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To: achilles2000
Has anyone bothered to say “Thank you, General Pinochet?” I didn’t think so...

Actually, thanks to the late Milton Friedman and the Chicago Boys are in order!

6 posted on 04/30/2011 7:23:44 AM PDT by Ozone34 ("There are only two philosophies: Thomism and bullshitism!" -Leon Bloy)
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To: Ozone34

Correct. But General Pinochet deserves thanks, too. He saved his country from communism - a really virulent, merciless, brutal strain of it, even viler than Hugo Chavez’s. He also made free markets possible. Thanks to General Pinochet are in order.

As Lady Thatcher and the great Ronald Reagan understood perfectly well!


7 posted on 04/30/2011 7:32:25 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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To: Ozone34

Without Pinochet, any policy views of the Chicago School would have been a dead letter. Good ideas have always been around, but there is almost no one with the understanding, courage, and power to implement them.


12 posted on 04/30/2011 7:52:31 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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