In Chile, Pensions Grow on Trees
By Dave and Erik do the necessary work of flushing John Tierney’s latest tripe on the Chilean privatized pension system.
The only thing that surprised me about Tierney’s column was how far behind he is on the Republican message. The Chilean “success” was trashed several months ago, but perhaps John didn’t receive the memo. In the future, he should try a bit harder; it can’t be that difficult to find a single relatively representative Chilean who has derived some benefit from the pension system. Also, I thought that the boys at Tech Central Station had moved beyond the unrepresentative supporting anecdote and toward the poorly manufactured supporting statistic.