Lessons from Chile

As noted before, I've been watching those Chilean miners coming up from underground. Had to watch it on CNN overnight, because Fox apparently doesn't have news people on staff 24/7. Anyway, CNN did a bit about reading emails they were receiving from viewers all over the world.

They read three of these emails that came from people in Red China. Red China does a lot of mining. I don't know what kind of safety standards they have or observe, but since the government in China takes the attitude that they have population to throw away, apparently their mining safety standards aren't very high or taken very seriously. Seems to be numerous "mine disasters" that few people outside of China ever hear about, and that even fewer people in the Chinese government really care about.

One of the emails read on CNN noted that the Chilean rescue program was very "humane." That kind of struck me. Very humane? The whole purpose of the rescue program is to save the miners from a rather horrible and lonely death. And nothing like this has ever been done before. And it seems that in China, mounting such a massive and expensive effort to save 33 lives would never happen. You see, China takes the "macro" view of economics, the same "macro" view behind socialized medicine. That is, you weigh the dollar cost of a life against your chances of retaining power, and your retaining power wins almost every time. Let the miners die if it would be expensive to spare them.

The two other emails from China echoed similar sentiments but in other ways. Sorry I didn't try to write them down. Taken all together, these three emails sounded like lonely, longing voices. Like, "Gee, Chile really cares about people. Wish we had something like that."

But, you know, the Comrade and the US NIC has set up Red China as kind of a brilliant economic model for the USA. Apparently we're all supposed to strive now to reduce ourselves to pawns on the chessboard of the "Greater Good," and let the Comrade and the merry marxists exploit and dispose of us as they see fit. That's the macro-economic view. Abandon all individuality and humanity, ye who enter here.

I like Chile better. I like the USA better. I think Red China is kind of a sad and probably pretty brutal and desperate place to live. I don't want to be like them. And I don't think that's what most voters had in mind as "hope and change" when they voted in 2008. However, I think it's pretty unavoidably obvious that that's exactly where we're heading. The Comrade has packed his Czar staff with unapologetic Maoists and the like who think China is a good model for the future of the USA.

I don't agree. Do you? Don't forget to vote on November 2. It's really important this year.

Save the Republic. It's not too late.