Tuesday, December 13, 2005
What I call Progress!
Chile is in the midst of an election where the two candidates, the socialist candidate and center-right candidate, agree that the free-market is a good thing that should not be wrecked. This is a country that elected a Castro-wannabe 30 years ago. General Pinochet overthrew the government and established an autocratic free-market regime. Inherently unstable this government collapsed in the 1980s. If you look at Cuba and at Chile which country would you rather live in: the one with a terrible revolution and socialist poverty or the one with a terrible revolution and an ever increasing standard of living and freedom?
