..."Cristina Fernandez, the current president, has forced people to hold the rapidly depreciating Argentine peso and restricted people from buying foreign currency or gold. She has jailed economists and central bankers who donââ¬â¢t do her bidding. She has told bold-faced lies about economic data. She has hired thugs to roam the streets and beat up political opposition groups. She has imposed price controls at grocery stores, seized private pension funds, nationalized foreign companiesââ¬â¢ assets, taken control of the local media. She has managed to accumulate tens of millions of dollars in wealth despite having spent a lifetime in politics. She has launched a nationwide biometric tracking program, and police will have mobile finger print scanners to grab peopleââ¬â¢s prints at routine traffic stops. According to the propaganda videos, the programââ¬â¢s slogan isââ¬â ââ¬ÅThe more we know about each other, the safer weââ¬â¢ll be.ââ¬Â So far the national database has accumulated 8 million fingerprints. Thatââ¬â¢s roughly 20% of the population. Theyââ¬â¢re grabbing them early now. If you have a child in Argentina, the newborn babyââ¬â¢s biometric data will be automatically recorded and stored in the government database. This is playing out in textbook fashion. The worse the economy gets, the more desperate the government becomesââ¬Â¦ and the more they try to control everything. The only thing left, it seems, is the reproductive behavior of Argentine citizens. And so, starting last week, the government began issuing hundreds of thousands of doses of the wildly popular drug. This canââ¬â¢t possibly work out well. Given how soundly governments everywhere tend to botch things up, I shudder to think at the alien side effects that will result from this. The whole thing reminds me of Stalinââ¬â¢s approach to economic management..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sounds a lot like where the US is heading.
Christina is about as liberal as one can get. She's sending her country into the shitter faster than Obama is sending ours. Both are about as brain dead as a politician can get. But, if she has a willing daughter, I might be persuaded to go down there for a Viagra weekend.