MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Despite inflation Astori argues that cutting government spending is not the solution
It is a mistake to blame government expenditure for the increase of prices, as is the concept that inflation can be defeated by cutting government spending, said Uruguayan Vice-president and economist Danilo Astori, who argued that in many cases these funds are essential to finance public investments and social policies. Read full article
Comments
Disclaimer & comment rulesUruguay's inflation problem is home made.
Mar 15th, 2014 - 12:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0With administered salary increases, poor productivity, unskilled and the longer the less motivated labour.
I cannot see any meaningful state investment since years, if not into unproductive areas such as state labor force and social welfare.
The Uruguayan industry is highly protected through extreme duties and taxes on imports. Therefor Uruguayan industrial and consumer products are of average to poor quality, competing only with imported Chinese crap in the domestic market. These products are no way competitive in a global market.
As soon as the capital inflow of foolish foreign investors dries up, Uruguay will have a big problem. And we are about to be there. I would not invest a cent in Uruguay under the current conditions.
And I believe many who have invested in the past came to the same conclusion and regret their decision.
The planned economy of Uruguay is on the wrong path. It's a 'developing country', developing in the wrong direction since many years.
I read your post, then I read this;
Mar 15th, 2014 - 12:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.espectador.com/sociedad/286847/empresa-espanola-viscofan-abre-planta-en-uruguay
Then I.... chuckle...
:)
(2) Stevie
Mar 15th, 2014 - 12:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Long time no hear....
Were have you been hiding, you young commie ;-)
I wouldn't worry so much about Mr. Hans Ochsner....
Yet another “Richie Rich” European that wanted an even richier “Richie Rich” life in a little “Third World Feudal Paradise” of his choice...
He seems to be on his way back home...., though.
http://www.expatexchange.com/re.cfm?answerid=37932&networkid=115
Hahahaha Think!!!
Mar 15th, 2014 - 01:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I thank you for that input, but most of all, I thank Hans Ochsner for choosing to move on.
Everybody in Uruguay shares the responsability to do what they can in order to improve the country, it would seem Hans is doing his part :)
Hahahahaha!!!
@Stevie: I am doing my part to improve the country I moved on to 3 years ago.
Mar 15th, 2014 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But you don't seem to do a very good job down there! Have fun down there overpaying for poor quality and services! Glad you don't even notice, so it does not hurt....hahaha
Location:
Mar 15th, 2014 - 01:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Circunvalacion del Golf y 5 caminos, Barrio Golf, Punta del Este, Maldonado Uruguay
Price:
US$ 850'000
Bedrooms:
5
Full Baths:
4
Half Baths:
Square Footage:
3700
Contact Info:
Hans Ochsner
Telephone:
+507 6093 2741
E-mail:
hans.ochsner@gmail.com
370m2 of living space on a lot of 2'000m2 Renovated/built in 2009 with quality materials
Standard includes:
Outdoor pool 11 x 4 m
Floor heating
2 wood stoves Biofire
Air-condition
Electric remote controlled shutters
Remote controlled entrance/garage door
Garage for 2 cars
Alarm system
Good internet connection
Cable TV
Modern european decoration
Beautiful garden, completely fenced
Location:
Centrally located, but very quiet neighborhood.
10 min. walk to the beach
5 min. drive to the city
center/shopping/schools
Current setup with employees works very well and can be taken over.
The perfect home to live all year round in beautiful Punta del Este.
...
...
...
You forgot to mention the drawbacks to your potential buyers....
Hahahahahaha!!!!!
(5) hans.ochsner
Mar 15th, 2014 - 01:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Expats like you “Doing their part to improve our Countries” as at your comment number (1), are quite abundant & cheap down here…..
As a matter of fact I ”Think” the going rate is about 1 Groschen for a Dozen….
So, mein lieber Herr Ochsner….
Merci vielmal for the time you chose to share with us down here and……have a nice life......
Grüezi
El Think.
Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina.
@ Stevie: Thank you for putting the free add into MercoPress!
Mar 15th, 2014 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks to MercoPress as well! Did not know that this is possible!
Just that some information is not up to date anymore.
For all folks interested: Feel free to write! I will connect you with the person in charge!
Neither Think or Stevie live in their birth country. I don't know why they think its funny to pick on someone who chooses to live in South America.
Mar 15th, 2014 - 02:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0BTW Steve, I love love love watching the end to the firewall of Socialism in South America.
Sorry for the people but Communism/Socialism never ends well.
You watch all you need, yanqui.
Mar 15th, 2014 - 02:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It will not end though, it never did...
You think the people will give up what they have achieved?
Little by Little, old man, we're not in a hurry...
;)
Venezuela is on fire right now.
Mar 15th, 2014 - 03:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The students are burning socialism on the flaming barricades, one might say.
Coming soon to Argentina. ...
10. You are such a fool. The only people who have acheived anything are the corrupt pols and the billionaire Chavez family.
Mar 15th, 2014 - 04:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Today, the government's official exchange rate remains locked at 6.3 bolivars to the dollar, but on the black market the rate is at 80 to 90 bolivars to the dollar, around 14 times the official rate. Such disparity means that foreign goods are now incredibly expensive, leading to shortages. It's become so bad that people are only allowed to go to the supermarket once a week, and when they get there, they find little on the shelves.
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/14/venezuela-protests-inflation/
This is ending like all marxists states have ended. Badly.
My family is suffering terrible shortages in Venezuela right now.
Mar 15th, 2014 - 06:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina is following the Chavistas path to hell.
Yes, it’s great to see to behemoths of idiocy and hypocrisy mouthing on here.
Mar 15th, 2014 - 06:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have been in Uruguay for almost three years and have the largest part of my wealth invested in the country, something which neither Lunatic or “Free energy” Stevie have.
I am sick to death of my hard earned money being used to fund the idle bastards who never worked at school, never had a job (just like their parents) and are living off the state because cunts like “No money Pepe” and this idiot think they must do something.
Yes, they must, RESIGN.
What Uruguay needs is good education, less taxes to stimulate those who do work even further and an economy aimed at providing proper non-governmental jobs, the only ones that pay taxes.
But it will never happen. Even the stupid idle bastards know where they are better off and will never vote for Christmas.
It will take a financial wreck to rid the country of the stupid Tupamaros and their ilk or until they all expire and the sooner the better, all of them.
Free energy Stevie would have us believe he has a house in Uruguay that he lives in all year round. I don’t believe that for a nanosecond simply because his wife will not tolerate living on pesos when she has lived in an advanced society.
For all his bluster Free energy Stevie is pussy whipped.
MercoPress....
Mar 15th, 2014 - 08:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The meeting point for whining Expats living in Punta del Este...
On comments (1), (5) & (8) we have Mr. Hans, the Swiss Import Agent...
On comment (14) Mr. Chris, the English pensioner that couldn't afford Australia...
The violent crime is getting out of control in BA and GBA.
Mar 15th, 2014 - 08:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As expected as the economy continues to careen out of control.
Just one of my many predictions that is coming to pass.
Watch Venezuela to see Argentina's immediate future.
@ 15 Lunatic of Chew Butt
Mar 15th, 2014 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are quite correct that I could no longer afford to retire to Australia due in large part by half my net wealth being taken by The Cunt Brown © Jeremy Clarkson 2010 and the soaring housing and other costs in Oz.
But, do tell us all, just why is it that you live in a wooden shack (your words I believe) in Chubut when your history is one of wealth? But unlike me, you did not realise it for yourself, did you?
I think “Think” it’s about time you pensioned off A_Voice, if only to retain what bit of sanity you still have.
Schizophrenia anyone?
What did Uruguay do to deserve you Chris?
Mar 15th, 2014 - 09:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't understand....
Changing the topic.....
Mar 15th, 2014 - 09:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Here I am, in my humble (but quite quaint ;-) post & beam Patagonian shed wondering about why it is that...:
Any 11 years old hacker kid could easily pinpoint my old computer's position through my IP address...
Any telephone company employee can pinpoint my cheap cell phone's position through simple triangulation ...
My Yankee neighbour can pinpoint the location of his horses in the midst of the Patagonian steppe by some “Pet Track” Gizmo he brought back from the USA...
Why can nobody find a 300 million dollar Boeing 777 lost more than a week ago?
Why didn't you comment on my post@13?
Mar 16th, 2014 - 12:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0Too close to reality for you?
Real people with out food or gas?
How is your f*ckin socialist dream looking now?
Think @ 15
Mar 16th, 2014 - 02:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Actually there's an expats' organisation meeting in Punta del Este once a month, including several Argentines. I've never heard a pro-CKF or anti-Falklands remark from them. Mostly they talk about how to deal with the local bureaucracy.
20
Mar 16th, 2014 - 05:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Because you make thing up to back up your arguments...
Play poor to win sympathy...
You are an expat, a tax evader. And most probably so is the rest of your family...
(21) ynsere
Mar 16th, 2014 - 11:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0And what the heck is a Yorugua Euskaldun doing in them Ex-Pats meetings...?
Helping them out against the “Local Bureaucracy” I reckon....
@22
Mar 16th, 2014 - 11:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ha ha ha. Lol!
You know nothing about me or my family.
I do not make things up. You are in denial.
You only seek to divert because you can't face reality.
The reality of the Socialist train wreck that is VeneCuba.
The reality of the Socialist train wreck that will happen soon in Argentina.
Take Yankeeboy's advice and start buying Sugar and laundry powder.
I hope you like the taste of cat food old man. ...
@ 20 “Free energy” Stevie
Mar 16th, 2014 - 11:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Because you make thing up to back up your arguments...”
Just like you then!
So now we have the old “You are an expat, a tax evader. And most probably so is the rest of your family...” crap.
Have you NOTHING of merit to bring to any of your posts?
It’s getting sad to see you reduced to this nonsense. Anybody would “think” you are a sock puppet of The Lunatic of chew Butt.
You are an expat too, and a tax evader as well.
Mar 16th, 2014 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0There's no merit in stating the truth, Chris...
Stevie reduced to sniping from the sidelines, lashing out in the dark.
Mar 16th, 2014 - 11:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Doesn't have a clue. Lives in a dream world...
You two need to read Huffington Post.
Mar 16th, 2014 - 11:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ten things you could learn from Mujica...
:)
Big blackout in BA...again. Its not hot and its not cold though.
Mar 16th, 2014 - 12:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Socialism is marvelous
and I can't think of anywhere scarier that BA during a blackout. Maybe Caracas but I've never been there.
Stevie, MSNBC, HuffPo is not news, it is progressive ( in the worst meaning of the word) talking points made for perfect idiots such as yourself.
Well then, yanqui, have a look at BBC
Mar 16th, 2014 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20140306-the-worlds-most-ethical-countries-2014
I'm not saying you should come and visit, that would most probably kick us out of the list...
Caracas is seriously dangerous after dark with or without electric.
Mar 16th, 2014 - 12:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 024000 violent deaths in Venezuela 2013
96% of murders go unsolved.
Isn't Socialism just marvellous?
i like Uruguay. I considered moving there when BA got so dangerous. I decided against it since there is absolutely nothing to do. Its like living on an island it is just too remote for me.
Mar 16th, 2014 - 12:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think the current gov't is rotten though. The Prez is stupid and weak and has lowered the standards of living for a great many people since he has been in office. Luckily they'll be out of office soon enough and the next Prez can try to fix the horrible mess he is going to inherit.
That's your lot spreading “democracy”...
Mar 16th, 2014 - 12:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In Uruguay, the responsible for one of the rosaditos election campaign was caught paying chavs to burn containers. This had been going on for a while.
That's how you lot Work, divide and conquer...
We can do whatever we want whenever we want and there's nobody that can stop us.
Mar 16th, 2014 - 12:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What's your point?
You don't want to stop Putin?
Mar 16th, 2014 - 12:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He'll end up destroying his own economy over this silliness. Let it collapse. I couldn't care less.
Mar 16th, 2014 - 12:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://csis.org/multimedia/audio-citizen-security-argentina-trends-and-regional-implications
Take a listen to the HUGE increase in crime under the Ks.
Yes, more of your lot spreading “democracy”...
Mar 16th, 2014 - 12:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Apparently that idiot Maduro asked the USA for help with his civil unrest.
Mar 16th, 2014 - 01:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bahahahaha
It is fun to watch the firewall of Socialism collapse. Once Venezuela falls the rest of the Alba nations will be right behind them.
What the United States is doing in Eastern Europe? Are they crazy? They are supporting the Nazis and facing Russia? Yankees go home!
Mar 16th, 2014 - 01:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy8VaqtY_H8&list=LLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A
Yes yanqui, he asked him to show some decency and stop meddling...
Mar 16th, 2014 - 01:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Stevie, There is no legitimate source that thinks we are meddling in V.
Mar 16th, 2014 - 01:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think you are brain damaged.
If the brain Stevie is sick, your already dead.
