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It's not just Argentina, it's most of south america. Politics is dysfunctional here. "Socialism" is the default, and the best way to get votes here: welfare p

It's not just Argentina, it's most of south america. Politics is dysfunctional here. "Socialism" is the default, and the best way to get votes here: welfare programs (that never work) gets you the votes of the poor and the intellectual elite, while a big and wasteful government is the #1 client of the private sector in a weak economy. It's triple win. Then, when the economy fails (because of taxation, evading investment, unprepared workforce) they can always blame on "the man", "USA", "neoliberalism", whatever... And another term begins. Argentina went downhill because they've been in this process longer. Ignoring the pathological cases (Venezuela, Bolivia), if the other countries here like Uruguay or Brazil don't rev up, we'll have another Argentina 5-10 years down the line. This year the Brazilian government was caught masquerading economic indicators for 2013 to keep inflation inside the goal.

oscargrouch 13y ago
Equating Brazil, with Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia and Uruguay just because they are in the same continent, is a very common mistake analists from The Economist and other specialized media with the same ideological values does.. without really knowing what they are talking about.. I can understand the fact they cant understand it very well because of the lack of a cultural perspective to do it right.. (and the people they represent) What i dont understand is people from inside, reverberating that sort of speech.. making clear you dont know very well what are you talking about.. or which class you are defending with this speech.. (and its probably not yourself, unless you are part of the top 1%) But its very simple to measure how bad we are.. Take a look at your own economical condition, to see if you did not improve it with time..
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oscargrouch 13y ago

Equating Brazil, with Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia and Uruguay just because they are in the same continent, is a very common mistake analists from The Economist and other specialized media with the same ideological values does.. without really knowing what they are talking about.. I can understand the fact they cant understand it very well because of the lack of a cultural perspective to do it right.. (and the people they represent) What i dont understand is people from inside, reverberating that sort of speech.. making clear you dont know very well what are you talking about.. or which class you are defending with this speech.. (and its probably not yourself, unless you are part of the top 1%) But its very simple to measure how bad we are.. Take a look at your own economical condition, to see if you did not improve it with time..

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