Chile vs Haiti: Proof That Obama is Wrong
An initial report of 214 deaths marked the 8.8 Chilean quake as well as massive destruction, and yet the shaking did not result in the total collapse of infrastructure, government and basic necessities that Haiti experienced.
Why?
Could it be that the regime of Augusto Pinochet saved thousands of lives?
The Chilean government has not asked for outside help (unlike Haiti). Why?
Pinochet gets a lot of criticism among leftists, liberals and the managed media. Why?
Pinochet killed a few thousand communists extra-judicially to avoid the mass murder of several hundreds of thousands (or more) that has proceeded from every communist revolution worldwide. And, in the process, he reformed Chile’s economy from the typical Latin American “great man” national socialism of such varied leaders as Juan Peron, Hugo Chavez, and Fidel Castro to a market-style, limited-government regime, with privatization of social security and consistent economic growth. In the process, he voluntarily ended his military rule through a peaceful election in 1989, unlike heroes of the left such as Castro.
Jose Pinera, Chile’s former labor and social security minister, today explains why the US is now headed towards the bankruptcy all too typical of South America unless it follows Chile’s lead, one based on the Austrian School/American-style free market principles and the insights of the Chicago School of Economics.
Despite the earthquake being a magnitude 8.8, the early reports state a death toll around 200. One of the major reasons the death toll will be orders of magnitude below Haiti is Chile is the wealthiest country outside Canada and the US in the Americas. Chile could afford to build more structurally sound buildings and infrastructure designed to withstand this earthquake. The main reason Chile can afford earthquake-proof structures is the economic policies imposed, I think you can use that term literally, by General Pinochet and his Chicago Boys, advisers with degrees from U. Chicago and disciples of Milton Friedman. Even after he stepped down from power, the left-of-center parties have not dared to touch his program of economic liberalization. If Allende stayed in power and imposed his Marxist vision, the death toll would most likely be in the thousands as his Marxist policies would of driven Chile into becoming another cesspit like Cuba and North Korea. Thanks to Pinochet thousands of Chileans survived this quake.
Pinochet won’t get any credit for it anywhere but here, but it's true .
Interesting term, The Chicago Boys, as the proponents of liberal (classical) free market economics, versus the Chicago Thugs we have now in Washington.
There are very few places in the New World where Americans would want to live, maybe Canada, Australia and New Zealand. One of the only Latin-American nations that enjoys a standard of living remotely comparable to our own is Chile. Ask yourself 'why is that?"
The common thread is a rejection of the Obamaesque socialist model of identity politics and government control of healthcare and the economy.The Chilean people have accomplished miracles with their economy that has created an infrastructure far superior to the Third World hellholes that embrace Marxist/Socialist dogma.
Remember that Leftist darling Salvador Allende had his death squads circulating in Chile, made up of mostly outsiders from Cuba and East Germany. The death toll due to them was much higher than attributed to Pinochet. Pinochet was also requested to overthrow Allende by the courts and a coalition in the House of Deputies, since Allende’s party only had 35 percent of the seats in the House of Deputies. That is something you will NEVER hear from the lefty media and academia.
A joke from that era is illustrative:
--Q) How many Castro supporters were executed in Chile after the downfall of Allende'?
--A) not nearly enough--
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