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Please explain the rationale that guides your desire for everyone to 'have' the same amount of resources. Do you A): Believe every able-bodied person contributes the same amount to society and therefore deserves to enjoy the same amount if its fruits, or do you B): Believe that not every...

Goddammit ElQueso! Are you also the guy that imports dog shit from the secret CIA kennels and spreads it on the Bs As sidewalks at night while we are sleeping? Neil

Update: Based on the result from the private MRI my father had yesterday (and paid out of pocket for) he will be admitted to the (public) hospital tomorrow morning for several days of tests that will inevitably result in surgery. I'd like to hear from all the government health care cheerleaders...

Are you kidding me? I'm sending you one link: http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/venezuela/bribery.htm You can Google the rest yourself. Neil

No, it is not. He wants to control it and is using the IRS as his enforcer. The quality has ALWAYS been low. How do think private hospitals came about? Do you think they were a response to excellent, low-cost government health care? I've lived in all of Scandinavia and my closest family...

I think you got that wrong. Your entire real estate industry runs on US dollars. Any other large and important transaction runs on US dollars. When Chavez wants to buy Argentine politicians, he sends a suitcase of dollars, not pesos. Argentines can't get enough of iPhones. They can't get...

What the hell people! The US and Japan, with 31% combined stock holdings, set a corporate agenda for ADB of starting a war in Afghanistan so that a pipeline could be constructed. The US government then spends XXX billion dollars and risks political fallout abroad and at home for what? The US...

For Christmas this year, I am sending everyone on this forum an Economics 101 textbook. Neil

-A good post and the car-analogy is very relevant. I have lived in 5 socialist countries with the kind of health care system that Obama endorses and I fear for what will happen in the US unless this law gets overturned by the Supreme Court. Today, my father had an MRI done at a private...

That is a nice quote. -Too bad it will be ignored by most people. Neil

It's 'skål', actually. I grew up in Norway and could go over some basics with you, but I'm out of the country at the moment. I expect to be back in Bs As in a month or so. PM me and we can do an exchange. I need help with my castellano. Neil

I will NEVER understand how the government here reasons. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8604372.stm National pride, socialist doctrine and other BS aside: Is it so hard to understand that Argentina needs China more than China needs Argentina? I guess the same business school that teaches...

There are many threads on bringing money into Argentina, but not much info on getting it back out again. I asked this question a while back, but there didn't seem to be any response, so here 'tis again: Who here have brought (using any method) a large sum of money such as the proceeds from a...

ElQueso, we read wreReynolds' post differently.I believe it was about making real estate transactions in dollars vs. pesos. But, regarding getting funds into Argentina: What if you hand-carry the funds in and check the 'more than US$10,000'-box on your customs form? Who will you find at EZE to...

The entire board lives in PARIS. Neil

I don't understand how some people get 'nailed'. Do you have any examples? Everything is advertised in US$. My escritura for a new unit completed in 2006 states the purchase price in US$. Nestor Kirchner was just grilled in the press for buying US$ 2M, right before the value of the peso dipped...

I fled from socialism and thought I found a haven in the US. -Alas... Neil

Don't carry anything for anyone. -Ever. Repacking someone's suitcase yourself seems pretty futile giving this recent event: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/06/03/2009-06-03_she_flew_with_2_bags_of_coke.html Neil

That the reign of the US should be over is simply ridiculous. Which nation is supposed to take its place? If you are dead-set on living in the US, you can simply come as a tourist and overstay. They will never, ever come looking for you. I don't even believe an arrest would cause you to be...

Simmons here is made in Argentina. Yes, it's expensive junk. If you like firm mattresses, consider an all-foam model. It's half the price or less. Neil