Bingo decides the order of municipal staff payments in Argentine town
A bingo is determining which civil servants in a small Argentine town will receive their pay, due to insufficient funds, its mayor announced on Monday.
“We will draw lots to decide the (order) of payment”, said mayor of Bialet Masse, Gustavo Pueyo, in a broadcast from Buenos Aires private radio station Radio Mitre.
Pueyo said the bingo was approved by national mayoral authorities and the first draw took place on Friday, with 23 of the town's 92 employees receiving their pay. A second raffle is slated for this week.
Home to 5.000 inhabitants, Bialet Masse is a tourist destination in the central province of Cordoba, 750km north-west of Buenos Aires.
The situation in Bialet Masse is not uncommon to many small town halls throughout Argentina because of lesser revenue and the delay from the federal government in sending the so-called co-participation funds, which Buenos Aires distributes on its own whim.
The Economy secretariat from Alba Caballero County said that according to what the town hall collects from rates and services, “we will hold a second bingo for the staff that still are waiting to be paid”.
Ms Caballero said that municipal rates and services are the last to be paid by contributors, “since people are well aware we will never cut them”.
Finally the official revealed that the original idea was for the lowest salaries to be met first, but the staff following an assembly decided “on the bingo system; it wasn’t us”.
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ahh,
Sun Bingo , Sun Bingo, Sun Bingooooo.
A line,
and a full house .
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That would make their sovereignty claims over the FI, interesting to say the least!!
So lets see... if some tiny town in the UK is populated by child molesters, then we must conclude that you all are.
Bialet Masse is a TINY town (and town is generous) that depends 100% on tourism, and it has nearby Cosquin which is the main draw anyway for the folk and rock festivals. So all their income is made in two months pretty much, January and February. The rest of the year, not much since while people do travel it is fraction and there are no big tour contracts and concerts then which trully help the coffers.
Bingo dilemma solved.
Elaine, keep dreaming. Even as a staunch pro-Mendoza guy, no argie believes in separatism, that is for backwards, disloyal countries like your own and those in your part of the world.
Facts are, we have laws other here, such as the employment rights act 1998 that means it is unlawful for an employer (wether its the government of private/public company) to not pay employees their pay on their contracted pay day. It is also unlawful for the state to pay less than what the law deems is required for any person to live off, in state benefits, which also means that unfortunately even pedos are entitled to minimum that the law says is required for them to live of on state benefits.
However, in argentina, employers do not have to pay their employees on time and it is deemed perfectly acceptable to hold a bingo draw to determine which employees get paid and which have to wait until further funds become available. I would hate to imagine how many months wages are owned to any one employee as a result. Its pathetic and your trying to disguise how pathetic and clownish it looks by making statements about child molestors in british towns. You clearly forget that other here the age of consent is 16 whilst in argentina it is only 13 and the fact that it is a well know fact that poorer countries have higher rates of sexual assualts on children than in more develop countries, only reason it may appear that we have more pedos here, is purely because we have better policing and justice system, meaning more are offenders are caught, where in argentina policing is a joke, hence your high murder rates and other crime rates.
Now back to my first statement about your fascination on child molesters, one must wonder why your so fascinated with them and why you keep calling us brits them, you do know the saying “it takes one to know one!” don't you?
And before you complain about me calling you a child molester, i suggest you think about about how many times you have called us brits here on these comment boards child molestors, racist, sexist and etc. Just goes to show who you really are!!
Oh! Teaboy flag waiver strikes again with BS wanted to portrait a perfect Britain.
Thousands of care workers paid under legal limit
“Panorama discovers that many British workers are still being paid much less than the law states”
“Susan (not her real name) is one of more than two million people employed in the care industry in the UK.
She wanted to remain anonymous for fear of losing her job.”
news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/55751000/jpg/_55751647_lowpaydemogettyresize.jpg
“Her hourly rate was £6.16 but she was not paid for the 10-hour sleepover part of the shift - even though she was often disturbed by the patient during the night - leaving her with an average hourly rate of £3.36 - well below minimum wage and making life a struggle.
”It is just so difficult, you have to count each penny. It is a matter of having a bag of potatoes that will last me a week for supper, or it is baked beans on toast.”
“On June 29, a 48-year-old man tied himself to the railings outside Selly Oak Jobcentre in Birmingham, England, dousing himself with fuel and setting himself alight. He was protesting not receiving his benefit payment.
This horrific event is the direct outcome of the austerity measures implemented by the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition....
Unemployed worker sets himself on fire for not receiving his benefit payment.
A Guardian source reported that the man had been identified as vulnerable, with longstanding health issues, but had been found “fit to work” by a work-capability assessment. His payments had been delayed.”
Do you want more?
In such a 'me firster' society it is only a wonder is hasn't happened already.
TTT don't be so terrified of leaving the nest. You cannot learn everything from a book, you need some life experience too.
I'm certain you don't want us to spend 5 minutes researching poverty in Argentina, the amount of copy 'n' pasting that would be done would quickly turn this page into the most posted in Mercopress History.
You are quite simply on crack, or paco.
How about you post some links to those separatist themes? I thought you were intelligent, I was wrong and I stand corrected.
This poor woman takes comments like “Buenos Aires is out of control” (true) and equals them to “we want to break away”.
Idiotic at the very least.
If I asked people in the UK, US or any European country what do you think of taxes, they would say “too high”. If I was Elaine, I would conclude that you all are tax dodgers. That's a perfect analogy of how ridiculous she is.
No argentine province will separate or break away or even has any organized movement to break away, period, end of story.
It not from a forum is from BBC news and “Panorama”.
An Investigative TV show from BBC One
news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_9604000/9604221.stm
Here you have more
“Police in Bristol have arrested four people after secret filming by BBC Panorama found a pattern of serious abuse at a residential hospital.”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13548222
Undercover reporter 'haunted' by abuse of patients
www.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_9501000/9501531.stm
“My experience at Winterbourne View will stay with me for a very long time.
The hitting, slapping, bullying, dousing with water, cruel and often pointless use of physical restraint on people - many with a child-like understanding of the world - all happened in front of my eyes...
On a near-daily basis, I watched as some of the very people entrusted with the care of society's most vulnerable targeted patients - often, it seemed, for their own amusement. They are scenes of torment that are not easily forgotten.”
Do you want more shocking stories from UK and the state of decline it has or that is just enough?
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