Freeper thread "Pinochet Saved Thousands of Lives"

[sufrommich]

"Wake up this morning and saw the news about the huge earthquake in Chile. One thing I noticed was despite the earthquake being a magnitude 8.8 the early reports have only under a hundred deaths. My guess is one of the major reasons the death toll will be orders of magnitude below Haiti is Chile is the wealthiest country outside Canada and the US in the Americas. Chile could afford to build more structurally sound buildings and infrastructure designed to withstand this earthquake. The main reason Chile can afford earthquake proof structures is the economic policies imposed, I think you can use that term literally, by General Pinochet and his Chicago Boys, advisors with degrees from U. Chicago and and disciples of Milton Friedman. Even after he stepped down from power, the left-of-center parties have dared not touch his program of economic liberalization. If Allende stayed in power and imposed his Marxist vision the death toll would most likely be in the thousands as his Marxist policies would of driven Chile into becoming another cesspit like Cuba, and North Korea. Thanks to Pinochet thousands of Chileans survived this quake."

Posted on Saturday, February 27, 2010 9:49:21 AM by C19fan


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2460504/posts

The monumental stupidity of these morons is breathtaking.

[dipsydoodle]

1. Yup

Complete bunch of dickheads.

[Zynx]

2. It's a severe stretch to say that Pinochet's economic policies were beneficial.

Severe stretch.

[tom_paine]

3. Authoritarian Followers do so love their murderous Fuehrers

Always have always will.

And never forget, they pretty much own and run this Empire.

They're coming...

[SOS]

4. Typical of the historically illiterate freepers

The Chillán earthquake of 1939 was the worst in Chile history.
Building codes were modified after that quake.
The President at the time was Pedro Aguirre Cerda, a member of the leftist Popular Front.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. And Hitler built great highways. nt

[madrchsod]

6. that`s why pino is was convicted of murder?

never underestimate the lack of knowledge of the free-republic members....

by the way freeperville,the democratic underground finally caught up with your Internet numbers without teabag rallies and stooges on the tv....

[Cleita]

7. What an idiot. Concepcion is a small city in an area that has less of

a population than the Northern Territories in Canada. It's in the part of the Atacama desert that is a little greener than the rest but not by much. So even though there will be a low death toll compared to the other earthquakes in other parts of the world, I'll bet that percentage wise the ratio of deaths to survival of the population will be very high if measured that way. No matter how great your building codes are, almost no structures can survive an earthquake of that magnitude near ground zero.

[malaise]

8. Tell them t o get back to us after rescue personnel

reach the epicentre. Stupid fucks. :puke: