Wednesday, December 15th 2004
That Monster!
I was walking through campus on my way to a final. Going over historical facts in my mind, I inadvertently picked up a flier from a random leftist (normally I’m in ignore mode). I look at the derogatory, if amateur, illustration on the front then flip it over to reveal the headline: “Bush to adopt General Pinochet’s Social Security plan” (I’m going from my memory on this). I laughed then quickly threw it in the trash (I actually recycled it if that makes a difference).
I wonder what they would say about “Castro’s Education plan,” or “Stalin’s Five Year Plan,” or “Canada’s Health Care plan…” They obviously are trying to link Bush with a dictator (and there’s no question that Pinochet was one, irregardless of how bad the alternatives were). But if John Kerry or someone similar were to implement the things I listed above, there would be no mention of the terrible dictatorships that they originated from (I’m only joking about Canada, I think…)
And actually, it wasn’t Pinochet’s plan anyway. It was José Piñera who initiated it, with influences from Milton Friedman and the rest of the Chicago School economists. With any luck, it’ll be implemented in America soon, and President Bush will finally have a conservative accomplishment.