Mar 16th, 2014 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U
The grand ol' U S of A no longer has much strategic, economic or political interest in Latin America. The US will soon be energy self sufficient.
Mar 16th, 2014 - 03:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Cold War is over.
Maduro didn't get the memo. (Probably due to paper shortages!!)
And we can't bloody wait for that to happen...
Mar 16th, 2014 - 05:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 26 “Free energy” Stevie
Mar 16th, 2014 - 05:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is that the best lie you can come up with.
You and ALL the regulars on here, including The Lunatic of Chew Butt, know that I am paying taxes on my pensions (the non-government ones, I don’t have to pay tax on that) and the rump of my money and assets in the UK. They also know I am paying all my taxes in Uruguay. I have no other assets world-wide.
So tell me o master of all knowledge, including how to break the Law of Conservation of Energy and defeat Entropy, just how am I evading taxes?
Come on, give us all the benefit of your superior “mind”.
I know why you left Britain, Chris.
Mar 16th, 2014 - 05:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Because you didn't want to contribute to that society you speak so fondly of with your own Money.
Instead, you choose to use it in Uruguay, although I do remember you talking about how you could sign up as a farmer even though you do nothing of the sort, in order to get access to free healthcare.
You are a parasite, regardless of what society you choose to live in...
@ 46 “Free energy” Stevie.
Mar 16th, 2014 - 08:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lying as usual.
What I actually said was that because I was 65 and no medical insurance would take me, if I started a business or a farm and paid BPS then the Ley (law) meant that all of them would have to take me, I would have my pick.
I would have course had to pay the monthly premiums, whatever they would be. NOTHING was said about free. Indeed ALL of them asked me if I had been employed or otherwise paid BPS. Not being a liar, I told the truth and was refused.
I was told CASMU might consider the fact that I had only just arrived in Uruguay and they took me on after examination, without additional premium. My wife, who is younger than me but with some controlled health problems was accepted by Mutone on very similar terms. She pays UYU$ 400 per month more than me.
Why is it you have to lie? Is it because your parents are liars: they must be, being ex-Tupas. You demonstrate on here the lies they have told you, so why wouldn’t you lie?
Sure Chris, is that something you lot learn on your expat meetings, how to abuse the Uruguayan Health care system?
Mar 16th, 2014 - 08:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Chris @ 47
Mar 16th, 2014 - 09:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't think you're abusing, Chris. After all you are paying VAT, capital tax, road tax, municipal property tax, the dooor-to-door contribution to the state primary school system and probably income tax ... a great deal more than non-residents pay.
@ 48 “Free energy” Stevie
Mar 16th, 2014 - 09:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Read it again please.
Where have I abused the Uruguayan Health Care System? I have never used it.
I use the PRIVATE system you plonker AND I pay the rate they ask of me. HTF is that abuse, even in your fantasy world?
Plus I have never gone to an ex-pats meeting since I came here. We did go to one at a lunch in MVD when we came over to see if we would like the country and fit in, but it was full of Yanks who did nothing but berate the States AND moan about the fact that Uruguay had the temerity to want tax on money earned on investments HERE.
Dear me. No wonder people consider you a lying idiot.
Well ChrisR at least you choose to live in Uruguay.
Mar 16th, 2014 - 10:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0More than we can say for Stevie.
Or has his story changed again recently?
Sure Chris, “farmer” boy...
Mar 16th, 2014 - 10:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm sure you do what you can to contribute to the nation you disregard, disrespect AND chose to live in...
Stevie,
Mar 17th, 2014 - 02:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0I just want to ask,
You advertised Mr. Ochsner's address in a large way, I'd like to know if you would be big enough now to disclose at least what country you live in?
Do you have a high regard for that country?
How is the political system of the country you live in?
What, specifically, is your main reason for not moving back to Uruguay?
Bushpilot
Mar 17th, 2014 - 02:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0That's not how Stevie operates. What do you expect from someone who equates respecting an entire country by having to agree and support its government.
@bushpilot: I am glad to let you know, that this is not my address anymore since 3 years.
Mar 17th, 2014 - 02:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0But the fact that MercoPress accepts and publishes all these personal remarks and conversations, which are not related at all to the article, of low level if not below the belt, is very questionable and disqualifying. I'll feel free to read other publications in the future that live up to a higher standard than MercoPress and some of its readers.
bushpilot
Mar 17th, 2014 - 09:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0But of course, I live in Uruguay at times, in Denmark at other times and mostly in between.
