As the press all over the world talks about the political success of the current administration, and mentions the “flourishing”, prosperous Argentina, a clear minority which I’m part of sees things differently. It makes you wonder and ask yourself a few other things as well. Who writes all these praises? What kind of data do they use to make such positive statements? How can a country be booming economically, yet keeps having shantytowns grow at an accelerating rate, poverty, misery and decadence never backing down one inch, and the 3rd greatest inflation in the planet as the icing on the cake? After reading some of the emails people sent me on the “success” of Argentina, I wonder if its just innocent stupidity, lack of professionalism or if there’s more to it than meets the eye and there are other intentions behind it.
Yep, this is the stage that we, and the States are at:
“But the most brilliant part of this evil plan was the children, …. Political brainwashing thanks to the mandatory citizen formation classes, combined with the iron grip on the media that ensured the famous in the showbiz which the uneducated masses follow play along…”
Once again.
Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina
Things are pretty well $%#@*d when you have to hold up Sad Sack as a success story.
http://yanquimike.blogspot.com/ .. another view that seems to agree with the above post, “Surviving in Argentina” site…
critical thinking is so elusive now days!!
There is a comment at the linked blog about American teachers having to do “dispositions”. I had never heard of such a requirement. This is what I found about it:
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2006/02/01/21edschool.h25.html
The education industry is even worse than I thought. Much worse.
The worst part is that the second place finisher had only 17% of the vote…and was an outright socialist. Argentina will become South America’s Zimbabwe/Venezuela sans oil.
How we forget history of Argentina. From the 19th to 21st century how spending on the poor gets votes while bankrupting the country till their military has had to steps in take over.
Governments around the world found this works by promising the poor the riches of the elite to get voted into power and to stay in power. As we have seen with so many political parties going for the ethnic vote with spending of more money at folk fests pavilions.
While we’re remembering history, let’s not forget that Argentina defaulted on its national debt in 2002. Let’s also not forget that after inviting foreign banks into the country to provide much-needed capital, Argentina robbed them through a bogus exchange rate imposed on dollar-peso conversion.
While Argentina may seem relatively stable and growing strongly now, for most of the past 50 years it’s functioned as a kleptocracy. That rat-hole of Communist propaganda the Centre for Policy Alternatives pretends that it was the foreign banks caused all this. They were in fact the life jacket which Argentina subsequently sh@t upon.
No, Yesterdaysman, the military junta was no better. They were just as vile a bunch of thieves as the Peronists; they just added mass murder to their repertoire, along with losing a war with Britain. One could surely trust a military to run a war right, but not those clowns.
Frightening. I wish it weren’t accurate.
Articles like this make one question whether the concept of one person one vote needs to be re-examined. Sounds like Argentina is now a tyranny of the majority and having a prolifically breeding poor underclass that feels entitled to their entitlements results in a state of universal poverty aside from the statists who dispense favors on those who go along with them.
This is the route that BO is trying to take the US as it seems he’d rather be in charge of a poverty stricken country as long as he remained in charge rather than irrelevant in a rich technologically advanced country.
Probably the most significant part of the post was a quote in the comments section by Sallust, 2000 years ago:
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Given the antiquity of the quote, it suggests that most people have a genetic predisposition to be slaves. The US appeared to be an exception to this tendency but the marxist education system and regulatory tyranny is slowly making more and more people even in the US forgetting about the benefits of individualism.
Realizing how right Barry Goldwater was now in his statement:
Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice