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The Tea Party started out with noble purposes, but soon got co-opted by the religious right, and then absorbed into the Republican Party. Their core values are honorable, but too many of those who call themselves "Tea Partiers" mix them with right wing evangelical ideas. They don't mix, and it gives the media an easy target to marginalize.
They could not get their candidates elected without co mingling with the religious right. Thus neutering their value of personal freedom at its core.
They became nothing more than the two parties they despise.
They should form a third party....it would not win any national elections but at least they would not be hypocrites compromising their principals.
So we have a socialist hooker in the political forum now, griping about people who want to pay less taxes on their LEGALLY earned income. This place gets richer by the day
I suppose you are going to emphatically deny you are a hypocrite, and that you declare every single penny of your income to Obama and his IRS minions, right? You just tell them it's for your time, right?
Just curious, how does the IRS handle condom expenses nowadays, I might need to start deducting those myself?
Deb, you're asking the wrong people. Why don't you go ask a squirrel or mouse to describe a cat or dog to you. You're not going to hear about how the loyal dog is trying to protect your house or the cat is trying to control vermin. You're going to hear untrue horror stories from vermin like EVA, Munchie, Flighter, WTF, and WhatZup.
Deb, you're asking the wrong people. Why don't you go ask a squirrel or mouse to describe a cat or dog to you. You're not going to hear about how the loyal dog is trying to protect your house or the cat is trying to control vermin. You're going to hear untrue horror stories from vermin like EVA, Munchie, Flighter, WTF, and WhatZup.
Most members like Judy Dense have not a clue or they would have given you a answer. However are very good at deflection.
Ask the folks in Chile...especially the ones rounded up in the soccer stadium.
If a libtard fagboy like WTF goes to the doctor, he will receive treatment regardless of his politics.
Prior to the 1973 coup, Allende had completely wrecked the Chilean economy. Annual inflation was running at 500%, GDP was plummeting (along with agricultural, industrial and mining output), government spending was out of control, the Central Bank had exhausted its foreign exchange reserves, the local currency (the escudo) was being devalued daily, and both the fiscal and external accounts were drowning in red ink. In short, the patient was in terminal condition. The Chilean Central Bank reached out to Friedman's "Chicago boys" for advice on how to stabilize, resuscitate, reform and nurse the economy back to health. Their policy recommendations were technical and apolitical. They ultimately ignited the Chilean miracle, transforming it into the most successful economy in Latin America.
If a libtard fagboy like WTF goes to the doctor, he will receive treatment regardless of his politics.
Prior to the 1973 coup, Allende had completely wrecked the Chilean economy. Annual inflation was running at 500%, GDP was plummeting (along with agricultural, industrial and mining output), government spending was out of control, the Central Bank had exhausted its foreign exchange reserves, the local currency (the escudo) was being devalued daily, and both the fiscal and external accounts were drowning in red ink. In short, the patient was in terminal condition. The Chilean Central Bank reached out to Friedman's "Chicago boys" for advice on how to stabilize, resuscitate, reform and nurse the economy back to health. Their policy recommendations were technical and apolitical. They ultimately ignited the Chilean miracle, transforming it into the most successful economy in Latin America.
Rude? Yes, like everyone else on this board. Plagiaristic? Never. Unlike you, I put any sentence or paragraph that isn't my own in quotes and identify the source. If you want to challenge me, feel free but don't accuse me of plagiarizing.
The Chilean Central Bank reached out to Friedman's "Chicago boys" for advice on how to stabilize, resuscitate, reform and nurse the economy back to health. Their policy recommendations were technical and apolitical. They ultimately ignited the Chilean miracle, transforming it into the most successful economy in Latin America.
. What has become of Chile? Now, twenty-odd years on, we can see the long term results of "neoliberal" economics: From the beginning of the reforms of the Chicago Boys in 1973 through 1986, there was no economic growth. Real mean salaries, adjusted for inflation, have declined by 10% since 1986 and by 18% from what they were during the Allende years. Median salaries have fared even worse, declining by 30% over the same period, signalling a torrent of wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich. When Allende was in power, less than 20% of the country lived in absolute poverty; by 1990 40% did. That figure has remained largely constant since. A third of the nation now survives on less than $30 per week. Some miracle indeed.
Enthusiastic supporters of the Pinochet reforms like to point out that since 1986, there has been a 7 percent annual growth rate; what they fail to mention is that this occurred only after 1986, after privatization of the banks was reversed, and collective bargaining rights and minimum wage laws were restored; after jobs-creation programs were instituted and privatization of the principal source of foreign exchange was reversed. And they fail to point out that all of that additional wealth has gone into the pockets of the few; the middle class and poor have seen none of it. The much-ballyhooed privatized Social Security system, which is being held up as a model for the United States to follow, is seriously being considered for re-nationalization, since the public system that runs along side it is producing vastly better results (almost twice the benefits of the private systems). When it was privatized, those who opted to remain in the public system are sure glad now that they did.
Yet the remaining "neoliberal" reforms continue to bite. The reforms are the reason why nearly all of that much ballyhooed annual growth has gone straight into corporate profits that benefit the rich, and less than ever into the pockets of the poor and working classes - note the declining median income as mentioned above. Milton Friedman and his Chicago Boys are quite well aware of this, but simply don't care, because social justice is not their concern. All that matters to them is the increase in Gross Domestic Product - evidence of economic growth. The fact that it the increase is going entirely into the pockets of a tiny handful of the rich, suits him just fine. Remember, in his view the wealthy are wealthy because they deserve to be - and the same for the poor. As he often said, fairness was not an issue for him - the theory is apparently more important than the results of the theory - in other words, it was a religion, not a science. Consider that even in the United States, which is hardly a paragon of equitable wealth distribution, 60% of economic output goes into wages, and 40% into corporate profits. Yet in Chile, those numbers are exactly reversed. Chile now rates as the seventh worst nation in the world for equality of wealth distribution - tied with Kenya and Zimbabwe. Nearly all of the wealth being generated by the 7% growth rate is going straight into the pockets of a tiny number of the elite - and the only construction boom in the country in the last fifteen years has been going on in the very richest suburbs of Santiago.
