Delusional Euphoria

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Opinion: 
Ollanta Humala's win is a promise to Peru's poor
From Living in Peru
by  Mark Weisbrot

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This is a regional organization that includes all countries except the United States and Canada, and which – no matter what anyone says for diplomatic purposes – is intended to displace the Organization of American States.
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First, it is another example of the voters going against the vast majority of the country's rich and elite, including the most influential of that group – the major media. Leftists may criticize Humala for some of the promises that he made (such as no nationalizations) in order to get the support of some political actors, but it remains clear that he was not the candidate of Peru's rich and powerful.
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Bolivia lowered the retirement age from 65 to 58, and greatly expanded the public pension system, nationalized its hydrocarbons industry and increased social spending. Ecuador expanded social spending, especially on healthcare. Venezuela provided free healthcare to its citizens and tripled real social spending per capita, greatly expanding education, including free university education. Brazil had a 60% real increase in the minimum wage (during President Lula's eight years) and some modest increases in anti-poverty spending. Peru's last two governments did not do these kinds of things.
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OPINION:  

Mr. Mark Weisbrot, major media is decidedly left-wing everywhere, as survey after survey has demonstrated. What world does this man live in? Keiko’s policies are moderate and only appear right-wing when compared to the radical nationalistic polices of Ollanta Humala. Thus any media support of Keiko would have to be seen as a desire for the preservation of free speech and an appeal for sanity and common sense to prevail.

Where does Mark Weisbrot get his country statistics? I want to see the details that Weisbrot does not supply. Kind of like these statistics I supplied on Brazil. Where are your sources Mark Weisbrot?

Mr. Mark Weisbrot, Regardless of your unfounded in reality loony zealousness for anything that espouses radical change, maybe we should wait a couple years before we start celebrating the downfall of Perú’s rich and elite. Let’s see how it all turns out. Maybe we needed them? In the meantime you Mr. Mark Weisbrot should try to find an example in history when mob rule (direct popular vote) has produced lasting prosperity. Populists uprising rarely end well. You probably know that. It was bad enough in the USA when a popular uprising, defeated the safeguard of the electoral voting system, and quasi-socialist Barack Obama was elected president. “Change you can believe in.” Now the country is wallowing in a rapidly rising and historic sea of debt, facing bankruptcy from Federal to State governments while the president continues to spend borrowed billions. Debt that was created by the very party that supports Obama. Yes I know they say he inherited these enormous problems, but the political truth is that, decades of unaccountable, government administered, liberal/progressive Democrat social equality programs, supported by Senator Obama and others, are the cause of the USA’s enormous problems. Consider this: A record number of Americans are on food stamps and other forms of government assistance under President Barack Obama’s progressive leadership. Real unemployment and under-employment has held constant around 20.3%.  College tuitions have skyrocketed. All while the number of government limousines has doubled.

When you interrupt prosperity you displace and atrophy the systems that allowed it to happen. Peru’s prosperity has created a false sense of invulnerability. See you in a couple of years. Maybe! If you’re still around spewing this nonsense.

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