emerging to the left of the previous positions..
The only incidents that drew the world to reflect on the course they drift is WAR, WORLD WAR to be precise.. The World needs a WAR, a major war that will shake the foundation of governments to their cores and draw all people to put things back into perspective..
A World financial crisis might do the same thing.. We need to allow the Financial Community to Rumble and Shake out all the shit, that we have covered for, over the last 40 odd years.. If we emerge, and that is an IF, we will be better for it, perhaps for another generation or two..
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posted on
12/17/2013 9:50:55 PM PST
by
carlo3b
(“Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad,” Henry Kissinger)
To: IBD editorial writer
You’d think with basket case Argentina next door they would know better.
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posted on
12/17/2013 9:59:14 PM PST
by
aquila48
To: IBD editorial writer; GeronL; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; ...
It surprises that that with all the socialists (and “Christian Democrats” allied with the socialist) that have mostly ruled Chile since Pinochet left (all except for the outgoing President who is from the right), that the country is in such good shape.
Clearly Chilean socialists are are cooler and less spicy than the South American standard. I don’t think we’re dealing with Chavez style COMMUNUSTS in this case. Still not good though.
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posted on
12/17/2013 10:00:07 PM PST
by
Impy
(RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
To: IBD editorial writer
People will vote for their own executioners if they promise to give them a cookie first.
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posted on
12/17/2013 10:16:52 PM PST
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: IBD editorial writer
She ran on the typical socialist lie, the 'rich' are going to pay for the 'free education'.
Ofcourse, it won't be long before the middle class find out that they are who the socialists consider to be the 'rich', but by then it is too late.
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posted on
12/17/2013 10:31:40 PM PST
by
fortheDeclaration
(Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
It seems each generation has to learn the same lessons.
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posted on
12/17/2013 10:32:32 PM PST
by
fortheDeclaration
(Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
To: carlo3b
Are you out of your mind?
Yea, lets have a major world war, that will help!
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posted on
12/17/2013 10:33:46 PM PST
by
fortheDeclaration
(Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
To: fortheDeclaration
“There never was a good war or a bad peace” - Benjamin efin Franklin
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posted on
12/17/2013 11:03:21 PM PST
by
dr_lew
To: Tzimisce
Humanity is sinking back into the slavery from whence it came.
The past quarter-millenium was the aberration.
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posted on
12/17/2013 11:33:46 PM PST
by
oblomov
To: IBD editorial writer
did South America really need another Venezuela or Argentina?
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posted on
12/17/2013 11:44:13 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: Impy
She aligned herself with the commies this time around, she is going to be really bad
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posted on
12/17/2013 11:44:58 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: IBD editorial writer
RE: “Chile has long been a global model of free-market economics.”
I have always been skeptical about that claim.
Chile's GDP per capita is the best in Latin America.
However, internationally, Chile is ranked below many eastern European countries like Greece and Poland.
And compared to true free market countries like Hong Kong and Singapore, Chile's GDP is almost 70% lower.
To: IBD editorial writer
Election Of Socialist Is Bad Omen For Free-Market Chile It sure isn't working out very well here in the USA.
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posted on
12/18/2013 4:02:17 AM PST
by
Iron Munro
(Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
To: Telepathic Intruder
I predict that the Chilean people will be the most surprised people on the planet when their determined return to socialism lowers their standard of living to the typical of Latin American. Like their U.S. cohorts, they will never understand.
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posted on
12/18/2013 4:17:56 AM PST
by
Theodore R.
(The grand pooh-bahs are flirting with Christie, but it's Jebbie's turn!" to LOSE!)
To: oblomov
The American people hate the “slavery” of 1859, but will gladly set up their own form for 2013 and never understand.
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posted on
12/18/2013 4:19:19 AM PST
by
Theodore R.
(The grand pooh-bahs are flirting with Christie, but it's Jebbie's turn!" to LOSE!)
To: IBD editorial writer
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posted on
12/18/2013 4:20:22 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: carlo3b
We moved farther left during and after the Great Depression and moved even more left after WWII. Neither war or economic crisis will stop the left from wrapping their tentacles around the institutions that made our country great. It isn't how people vote every two or four years that will determine our future but it is how people live each and every day. As long as the left controls our institutions of education we will continue to falter.
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posted on
12/18/2013 4:42:18 AM PST
by
Russ
(Repeal the 17th amendment)
To: IBD editorial writer
"What drives a country to reject success?"Santa Claus. Santa Claus will win over hard work most every time.
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posted on
12/18/2013 5:58:35 AM PST
by
norwaypinesavage
(Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
To: Theodore R.
Agree. Read your profile and like the same commentators you do.
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posted on
12/18/2013 7:05:11 AM PST
by
oblomov
To: headstamp 2
People will vote for their own executioners if they promise to give them a cookie first. I think you've just come up with the ultimate tag line!
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posted on
12/18/2013 9:32:22 AM PST
by
The Duke
("Forgiveness is between them and God, it's my job to arrange the meeting.")
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