I do have high regards of the countries I live in, even though I don't agree with many of the decisions the elected governments take.
I also feel a sense of respect towards the countries I choose to live in myself and the leaders that represent them.
Personally, I can't stand Thorning-Schmidt, but you will never hear me trashtalk Denmark, like you expats trashtalk Uruguay.
I have no reason not to move back to Uruguay, as I did so many years ago.
Anything else you wonder about?
It would seem, Stevie, that there is more trash in UR to talk about.
Mar 17th, 2014 - 10:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Western Europe tends to bin its trash.
We will never alter the mindset of “Free energy” Stevie:
Mar 17th, 2014 - 12:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Don’t dare try to alter anything just because you live in the country: you are a parasite in the glorious body of the Tupas”
This seems to be the thinking throughout The Dark Country as well. Criticizing the government, even positively in respect to the Uruguayo people as I do, is tantamount to being a criminal.
He confuses my comments as not liking Uruguay. Nothing could be further from the truth, even the Policia Caminera (Highway Police) are great people I can assure you. Riding a really big powerful bike gets you pulled into the police roadside checks on a regular basis: they are after people who ride them without a license (it’s difficult for someone with a small moto to realise they have to take a proper test and they ride them anyway). Happened again yesterday (twice in two weeks). I knew what it was as soon as the first guy waved me in because I was not speeding. The older one turned out to be a Maldonado section moto instructor and the younger one (23 or so) had a Kwacker 600R. Yes, they checked my license and then it turned into a bike fest for them and me. In the end I asked the young one if he wanted a go on my bike. His face was a picture. He had to borrow my safety helmet and promised he would restrict the revs to 7,000. He came back with a smile one meter wide. I was with them about 35 mins. Now you tell me, where else in the world would you get that kind of response from the cops?
Great people, great country, crap Tupamaro commie bastard government who cannot run a whelk stall.
As Guzz, Stevie ranted and raved in a similar manner until he stopped posting at all for several months. This was just after his rants became extremely personal and completely without logical foundation, just as we see here.
I can only hope that this latest nonsense is the precursor to him not posting again.
You don't like personal attacks, Chris?
Mar 17th, 2014 - 12:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe you should stop attacking people personally.
Just a thought...
Stevie, I seriously don't understand how you think this is an acceptable way to live?
Mar 17th, 2014 - 12:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I really think you are brain damaged.
Alvaro Villarueda starts his morning the same way every day — putting in a call to his friend who has a friend who works at a Caracas, Venezuela, supermarket.
Today, he's looking for sugar, and he's asking his friend if he knows if any shipments have arrived. As he talks on the phone, his wife Lisbeth Nello, is in the kitchen.
There are 10 mouths to feed every day in this family — five of them children. The two youngest are still in diapers.
“The things that are the scarcest are actually what we need the most,” Nello says. “Flour, cooking oil, butter, milk, diapers. I spent last week hunting for diapers everywhere. The situation is really tough for basic goods.”
http://www.npr.org/2014/03/16/290516431/venezuela-in-turmoil-for-lack-of-flour-milk-and-diapers
I don't, hence USA really needs to bugger off...
Mar 17th, 2014 - 01:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What does the USA have to do with Venezuela's inflation rate and lack of basic food sundry items for their citizens?
Mar 17th, 2014 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Please explain
You are brain damaged.
The same thing USA always had, yesterday it was USAID and Mitrione, today it's a different name from a different “AID”...
Mar 17th, 2014 - 01:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That makes no sense, we have had little to no involvement in V since Chavez. This is all on the corrupt commie leaders you have long admired.
Mar 17th, 2014 - 01:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Fool that you are.
Yes, yanqui, USA never is involved....
Mar 17th, 2014 - 02:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Grab the violin and we'll sing together...
Well we might send some money now that collapse is imminent. Even the Cubans have made plans and filled all their oil storage.
Mar 17th, 2014 - 02:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am so happy this is happening!
I love when Socialism/Communism ends.
I am playing the violin for the disgusting killing of THE PEOPLE by the corrupted Pols.
May they all go out like Mussolini
BTW is the Chavez family still at a K compound in Southern Arg?
You really think the people will give up on their new-found freedom, don't you, yanqui?
Mar 17th, 2014 - 03:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0:)
I would guess you should ask the MILLIONS of people who have been demonstrating for a month if they have freedom.
