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1. YEAH! I'm for "double economic growth and eliminate poverty" too!!!!! :-)

Reply to sandensea (Original post)

Sun Dec 17, 2017, 07:52 PM

Dec 2017

Last edited Sun Dec 17, 2017, 09:46 PM - Edit history (1)

Months of campaigning exposed deepening rifts among the country’s once bedrock centre left, an opening former president Piñera leveraged to rally more centrist voters around his proposals to cut corporate taxes, double economic growth and eliminate poverty in the world’s top copper producer.

Is this what it takes to win elections now, wonderful-sounding non-specific broad general promises of a better economy? (like in the U.S. of A.?)

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Sebastian Pinera winner of Chile's presidential election [View all] sandensea Dec 2017 OP

YEAH! I'm for "double economic growth and eliminate poverty" too!!!!! :-) progree Dec 2017 #1

Next door, Temer's Brazil and Macri's Argentina - both trickle-down cheerleaders - are a mess sandensea Dec 2017 #3

Since the Chilean constitution doesn't allow a president to run for a second consecutive term... regnaD kciN Dec 2017 #2

True - although the center-left Concertacion governed for 20 years btw 1990 and 2010. sandensea Dec 2017 #6

What a shame people in high places conspired to run this clown again. Judi Lynn Dec 2017 #4

It is. sandensea Dec 2017 #5