Uh, a few factual errors. The existing Constitution was post-Pinochet, but preserved the neo-liberal economic system. The Communist Party is not banned, and has been on and off supportive of Concertacion government programs. It's held seats in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate in every post-Pinochet government (fun factoid... the CP had a gay leader for a time, and led the fight to recognize LGBTQ equality in that country).
One point of interest to US political junkies... the movement for reform started with student and parent protests over the huge debts caused by student loans (and more recently, last year's protests over a rise in public transit rates in Santiago).
"Shock Doctrine" -- Naomi KleinMilton Friedman did not save Chile | Naomi Klein | Opinion | The Guardianwww.theguardian.com › chile-earthquakeMar 3, 2010 · According to Stephens, the radical free-market policies prescribed to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet by Milton Friedman and his infamous "Chicago Boys" are the reason Chile is a ...How Milton Friedman Saved Chile | Hoover Institutionwww.hoover.org › research › how-milto...Jul 2, 2010 · Milton Friedman died more than three years ago, but his spirit was surely hovering protectively over ... the proto-Chavista government of Salvador Allende was overthrown by General Augusto Pinochet
"Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America" -- Nancy MacLeanJames M. Buchanan: The Architect of the Radical Right - The Atlanticwww.theatlantic.com › archive › 2017/07Aug 15, 2017 · James M. Buchanan emphasized the coercive effect of government programs. ... (MacLean's) book includes familiar villains—principally the Koch brothers—and devotes...
Milton Friedman getting the Nobel Prize for Economics was as grotesque as if it had been awarded to Ayn Rand.That lying myth about Chile's economy, the one designed by the white-turtle-neck-sweatered "Chicago Boys" trained by Friedman, being a glorious example of unfettered laissez-faire and a huge success, is just that, a lying myth. The main engine of Chile's economy, the copper industry, stayed firmly under government control the whole time.Another thing that saved it was the land reforms Allende had brought in, before the CIA overthrew him and got him killed.Finally, in desperation, to prevent his country's pension system going down like the Titanic, that red-handed, black-gutted murderer Pinochet was forced to nationalize banks on a scale the dreadful socialist Allende never even approached doing.
I've said it before and I'll say it again; these idiots who support that kind of government and "leader" seem to think that THEY will somehow be immune from the kind of things dictators do to their people; it'll just happen to "those" people...(If the U.S. goes awry, at least I can comfort myself with the cries of "But I was a Trump supporter! MAGA? Lock her up? Why are you putting that bag over my hmurfumph!" as the proctors do their loyalty sweeps...)
What happened to Oxy?
Uh, a few factual errors. The existing Constitution was post-Pinochet, but preserved the neo-liberal economic system. The Communist Party is not banned, and has been on and off supportive of Concertacion government programs. It's held seats in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate in every post-Pinochet government (fun factoid... the CP had a gay leader for a time, and led the fight to recognize LGBTQ equality in that country).
One point of interest to US political junkies... the movement for reform started with student and parent protests over the huge debts caused by student loans (and more recently, last year's protests over a rise in public transit rates in Santiago).
You don't have copper in your plumbing or electrical equipment?
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White, because "polar" bear.
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And Pompeo said that we were no longer going to worry about "American values", only "American interests".
"Shock Doctrine" -- Naomi KleinMilton Friedman did not save Chile | Naomi Klein | Opinion | The Guardianwww.theguardian.com › chile-earthquakeMar 3, 2010 · According to Stephens, the radical free-market policies prescribed to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet by Milton Friedman and his infamous "Chicago Boys" are the reason Chile is a ...How Milton Friedman Saved Chile | Hoover Institutionwww.hoover.org › research › how-milto...Jul 2, 2010 · Milton Friedman died more than three years ago, but his spirit was surely hovering protectively over ... the proto-Chavista government of Salvador Allende was overthrown by General Augusto Pinochet
"Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America" -- Nancy MacLeanJames M. Buchanan: The Architect of the Radical Right - The Atlanticwww.theatlantic.com › archive › 2017/07Aug 15, 2017 · James M. Buchanan emphasized the coercive effect of government programs. ... (MacLean's) book includes familiar villains—principally the Koch brothers—and devotes...
Fortunately, James M. Buchanan and Milton Friedman no longer are.
They put copies of Atlas Shrugged on their porches, but the bears were uninterested in reading them.
They'd wear "Hitler Did Nothing Wrong" t-shirts if fewer people knew what Hitler did.
hey now! . . . that joke was told to me by a PhD chemist!
[ who also happens to be my son! ]
Milton Friedman getting the Nobel Prize for Economics was as grotesque as if it had been awarded to Ayn Rand.That lying myth about Chile's economy, the one designed by the white-turtle-neck-sweatered "Chicago Boys" trained by Friedman, being a glorious example of unfettered laissez-faire and a huge success, is just that, a lying myth. The main engine of Chile's economy, the copper industry, stayed firmly under government control the whole time.Another thing that saved it was the land reforms Allende had brought in, before the CIA overthrew him and got him killed.Finally, in desperation, to prevent his country's pension system going down like the Titanic, that red-handed, black-gutted murderer Pinochet was forced to nationalize banks on a scale the dreadful socialist Allende never even approached doing.
And Henry Kissinger is, inexplicably, still alive.
Sometimes a cunning person will include "long life" among the conditions for selling their soul to Satan.
I've said it before and I'll say it again; these idiots who support that kind of government and "leader" seem to think that THEY will somehow be immune from the kind of things dictators do to their people; it'll just happen to "those" people...(If the U.S. goes awry, at least I can comfort myself with the cries of "But I was a Trump supporter! MAGA? Lock her up? Why are you putting that bag over my hmurfumph!" as the proctors do their loyalty sweeps...)
Ellas Danzan Solas (They Dance Alone) - Sting - Nothing Like The Sun
i was at chicago in the 80's (undergrad and grad).
pretty sure we had some lecture from uncle milt.
mostly though i remember my arthurian romances class (it could count as english OR history).