Portugal's prime minister resigns after austerity vote failure

[Joe McCarthy]

Originally Posted by Civis Batavi
The country was doing so well that a large part of the population couldn't read and write because the government didn't consider it to be important and it was only after the fall of the regime that it became a priority. Today still only 93 percent can read and write. Compare it to 68,1 percent in the 1930s (note: Salazar came to power in the 1920s) and public education was "made available" in the 1950s.

Yes, I mentioned the lack of literacy earlier.

You are a complete idiot for falsifying history in order to make it suit your anti-freedom, American rhetoric.

Is this supposed to be a joke? The US has never had the type of system existing under the Estado Novo, and the US was skeptical toward Salazar for much of his tenure, though as usual in such cases, he was preferred to Communists.

You certainly get high (low?) marks for flaming in this thread though.

[The Lawspeaker]

LOL. You just come here to talk other countries down all the time (and praise dictators) - I bet, as having seen you post on matters concerning your own country, that you're always negative ("liberalism this, liberalism that" Guess what.. I am a lib in some ways, conservative in some other ways and I don't even want to be compared to your stereotypical kind of libs nor do I want to be a conservative your style.).

And the only thing you have come to do here in this thread is to derail it. And that's something you do and over and over again with your pathetic little rants against something you deem "liberal". Which basically which is anything less dictatorial then Adolf Hitler I guess. Ooh no wait: he was a liberal too.. hey it's nationalism socialism after all.


I don't have to respect you in any way because you just have a chip on your shoulder the size of a synagogue.