Garcia Wins Peru

[Colpy]

Health care, especially if you include dental, vision, perscriptions, and on and on is largely private in Canada.

EI is a user-financed (plus!) insurance scheme.

There is little control of the means of production by the government in Canada...........

Private enterprise rules......

NOT socialist.

 

[Jay]

CanadianContent Laws are a good place to start.

 

[I think not]

I wouldn't really call that socialism Jay, more like protecting traditions.

 

[Karlin]

powerful business elite against the rest

"powerful business elite against the rest" - that is the winners platform -quote below. So it is a LOT like Chavez.

"its the corporate control problem" again[so it is sort of anti-american.]

America is corporate central in this world, and BOTH candidates were running on platforms of anti-corporate controls, as corporations have plundered Peru badly over the years.

The issues around "powerful business elite against the rest" is what the entire world need to address. Global warming will not be overcome until we do that.

Ollanta Humala is campaigning to shift more control of the economy into state hands and pledges to discard what he calls the "neo-liberal" policies of the current government and do more for the poor.

"The people are waiting for change, they are desperate," he told a news conference in the run-up to the April 9 election.

"The division in this country is not right versus left, but the powerful business elite against the rest," he added

http://tinyurl.com/kav8p
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Oh ya, and of course you remember that LAST Peru election's fraud charges? Thats why you are so sure this wasn't fraud? Check it out:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/764979.stm
from yr.2000:

Fujimori ran unopposed because the only opposition candidate, Alejandro Toledo, had pulled out of the contest arguing that the election was rigged in favour of the president

 

[EagleSmack]

I wouldn't really call that socialism Jay, more like protecting traditions.

I laughed SO HARD on this one.

 

[Toro]

Sure all its social programs are socialist leaning to equality for all. Health Care, EI and on and on.

Social programs in America too.

Canada is closer to America than Europe.

 

[Jay]

I wouldn't really call that socialism Jay, more like protecting traditions.

But those laws are real, incase any of my American friends aren't aware.

 

[Toro]

Re: powerful business elite against the rest

Ollanta Humala is campaigning to shift more control of the economy into state hands and pledges to discard what he calls the "neo-liberal" policies of the current government and do more for the poor.

"The people are waiting for change, they are desperate," he told a news conference in the run-up to the April 9 election.

"The division in this country is not right versus left, but the powerful business elite against the rest," he added

http://tinyurl.com/kav8p

The middle class voted for Garcia. It also voted for the right-wing woman whose name I can't remember in the first election a month ago.

 

[I think not]

I think Garcia should invade Venezuela, all they need is help from the Columbians, that shouldn't be too difficult.

 

[Finder]

The Columbian government is pretty far from right of centre. Actually in the last election the democratic socialists did better then they ever have in the past in that country. Columbia is the Alberta of South America, um without the oil, and um with the cocaine.


Jearsy the Socialist party of the USA gets weaker every year and was only strong in two states ever were they elected congress men and mayors and what not. The best bet is on two different parties. The Social Democratic party which is Centre-Left and the Democratic socialists party which has a few marxist leanings but is generally social democractic and centre-left, left to loonie left.

So yeah if you don't support the Democrats, I'd support the Social Democratic Party of the USA. Both the Democrats and the SD-USA get my support.

 

[Toro]

I think Garcia should invade Venezuela, all they need is help from the Columbians, that shouldn't be too difficult.

A couple thousand Cuban military advisers are in Venezuela.