Fed Up With The Usa; They Chose Chile

[sergio]

fascinating story:

http://www.dailypaul.com/295334/we-left-the-us-we-chose-chile

 

[camberiu]

The best part was this one:

"It's not Argentina. Chile has the benefit, if blessing, of having Argentina as its next-door neighbor, so they are reminded on a daily basis of exactly what NOT to do - whether it be monetary policy, economic policy, export tariffs, resentment toward the private sector, press intimidation, civil rights, allowing unions to hogtie the country, import duties, subsidies, and foreign entanglements to distract from problems at home (Falkland Is.)."

 

[wild_horses]

I realize that this article was utter BS when I read this:

"and thanks to the Argentine influence, they know how to serve a rare steak, done perfectly."

 

[camberiu]

I realize that this article was utter BS when I read this:

"and thanks to the Argentine influence, they know how to serve a rare steak, done perfectly."

Depending on where he is from in the USA, I can see how he might feel that way.

 

[ghost]

Depending on where he is from in the USA, I can see how he might feel that way.

He is from Texas. And this statement is pure BS. Ever worse, Argies don't serve a steak rare. So he doubly full of crap.

 

[PhilipDT]

fascinating story:

http://www.dailypaul...-we-chose-chile

As much as I like the quote camberiu pulled out of that... the rest is just standard issue wingnut bullshit.

 

[MDZ]

For the requirements that strange person has - Chile seems to be a good fit.

 

[steveinbsas]

It shouldn't be too long before the forum's One Line Wonder concludes that the author is a Potterarian, especially after he reads this:

"Chile has at least three Libertarian expatriate communities - Galt's Gulch Chile, Simon Black's Sovereign Valley, and Freedom Orchard. Two of these are a short drive from Valparaiso. People may not know the L word here, but they live it. They are the product of their own actions, because they don't have a money-printing government to take care of them. Families stick together and take care of their own. Chileans believe that if you don't work, you don't eat, so you don't have a lazy leech like culture that has metastasized in the U.S. I can be a libertarian here. "

PS: Before I got to this paragraph, I thought to myself that the article is a thinly veiled pitch for a place like Galt's Gulch Chile: http://galtsgulchchile.com/

 

[Joe]

It shouldn't be too long before the forum's One Line Wonder concludes that the author is a Potterarian, especially after he reads this:

"Chile has at least three Libertarian expatriate communities - Galt's Gulch Chile, Simon Black's Sovereign Valley, and Freedom Orchard. Two of these are a short drive from Valparaiso. People may not know the L word here, but they live it. They are the product of their own actions, because they don't have a money-printing government to take care of them. Families stick together and take care of their own. Chileans believe that if you don't work, you don't eat, so you don't have a lazy leech like culture that has metastasized in the U.S. I can be a libertarian here. "

PS: Before I got to this paragraph, I thought to myself that the article is a thinly veiled pitch for a place like Galt's Gulch Chile: http://galtsgulchchile.com/

Ann hated Libertarians and she is more aptly described as one of the first Neo-Cons.

 

[steveinbsas]

Ann Ann hated Libertarians and she is more aptly described as one of the first Neo-Cons.

Some, but certainly not all of today's Libertarians love Ayn Rand (who died in 1982), but they are not the same Libertarians that she loathed in the 1970's.

Here is what she had to say when she equated Libertarians with anarchists :

All kinds of people today call themselves “libertarians,” especially something calling itself the New Right, which consists of hippies, except that they’re anarchists instead of collectivists. But of course, anarchists are collectivists. Capitalism is the one system that requires absolute objective law, yet they want to combine capitalism and anarchism. That is worse than anything the New Left has proposed. It’s a mockery of philosophy and ideology. They sling slogans and try to ride on two bandwagons. They want to be hippies, but don’t want to preach collectivism, because those jobs are already taken. But anarchism is a logical outgrowth of the anti-intellectual side of collectivism. I could deal with a Marxist with a greater chance of reaching some kind of understanding, and with much greater respect. The anarchist is the scum of the intellectual world of the left, which has given them up. So the right picks up another leftist discard. That’s the Libertarian movement.

http://fellowshipoft...d-libertarians/


As far as her being a "Neo-Con" I suggest you actually read her writings, but you could also start with this:

"Ayn Rand would have made a very poor Neoconservative.

The Neoconservatives manipulate us with lies. They lie to us to get us to support what we would never support if we knew the truth. This is abundantly clear by now. What is interesting intellectually is that many of the Neocons are students of a political philosopher, one Leo Strauss, who explicitly endorsed such deceit."

http://www.ariwatch....TheNobleLie.htm