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To: sylvester80 who wrote (186261)	5/7/2006 12:21:09 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Oh is that right? Then you must have been very happy about your ruthless U.S. puppet dictator Pinochet then, eh hypocrite? Pinochet, for all of the resulting brutality, was acting upon the tremendous loss of confidence in Allende's socialist government and his utter mishandling of the Chilean economy. Inflation was running rampant (the consumer price index in Chile rose 3,000% between 1973 and 1975) and this was directly affecting the poor as well. But once Pinochet took power, rather than finding a middle ground to economic policy that took into account both the needs of private market investment and creation of a social safety network that elevated the status of the poor, he adopted lazzez-faire economic policies that increased the gap between rich and poor, despite the fact that economic growth in Chile increased. en.wikipedia.org It was only in the 80's and 90's that Chile seemed to resolve many of those disparities between rich and poor (although the job is never job). Furthermore, Chile has privatized their social security system, something that is long overdue in the US. Of course, there is considerable opposition from people of your political ilk, who don't believe such massive amounts of financial power should be in the hands of private market profit motivated investment institutions who are tasked with returning their pensioner/shareholders, a decent return on their invested money. No..we all know you'd prefer that the government have control over all of that money.. take if from you as if it doesn't belong to you, put it in a "trust fund" that is nothing more than a vault full of T-Bill government debt IOUs, so that the government can take your money and spend it (not invest it), leaving your children to be taxed so you can collect that pension. Yeah... we know what you prefer... He only murdered countless thousands with his torture chambers, murder sprees and extermination tactics. But that doesn't seem to prevent you from being a big fan of Castro, now does it?? Why don't you take a look at this list of thousands of Cubans who are listed as having been killed by Castro's regime: netforcuba.org (Btw, don't ignore the fact that there are 22 pages of links to additional names to the upper right of the page.) Yep.. there's your boy.. one of the most brutal dictators in Latin history.. Fast friend of your other boy, Hugo Chavez. Who's a fast friend of Ahmadinejad and apparently every other repressive regime... Yet, all you can think about is Pinochet.. a man no longer in power, and under indictment from his own country.. When will Castro be indicted by a Cuban court?? You are so scared shitless about socialism taking hold in your back yard (even though Europe has done just fine with said socialism mind you) Yeah.. considering what practioners of your ideology have inflicted upon mankind, you bet I'm a bit frightened, and for good reason... The great purge of Russia, the Killing Fields of Cambodia.. the Cultural Revolution of China.. the famines and brutality of N. Korea... Yeah.. a WHOLE LOT OF REASONS TO BE FRIGHTENED!! Hawk