The fact that this system was brought in as part of a right-wing fascist takeover after the American-sponsored assassination of the democratically elected President and then propped up for a couple decades by those same forces doesn't even enter into the story at all...
Yes, let's model our "retirement" plan on Pinochet, shall we? He sure as fuck knew how to retire people. Really, Jerry? Really? No god damn shame? Or just that historically stupid? Judah On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Excerpt: > > May Day socialists' paean to class warfare evokes memories of Soviet > tanks in Red Square and leftist radicals rioting. But Chile celebrates the > actual empowerment of workers. > > May 1 marks the 30 years since Chile became the first nation to privatize > its social security system. By turning workers into investors, the move > solved an entitlement crisis much like the one America faces today. > > "I like symbols, so I chose May Day as the birth date of Chile's 'ownership > society' that allowed every worker to become a small capitalist," wrote Jose > Pinera, former secretary of labor and social security and the architect of > this pension revolution. He is now a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in > Washington, D.C. > > What he designed has succeeded beyond all expectations. Yet Congress remains > reluctant to adopt anything like it, despite efforts by Presidents Bill > Clinton and George W. Bush to partially privatize an American system. > > Read more here: > Link<http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/570629/201104291742/Chiles-Private-Accounts-Turn-30.htm> > > J > > - > > Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to > unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission > to it. - Alexander Herzen > > When you ain't nothing else, you are an Artist. It's the one thing you can > claim to be and nobody can't prove you ain't. - Will Rogers > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:337325 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
