Somebody please tell me this doesn’t sound like what Governor Walker of Wisconsin has done
Pinochet’s Economic Policies and actions resemble the Republican-Teahadist’s quest to privatize, roll back social programs and you could substitute tariff barriers for lower taxes, imperialist for shitty paying jobs by corporations that get tax breaks and you would have present day Republican governance almost as a mirror image.
“Almost immediately after getting into power, Augusto Pinochet subjected Chile to merciless privatization and social program rollbacks. Tariff barriers were kicked down and trade unions were banned. International finance capital was once again invited into Chile, opening the door even wider for greater exploitation of Chilean employees. Resources were shared out to imperialist governments that consented with Pinochet’s Draconian free market economics. The “Chicago Boys,” a group of young Chilean economists trained at the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman, who Pinochet employed in his government, openly praised this restructuring of the Chilean economy and authored a 700-page book about how the junta should go about the privatization.
The country of Chile is upheld today by the media as a “free market miracle” in Latin America. Typically, they never go into detail about exactly what sectors of society were brought wealth, or how this wealth was built on torture, mass murder and the bodies of thousands of Chileans. It owes its legacy to the Pinochet group, who sold the state-controlled industries, including the copper industry, at criminally low prices to financial oligarchs and corporate sponsors. Education was privatized, making educational centers atrociously expensive and regulating most workers to second-and-third-class schools. In 2006, seven hundred thousand students protested for the de-privatization of the educational system, calling themselves the “Penguin Revolution” after their school uniforms. These policies dramatically increased inequality, unemployment, inflation and poverty as well as ruining human services. In 1982, Chile suffered a monetary crisis because of these policies, which are still upheld (even by the “Socialists”) in Chile’s bourgeois government. During these years, unemployment was at 30% and 55% of the population was below the poverty line.”
It seems to me that whenever an ultra-right wing movement gets a hold of the reins of power the first thing they go after is the middle class, then the labor unions, followed by education and all safety nets. It all fits in very well with the plan to redistribute the wealth where 1% end up owning everything and the rest has to eat shit and like it.
Those same economists trained under the infamous Milton Friedman who doesn’t know the difference between economics and ergonomics are guiding the Republican-Teahadist agenda in economic policies that have been disastrous for the country and have left the majority of the American people in ruinous situations.
That fucking claim of theirs that the wealthy are the “JOB CREATORS” is so perverse, so far from the truth and it is not difficult to refute since we have seen almost a decade of the Bush tax cuts and instead of jobs being created we have seen the loss of more than 5 million jobs in that period of time.
SOURCES: (A communist blog) http://theredphoenixapl.org/category/international/cuba/
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