I’ll spare you the policy wonk fun from Heritage, but check out this quote from some post-baseball season “light reading” (fully story here):
The country’s current left-wing government, led first by Peronist Party leader Néstor Kirchner (president from 2003 to 2007) and now by his wife, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, has used revenues from commodities exports to finance the same sort of populist policies that have kept General Juan Peron and his political progeny in power in Argentina more or less continuously since the 1940s with a simple but economically destructive formula: wasteful welfare state handouts, a swollen bureaucracy to redistribute wealth, and powerful closed-shop trade unions protected from foreign competition; all generously lubricated with corruption.
See any parallels to today’s political discussion in the United States?
[...] on the fruits of socialism here and [...]
re argentina: they have been in a financial crisis since Mennem sold off and privatized most of their country. Welfare programs have not been increased under either Kirchener. Though they have retained their universal healthcare and public universities, which existed long before even Mennem.
you’re about as well-informed and balanced as Fox. keep up the scattershot work.