Mar 17th, 2014 - 03:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Freedom to starve
Freedom to get gassed and killed by the corrupt Govt
Are those the freedoms you are talking about?
You are brain dead.
I hope to gosh you really don't have kids.
It would be ashame to burden them with the same misinformed bile your parents gave to you.
@67
Mar 17th, 2014 - 03:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0what is this “new-found freedom” ?
@56 Stevie
Mar 17th, 2014 - 04:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“But of course, I live in Uruguay at times, in Denmark at other times and mostly in between.”
Does your daughter move back and forth with you too?
You make hundreds of posts at this site, your presence here is going on two years. I always had the impression that you were born in a foreign country to Uruguayan parents, or lived in Europe since you were young.
I never thought you had spent any of your adult life in Uruguay. Not one of your hundreds and hundreds of posts made the slightest indication of that, not one of them.
Think went from making no mention of his presence in Argentina, to regularly mentioning it. He uses multiple identities as do you. I always thought both of you are in Europe.
Your English is perfect, it seems to be your first language. How did that happen living in Denmark and Uruguay?
My English is fine.
Mar 17th, 2014 - 05:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So is my Danish.
So is my Swedish.
But my Spanish is awesome...
;)
71. YOu must have missed this...
Mar 17th, 2014 - 05:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I would guess you should ask the MILLIONS of people who have been demonstrating for a month if they have freedom.
Freedom to starve
Freedom to get gassed and killed by the corrupt Govt
Are those the freedoms you are talking about?
You are brain dead.
I hope to gosh you really don't have kids.
It would be ashame to burden them with the same misinformed bile your parents gave to you.
@71 & 56 Stevie
Mar 17th, 2014 - 07:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Your english isn't just “fine”, it's regular American english, it's your native language.
You've never been to Uruguay have you?
Is it possible that Think and Stevie and Narine and Gringa and Guzz are the same person?
Comment removed by the editor.
Mar 17th, 2014 - 07:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(74) Stevie
Mar 17th, 2014 - 08:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Your Spanish is not soooo bad....
Nothing that a 6 months Re-Education Camp in Casupá couldn't correct.... :-)))
Swedish...: Ok
Danish....: “hjerner” og “engang”
Comment removed by the editor.
Mar 17th, 2014 - 08:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@76
Mar 18th, 2014 - 02:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0“you got me on the Danish, it is after all the latest, if not last, language I did learn...”
That's the last language you learned? You haven't been hearing it since you were born?
Right, and Narina is a gal from France.
Chose to move to Denmark and not Uruguay.
Mar 18th, 2014 - 03:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0The life of an ex-pat!
@78
Mar 18th, 2014 - 06:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0Should that not be?
“Parasite ex-pat”
lol!
You are the expats, ilsen.
Mar 18th, 2014 - 07:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0I never left my country by own will, and especially not to avoid taxes...
You chose not to return.
Mar 18th, 2014 - 09:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0So doesn't matter what you once were, you are now an expat.
I'm not an expat. I have homes in two countries because it suits my business and family. I don't avoid tax in either country.
Mar 18th, 2014 - 09:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0I actually contribute to the economy in two countries.
What have you done this week Stevie? Except sponged of off your European hosts.
Be a man. Go home to Latin America. Try and make a difference.
Stevie.s family fled, they were refugees so they were wards of the state probably the whole time he was growing up. He has no home, neither Denmark nor Uruguay. He doesn't fit in either place.
Mar 18th, 2014 - 12:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He's probably never been to Uruguay for fear of retribution.
He has concocted a world view based on lies and held corrupt dictators up as examples of all that is good.
That is why he's so nutty.
When does an expat become a non-expat?
Mar 18th, 2014 - 12:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When he takes citizenship and calls himself by his new nationality not his old.
Mar 18th, 2014 - 12:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So if Stevie actually already has Danish citizenship then he is an expat still because he doesn't call himself Danish, he calls himself Uruguayan.
@82 ilsen
Mar 18th, 2014 - 12:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In the late 80s early 90s the adult children of exiles started returning. There were all sorts of incentives here in Chile and some countries, like Sweden even provided financial support for their “retornados” en Chile.
Of all the retornados the Scandies were the least able to adapt to life here and after the party ended, they all headed back. The reality was that life was much tougher here than there and the pull of an easier life was stronger than the nostalgia for their parent's homeland.
