Still Crying for Argentina

An Argentinian friend told me, "The most ugly sentence coming from Eva was one that parallels the reasoning of Karl Marx: Where there is a need, there is a right. She was an expert in manipulating the media and education."

If you needed it (or just really wanted it and were loyal to Peron), you were entitled to it and Eva would get it for you. She routinely bullied private businesses to cough up cash or goods so she could redistribute the loot. She steered public tax money to her pet causes and loyal friends, always reminding them who they owed allegiance to. It never mattered to her what the economic cost of her largesse was because, after all, she was "doing good." She once said, "Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it."