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Mujica, Latin America's most original leader according to The Economist
Under the heading of “The sage of Montevideo”, The Economist visited the Uruguayan president at his farmhouse in the outskirts of Montevideo where they had a long chat. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesMujica has pulled the wool over the eyes of Lefties from Timbuktu to Kalamazoo .
Aug 15th, 2014 - 07:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0If originality means unkempt with a vagrants appearence, then I guess he is very original.
Aug 15th, 2014 - 01:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Once a commie is all ways a commie
Aug 15th, 2014 - 01:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A pure democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
Aug 15th, 2014 - 02:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A government that represents the people, respecting property rights, individual liberties, low taxation, entrepreneurship and not Multi-national Corporate special interests is a government of a country that can thrive.
All companies have special interest not just the multinational you cannot have one without the other that is capitalism does anybody in Latin America have the balls to said capitalism is the only way to thrive take a look at the commies in south America none of the economies are thriving
Aug 15th, 2014 - 03:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“there is no education at the second kick of the mule”
Most original can means the worst, too.....!!!
Aug 15th, 2014 - 06:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It´s wolf undercover as a sheep.....pure marxist garbage....!!!
@ 4 Jbrenn
Aug 15th, 2014 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So you don’t live in Uruguay then?
Here is my response to your little ditty and BTW I live in and hold a legal residency of Uruguay:
“A government that represents the people, respecting property rights, individual liberties,”
This government does not represent the majority of the people, especially wealth making commercial businesses.
“low taxation,”
PMSL at this one, how little you know!
Even the lowest paid workers have to find 40% out of their meagre earnings so ‘No Money Pepe’ can give the idle poor a free ‘bag’ of money, which they spend on LED TV’s in the main part before wasting it on food for their children.
The economy cannot handle any more rises in tax: there are only 3,286,314 of us in the country; men, women and children. 600,000 (what the Broad fraud admit to anyway) of these work for the government, can you credit that? So how many working age people can work for private businesses, you know these don’t you: they are the ones (and investors like me) that pay for all these government muppets.
“entrepreneurship”
How does anyone become an entrepreneur in Uruguay? The reality is they don’t: the system of taxes, inspections, licenses to fart (it seems that way) and all this before income tax AND don’t forget the dead hand of the unions that have got Pepe and his gang by the testicles with all the restrictive practices and protectionist laws against employers.
“and not Multi-national Corporate special interests” I wish we had a few, at least they would help to pay for the fiscal drag of all the muppets.
“is a government of a country that can thrive.”
THRIVE, are you for real? Uruguay is staggering from one financial disaster to another in all the government monopolies which are stuffed full by the cronies of Pepe, et al. Pepe has already spent the wealth of the next three generations with all his largesse to the ‘poor’.
Just remember that the 'taxes' paid by government 'workers' are in fact funded by the private sector.
I don't see many companies pulling out of Uruguay becouse they do not make any money; So according to you an employee should be happy earning two hundred dollars a month.(And sometimes less )
Aug 16th, 2014 - 02:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yorugua @ 8.
Aug 17th, 2014 - 11:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This afternoon I had a chat with a Cuban lady who attends the shop inside the bus terminal in Piriápolis. She seems happy enough with her USD 500/month in Uruguay, as opposed to USD 30/month working as a chemical engineer in her home country.
By the way, she can't get a job here within her profession. Seems her Cuban training is well below international standards.
It seems to be a fact of political life, that the most incompetent presidents on earth have obviously to show at least “some” originality.
Aug 19th, 2014 - 03:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The world's most competent president is probably Switzerland's- because you and I have no idea what his (or her) name is.
Elementary, my dear friend,
Philippe
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