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CFK calls on unions to cool down and ratifies she’s ‘not dying to be president again’
Argentine Minister of Interior ratified late Tuesday that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner threat that she would not bid for re-election next October if organized labour continues to pressure on her government. However CFK is not annoyed with Hugo Moyano chief of the powerful Labour Confederation, CGT. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesCFK is NOT the person to get Argentina out of its fix - she is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
May 18th, 2011 - 01:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She, AND the unions should read the British history of the Thatcher years:
The British unions pushed, pushed, and pushed until the Government pushed back with all the force of the democratic state. It was an unequal fight and the Government won and destroyed the power of the unions. Embitterment divided the country for more than a generation, but at least the country became ‘governable’ again.
A union boss who extends beyond his remit – support for the fair treatment of the members of the union – is a rapacious big-beast, using his position to advance or withdraw the nation’s workers in the fight for ‘advancement’, using the union membership as the ‘poor, bloody infantry’ (from World War 1, where the phrase ‘Lions led by Donkeys’ also comes from).
Rapacious beasts need the protection of a strong cage – somewhere where they can gently lose the adrenalin generated in their struggle for state-power, and where they can return to looking after their union members.
By analogy, they are the biggest ram in the flock of sheep, but even Top-Ram must defer to the sheepdog. And the sheepdog must defer to the sheep-farmer. So it is – and so it should be – in national governance.
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May 18th, 2011 - 03:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So, who do you think “the person to get Argentina out of its fix” should be? That is also the problem people here discuss. There are few alternatives.
And the unions,..Argentina is simply behind the times. Unions have historically grown too big for their britches and always get squashed by a government. Argentina has not reached that phase yet but will; most locals here are already pretty peeved with the unions.
I see no 'George Washington', no 'Bill of Rights', no-one of True Grit on the horizon
May 18th, 2011 - 08:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0- but others are closer to the action than I,
perhaps there is a White Knight - an uncorrupted, uncorruptable one - out there in eg. the groves of academe, the judicary.
This country needs leading out of the wilderness of strange ideas and even stranger governances.
Which true Argentinean will stand up and bring his/her country into the modern (first)world?
Argentina has capable leaders possibly able to run the country, but they are smart enough not to get involved with the chaos of politics existing right now. And the near future does not look favourable, either.
May 19th, 2011 - 02:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Jerry #4
May 19th, 2011 - 06:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you choose to watch, and wait for things to improve, you are the wrong person.
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May 19th, 2011 - 10:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Interesting point. Cobos is the only one that fits the bill. Though most people believe he told the truth when he made that fateful export tax vote,.. oddly, at the same time they brand him as a traitor. I'm not sure if you can be honest in Argentina. It's seen as a weakness.
At least Argentine President Cristina Fernandez was able to increase Argentina's economic growth rate while decrasing its external debt along with decreasing unemployment while improving Argentine Industry and increasing its exports to the world markets, a lot better than ex President Menem who sold most Argentine companies to foreigners especially to the Yanks. So she should stay in power at least
May 23rd, 2011 - 09:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0she is moving Argentina forward.
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