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[jaredwb]

Come on!! What the f#@k is going on in Argentina!! Goverment Ministers forcing themselves onto PRIVATE companies boards. Bankers...BANKERS who work 6 frickin hours a day are striking because they didn't get 35% salary increases, just 24%. Crazy Bitch President restricting land ownership for foreigners. Propaganda on the TV attacking companies the Gov doesn't like. Crazy Bitch President getting off with CRAZY psycho Union Thugs. Carne Para Todos! Computers Para Todos! Digital TV Para Todos! Money Para Todos!

The question this time is, will the people actually doing something about it or after the next crisis (VERY soon) will we all be saluting Comrade Cristina.

 

[xibeca]

What else is new? Since when has Argentine people "done anything about it"? You make it sound like Argentina never has had these problems before.

 

[syngirl]

Come on!! What the f#@k is going on in Argentina!! Goverment Ministers forcing themselves onto PRIVATE companies boards.

If you're talking about ANSES putting people on the boards of the companies, I can't actually say that they're doing anything wrong -- as majority shareholders in the companies, they should have representation on the board. Moyano, however, should be told exactly where to go, since he is also demanding that his people be put on the boards of various companies...

(I can't stand Moyano... I'm still irritated about the recorded message I got today on my phone from Filmus and Moyano addressing me as their Querido Vecino... hopefully it's not one of those things where they keep calling back until you actually listen to the whole damned message)

 

[ndcj]

Coro, April 24th 2011 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – The results of the Gallup Organisation’s most recent poll on wellbeing placed Venezuela in sixth place out of 124 countries. The poll, which was published on Thursday, is the result of a series of telephone and face-to-face surveys conducted between February and December 2010.

http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/6149

Maybe it's not so bad after all. If you want to enjoy all the trappings of capitalism at all costs, I think you're probably in the wrong country.

 

[French jurist]

Restrictions on land ownership is practiced by all countries (US, Europe, etc.).
Propagandas (hidden or not) on TVs attacking the opposite side take place in every country.
Any country owning shares in companies has the right to place its own representatives (still the ANSES story was a steal, that's correct. Like refinancing the US banks when they actually ruined the economy).

People will keep voting left because oddly enough poor people vote left.

As for insulting the President of Argentina, I guess that if under the Bush administration a foreign resident in the US had insulted Bush on a public forum, he would have been deported quite quickly, so Argentina, under this aspect, is quite a democratic country indeed.

Viva la Republica Argentina !

 

[marksoc]

Soooo Jared, I guess that you are not a supporter of socialism then...

 

[jaredwb]

Soooo Jared, I guess that you are not a supporter of socialism then...

Only if you were in charge

 

[luismarcos]

There were very public protests in the streets of Los Angeles by "illegal aliens" about their rights or supposed rights...people rarely get deported in the US for being a foreign resident and speaking their minds...yes there are cases in the news of searches that look for illegals but we all know nothing really happens.......that is just the way it is

Yes, any country that wants to become the future Cuba or Venezuela has the right to its own representatives on the boards of companies and to steal money from its future generations. That is why there is a brain drain of Argentines to Brazil, Chile, US, Europe...and that is why people are trying like mad to get their money out of the country...iViva la Presidenta!

I agree that people are shortsignted in many parts of the world. That is why many elderly in the US vote for extremists who want to eliminate their Medicare and follow blindly a government that led the US to horribly expensive wars in terms of lives and money

 

[gouchobob]

http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/6149

Maybe it's not so bad after all. If you want to enjoy all the trappings of capitalism at all costs, I think you're probably in the wrong country.

Venezuelanlysis.com is not exactly a fair and balanced news organization. If you look at the U.N. Human Development Index, probably a lot more comprehensive measure of actual conditions, Venezuela ranks 75th out of 85 countries and shows the biggest drop in the index 17 points of any country compared to the prior survey. Maybe things aren't so good in Hugoland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index

 

[elhombresinnombre]

Venezuelanlysis.com is not exactly a fair and balanced news organization.

Agreed about Venezuelanlysis but if you google a little you'll see the stats have come directly from the Gallup website. Surprising (IMO) but true.

And anyway, we were talking about the Gallup International Wellbeing Poll, not the U.N. Human Development Index