It's nice that you probably genuinely want to help other nations, however, if you look at what actually happens (and thanks also to Wikileaks we have the source

It's nice that you probably genuinely want to help other nations, however, if you look at what actually happens (and thanks also to Wikileaks we have the sources), it's not so rosy. I suggest maybe better looking into what your government is doing before you're going to praise it. > But we should consider the counterfactual. What if Allende had stayed in power? Chile would not be the beacon of stability and growth that it is today. Excuse me, but this is utter bullshit. We don't know what would happen. I was born in communist country (Czechoslovakia), and in the 1970s and 1980s (and in fact overall), it was much more civilized than Pinochet's regime. Maybe we had slower GDP growth (probably not by much, Pinochet economic policies were no super success either); so what? Higher GDP growth, in my book, doesn't justify killing a single dissident (because, "considering the counter factual", there are plenty examples of having high growth without violence). > Membership in the euroclub requires fiscal responsibility; governments can no longer rely on running the print presses to pay their debt. Weirdly, in the U.S., rules like that apparently do not hold. California didn't have fiscal responsibility and is still a member of the club, and FED not running a printing press?