Ricardo Lagos has made great progress. As a young man wrote, almost verbatim (I quote from memory, as the book I have it elsewhere): "The only solution is that all means of production into state hands." It was his recipe for Chile. After seventy years during which communism applied this recipe, and a hundred million deaths caused by the desire to apply, of course, to Ricardo Lagos has changed, and now offers a portfolio of seven proposals for the future, mostly wrong, of course , but revealing of the author realized that the Berlin Wall had fallen,
1) Changing the electoral system, in circumstances where it is precisely this which has become more stable and civilized Chilean democracy. Seems to want to return to the 36 parties that were once chest representation in parliament under the proportional system that anarchy led to the September 11, 1973.
And another change proposed is inserted in the mentality denial of personal freedoms: Automatic registration and compulsory voting. Always socialist! Nothing is more repugnant to the freedom of personal choice.
2) Call a revolution to strengthen public education, when it succeeds in Chile is the worst performing private and the public gets. What should be done is that all information is private and dismantle the state that guzzling monster called Ministry of Education, decreed the freedom of creating programs and schools and give the money to families to choose the school they prefer. With what the state currently spends on education to poor people could send their children to the best private schools.
3) Call to build a "society of security" as the AUGE plan. The only saving grace of the rise (and that is owed to him) is partly privatized health care and it ensures that if the state treats one can claim the attention of the private sector and the state pays. That's fine, and it is well, all government spending on health should be, instead of the Ministry, the families to choose where they take their health insurance and how clinical addressed. Silver is, what to do is take it off the officials and give it to people.
4) This proposal is very Chilean Lakes: "We have to ...":" It is critical to improve connectivity, Infrastructure and financial services. " The problem is how. He does not say, but I'm going to suggest, as he did with the infrastructure concession, namely privatization.
5) proposed immigration policies to reverse the population decline. I agree. The problem is that the center-left governments have led to the current situation, undermining the basis of growth population, which is the family. I agree with Lagos to establish economic incentives to the number of children, as proposed, but he does not realize that this can be done within a framework of stable marriage, the opposite of what the coalition and bequeathed him, for today two thirds of Chileans born out of wedlock. That is, the extent of Lagos implies doing the opposite of what it did Lagos.
6) Of course, wants to raise taxes. Socialists always want people to give them more money. This has built an immensely rich and inefficient state, which takes nearly a quarter of the country's income. Lagos wants to increase that proportion. What to do is decrease, first, delivering directly to the people many of the resources now administers state and second, the privatization of dozens of large state-controlled companies, including most of the country, and administered poorly. As the State "to the Lakes" is the researcher who Transantiago, which replaced a private system that generated surplus of 63 billion dollars a year and people moved to where I wanted to go, the other loses that amount each month does not transfer people where to go and is already in a hole a half billion dollars, or train to the south, he made another Forado more than one billion dollars and did not reach the south.
7) Energy renewable. In this I agree with Lagos, but he should answer why, when presented in the MOP (sad memory) the proposal of the Blue Energy Canada to bridge the Chacao channel with tidal turbines which could provide half Energy Central Interconnected System with the strength of ocean currents, not just one answer to that proposal (and so far it has done) and instead he did was put in place a "white elephant", a bridge project would cost another billion dollars that did not generate a single kilowatt. A megamonumento in his own tribute. Luckily Michelle and I did head Bitrán minister. Lagos has improved
time. Marxist-Leninist revolutionary became merely the President's center-a country with little growth but even loved by some employers. The trouble is that socialism is a chronic disease which never healed, and his seven proposals are steeped in it. It would be good for Chile to fall on the disease, because with the current president's leftist arrests have more than enough to worry about.
