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Argentina's Congress Names Duhalde as President (compete & detailed article posted)
Reuters via Yahoo ^
| 1/1/2002
| By Alistair Scrutton
Posted on 01/01/2002 8:22:58 PM PST by Jack Black
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Imagine the horror of living in a country with only leftist political parties. Read the article and you'll see leftists, radical leftists, populists, etc. No conservatives. Maybe we should lend them Rudy for a while?
It is strange how little coverage this is getting. A large country in our hemisphere is on the brink of total collapse and it barely makes the news. CNN has about a *5 second* news item on it. What is up? I guess that until the rioting gets larger the Marines in Kandahar makes for better video. But then why isn't the New York Times covering it very well? Well here is the complete Reuters story. What do you all think?
To: Jack Black
With a turn over rate like that I may just have to dust off my resume and give it a shot.
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posted on
01/01/2002 8:26:57 PM PST
by
tomakaze
To: tomakaze
Very strange. None of these men are patriots, particularly the elected coward who resigned because of riots. 27 dead. We have riots bigger than that when the Pistons win in Detroit. You can't have elected Presidents resigning because of this. Look what has happened since then ... jeeze, even the Catholic church has been forced to point out the obvious, that anarchy will follow if SOMEONE doesn't stick around and try. Latin America! So close but so far ...
To: Jack Black
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posted on
01/01/2002 8:30:55 PM PST
by
expose
To: Jack Black
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posted on
01/01/2002 8:32:58 PM PST
by
expose
To: tomakaze
I wonder if they are accepting applicants. I promise I will only embezzle 5% of government revenues. I will also cut taxes( to a 5% sales tax) and sell off the state owned sector. Gambling drugs and prostituition( I may get flamed for this) will all be legalized in certain red light districts where they can't affect property values. Military expenditure will be reduced by requiring all who can afford it to have an automatic weapon. Those are my 1st acts anyway.
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posted on
01/01/2002 8:57:04 PM PST
by
weikel
To: weikel
do you want live-lol
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posted on
01/01/2002 9:05:15 PM PST
by
expose
To: Jack Black
We say everybody
can be President!
They say everybody will be President!!
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posted on
01/01/2002 9:07:13 PM PST
by
Nitro
To: expose
Do I want to live well that leaves phase II( eliminating the Peronist commie opposition).
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posted on
01/01/2002 9:12:28 PM PST
by
weikel
To: expose
To: tomakaze
Do you think if I left now for Argentina, I could get elected when I arrive?
To: expose
Here is a better link that goes directly to the material mentioned:
FLAHERTY ON FED
To: newzjunkey
I wonder what the over/under is before he quits?
To: expose
I like the quote by Edison, it makes it so simple, if the govt can issue bonds to cover the amount borrowed, they can print the money and cut out the bank and the interest.
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posted on
01/01/2002 10:11:01 PM PST
by
jeremiah
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To: AdamWeisshaupt
You know, I think I could run for President of Argentina. I have friends down there that are going through a horrible time. I think if I moved down there, I could straighten all of their problems out.
All it takes is someone who knows what Communism is, does, and can do to a country of people who are willing to let them be oppressed, who then can change the minds of all of them, to become the people they want to be.
It's like a motivational speaker with a death ray. Make all the bad and evil people go away, permanently, and let the decent hard working people stay if they want. Frankly I've never been to Argentina, but I think with a lot of work it could be just like America. Seriously it could. If the right people were able to run it as a republic instead of a democracy. Democracy is one of the pillars of communism. Democracy if moderated works. Democracy run by commie pinkos does not.
I hope that Tom Daschle, and the pinko party members decide to go to Argentina, and leave us Americans alone. We've had enough of the totalitarian nonsense. Looks like Argentina needs leaders who crave power.
To: AdamWeisshaupt
Globalism, is nothing. The problem is the desire of the people for wealth redistribution... which is what got them the socialists in the first place. Socialists always screw up the economy.
The damage they do depends on how they use government policy, rather than the market, to redistribute wealth.
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posted on
01/02/2002 1:53:19 AM PST
by
piasa
To: expose
expose - member since November 20th, 2001
Not surprising that he is so familiar with the leftist propaganda sites he linked to.
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posted on
01/02/2002 2:17:11 AM PST
by
anymouse
To: newzjunkey
Argentina's Congress Names Duhalde as President At first glance I thought they were talking about Tom "Little Napoleon" Daschle. We can wish.
Do you think if I left now for Argentina, I could get elected when I arrive?
If you like they will swear you in before you land. However, you don't get body guards until the paper work is completed.
By then...
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posted on
01/02/2002 2:30:38 AM PST
by
chainsaw
To: tomakaze
I did an economic and political analysis for Argentina last year saying that there was a reasonable chance of default on their debt. No surprise.
Essentially, they are a country controlled by labor unions (the Peronists). They have enormous burdens of social security and other subsidy programs. They do nothing to make Argentina competitive in the international arena, such as limiting union power. Hence, they are destined to fail.
Some poster mentioned that bankers are the problem. Not at all. They were willing to lend Argentina money, knowing that they may not get it back - hence, the interest rate is higher than what a AAA consumer is used to. The problem for Argentina, like the old Soviet Union, is where the money goes from the loans. A large percentage is skimmed towards political officials and Peronist party leaders. The middle class is folding because the wealthy loot the country and promise the poor and elderly massive entitlements. Hey, it sounds like the Democratic Party in the US!
Argentina is a classic example of the failure of socialism. Unlike Marx' view of utopian society, modern socialism is the destruction of a country by destroying the middle class. The poor get poorer (although they don't think so at first), the rich get richer (as law and order degenerate and you can't prosecute anyone - not even the President for lying under oath), and the middle class vanishes.
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