Oct 18, 2015 New York Times
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/18/new-...ant-bolavars-but-no-one-can-spare-a-dime.html
If this were not real life, this would be comedy....the description of living with these anecdotal descriptions of life in Venezuela day. I mean funny.
Gut wrenching statements like minimum income people now only have one week income for one month of expenses reminds you this is reality, and it is a violent shake of reminder.
I did a search on ET just now for Venezuela once for topic and once for postings and was surprised not to find but one posting of life in that country. I think I understand: I almost didn't read it after seeing the subject line; hell, we all know its life lived lower than whale dung, and who wants to read about it ?
But it is an article I would wish to use as a poster child example of government gone wrong inflicting misery on lives with bad economics driven by bad leadership. So what's new ? Venezuela and Argentina hits me as differently than the crimes committed to humanity in the Middle East. The two countries have important common threads. Here is the punch line: There is left sided governments of Europe and S. America and I see big differences in style with big differences in results as relates to quality of life. Of course, in the developed European ones, there is a history with a much bigger head starts in time line than S. America that allows it less abusive at the top as we see it in current days.
I have observed closely abuse in leadership in the USA driving bad economics especially as applied as an accelerant to a fire. We are all aware of the potential if not inevitable disaster awaiting; you choose the most likely probability of decrease of quality of life going forward; you can match that with your scene of the degradation of freedom and quality of life.
The one thing that I can't get out of my mind as relates to the last paragraph, is when things get bad as they did 6 years ago, voters, especially under educated and/or under-informed, can swing the pendulum hard in the other direction. The question to me is HOW HARD allowing for a demagogue with a party allied and complicit with what will become-- net result-- loss in liberty and harshest of hardships in living that are unimaginable today.
It is easy to make essays on the subject, (as I guess I did setting this up), but any brief words from you regardless of your direction in thinking are welcome. I just ask we be respectful of the right to express an opinion regardless of no respect for the opinion. I am looking for insights to illuminate me/us in ways I/we may have overlooked.
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/18/new-...ant-bolavars-but-no-one-can-spare-a-dime.html
If this were not real life, this would be comedy....the description of living with these anecdotal descriptions of life in Venezuela day. I mean funny.
Gut wrenching statements like minimum income people now only have one week income for one month of expenses reminds you this is reality, and it is a violent shake of reminder.
I did a search on ET just now for Venezuela once for topic and once for postings and was surprised not to find but one posting of life in that country. I think I understand: I almost didn't read it after seeing the subject line; hell, we all know its life lived lower than whale dung, and who wants to read about it ?
But it is an article I would wish to use as a poster child example of government gone wrong inflicting misery on lives with bad economics driven by bad leadership. So what's new ? Venezuela and Argentina hits me as differently than the crimes committed to humanity in the Middle East. The two countries have important common threads. Here is the punch line: There is left sided governments of Europe and S. America and I see big differences in style with big differences in results as relates to quality of life. Of course, in the developed European ones, there is a history with a much bigger head starts in time line than S. America that allows it less abusive at the top as we see it in current days.
I have observed closely abuse in leadership in the USA driving bad economics especially as applied as an accelerant to a fire. We are all aware of the potential if not inevitable disaster awaiting; you choose the most likely probability of decrease of quality of life going forward; you can match that with your scene of the degradation of freedom and quality of life.
The one thing that I can't get out of my mind as relates to the last paragraph, is when things get bad as they did 6 years ago, voters, especially under educated and/or under-informed, can swing the pendulum hard in the other direction. The question to me is HOW HARD allowing for a demagogue with a party allied and complicit with what will become-- net result-- loss in liberty and harshest of hardships in living that are unimaginable today.
It is easy to make essays on the subject, (as I guess I did setting this up), but any brief words from you regardless of your direction in thinking are welcome. I just ask we be respectful of the right to express an opinion regardless of no respect for the opinion. I am looking for insights to illuminate me/us in ways I/we may have overlooked.