85. It's actually worse than that he bounces back and forth on nationality depending on what he wants to argue.
Mar 18th, 2014 - 12:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I seriously doubt he's ever been to Uruguay.
It's probably not too safe there for his ilk.
Darn you are nosey... I got double citizenship, and none of them are Danish.
Mar 18th, 2014 - 01:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I returned to Uruguay as a kid when the military left power.
Since then I come and go as it pleases me, and imagine, I don't feel any need to either ask you, nor throw shite at the nations that made me what I am.
Call me whatever rocks your boat, you bunch of old, sad expats...
As for Condorito, you sure about that? Engler? Marenales? Rosencof?
I'd say the Scandies retornados are some of the proudest, well educated retornados around.
Especially Engler.
USA loves Engler...
;)
88. I find it fascinating you align yourself with the worst scum of the world. You really have serious mental problems.
Mar 18th, 2014 - 02:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@88
Mar 18th, 2014 - 02:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Since then I come and go as it pleases me,”
You've already said this,
”I live in Uruguay at times, in Denmark at other times and mostly in between.”
and like I responded the last time, not one of your hundreds and hundreds of posts give any small indication that you have been in Uruguay for many, many years. Not since you were little at least.
You are not a retornado by any means, life is nicer in Scandinavia for you, that is why you stay there, you are Scandinavian now.
I don't know anything about the Danish culture or its politics, are the Danes similarly socialist as the Uruguayans are?
No bushpilot, my posts indicates I've been in Yemen...
Mar 18th, 2014 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You don't only know anything about Denmark. That non-knowledge is extended to cover most countries in the World, including every SA nation...
And no, Danish socialists are soft, so soft...
@91
Mar 18th, 2014 - 03:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Come on now! How can you criticize my lack of knowledge of South America?
When was the last time you were in SA?
Mainly because you know nothing about SA in particular, bushpilot, a direct result of your ignorance of world matters in general...
Mar 18th, 2014 - 04:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When as the last time you were in Rwanda?
Rwanda?
Mar 18th, 2014 - 04:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Rwanda???????????
Mar 18th, 2014 - 04:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Rwanda no?
Mar 18th, 2014 - 05:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How about Mozambique then?
When was the last time you were in Mozambique?
Some pedant is using the ambiguity of 'S.A.' to confuse South America with South Africa.
Mar 18th, 2014 - 05:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There is a similarity in that both Rwanda and much of South America have suffered genocides,
but the racial mix of North East Brasil is more like Rwanda than like the rest of South America. I like it.
Rwanda is in South Africa?
Mar 18th, 2014 - 06:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Darn...
“Free energy” Stevie has a much simpler problem that we all see from time to time with guys who cannot tell their arse from their elbow and in consequence end up hopelessly muddled: his wife wears the trousers.
Mar 18th, 2014 - 06:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She must do otherwise “Free energy” Stevie would be back in the golden land of the Tupamaros, he may even have been the president now. He couldn’t be any worse than “No Money Pepe” because he is completely bereft of any merit at all.
Yes, “Free energy” Stevie is pussy whipped alright.
I am waiting for the announcement that Stockholm is going to award him the Prize for physics. If he can break the Law on the Conservation of Energy and defeat entropy at the same time which he must have done to discover “Free energy”, then he must be a Master of the Universe!
#98
Mar 18th, 2014 - 07:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good reposte, Stevie :-)
#100
Mar 18th, 2014 - 07:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good geograhics, Geoff :-)
Automated Response:
Mar 19th, 2014 - 01:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0@ReallyBoringStevie
Your responses have no value.
Thank you for reading this message.
What message?
Mar 19th, 2014 - 05:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0That dude said a lot of words... catagorically rejected ideas, but never uttered a single word on what his plan actually is - except keep on doing the same old spending thing.
Mar 21st, 2014 - 03:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0For a senior level Goverment person, you'd think he would at least give some credibility to the idea that Govt spending can impact inflation.
Heck, when the US went into recession, we increased government spending to get us out. Now that we are almost recovered, we are cutting back that spending and tightening our monetary policies so that the increased spending doesn't cause excessive inflation. Excessive as in over 2 or 3 percent annually.
But that's ok, Mr. Astori is probably a lot smarter then US economists... Although you couldn't tell by his comments...
Commenting for this story is now closed.
If you have a Facebook account, become a fan and comment on our Facebook Page!