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Mujica says people who like money too much must be kicked out of politics
Uruguayan president Jose Mujica said that the people “who like money too much must be kicked out of politics” because they are a 'real danger' and can get confused with what is the prospect of “a good government”, and make citizens non believers in the system. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesSuch a blatant attack on the Argentine president.
Oct 23rd, 2014 - 07:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder when they will call in the Uruguayan ambassador?
@1 My thoughts exactly...
Oct 23rd, 2014 - 10:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0I rather like this bloke...
@ 2 Frank
Oct 23rd, 2014 - 12:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Really?
This character has a famous saying: “I tell you this while I tell you the other”.
Nobody knows WTF he means by that. And neither does he.
His ‘bestist’ mate from when they were killing policemen and robbing banks for living money (which is why he once claimed massive inflation never bothered him) managed to squirrel money away whilst a 'minister'. His excuse is other people took it, yeah.
Sendic, another of the Broad Fraud, 'lost' U$D300M while he was in charge of ANCAP, the government monopoly fuels supplier: he is now running with Vasquez for election as VP.
Just to flesh that out for you, there are only 3,286,314 of us in Uruguay, there are 600,000 government employees (Govt data, so probably low) and every bit of money they have to live on (their wages) comes from tax payers. Every man, woman and child has therefore been robbed to the amount of U$D 1,116 or
UY Pesos 26,800. A very good job for the ordinary citizen pays UY$5,000 per week so they are working more than five weeks for the Sendic crook for no pay. How would you like to work for five weeks for nothing and still owe the taxman?
Pepe has been an unmitigated disaster by taking bonds to cover his profligate spending; thereby ensuring at least three generations will be in debt: the economy was in balance when Vasquez left it.
GO, GO, POU.
And what about your boss Castro in the 1970s ??
Oct 23rd, 2014 - 12:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Fue Cuba” I cant wait for this book to come to my shelf.
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1737790-cuando-el-castrismo-quiso-conquistar-america-latina
That headline would mean getting rid over the entire Argentine government !!!
Oct 23rd, 2014 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”Freedom means having time to live that which motivates us”, he concluded.
Oct 23rd, 2014 - 01:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So long as what motivates a person is approved by him. When he doesn't approve, you get denied an opportunity to participte in politics.
Typical communist Freedom.
But what Mujica doesn't say is that people that like too much power and stay for decades in office (bureaucrats) should also be kicked out of politics.
Oct 23rd, 2014 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@3. ChrisR. In the local languages, how does one say “Lying, thieving, two-faced, deviant, pendulous, ass-licking, cretinous, treacherous turd”?
Oct 23rd, 2014 - 03:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 8 Conqueror
Oct 23rd, 2014 - 04:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't know, there are too many 'bad' words that I have yet to learn in the make up.
Why, is that what you think of me?
@3 Oh...... and he looks like such a nice old chap....
Oct 23rd, 2014 - 07:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 10 Frank
Oct 23rd, 2014 - 08:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't worry, I got 'took' too when we came over to Uruguay to check it out.
I fell for the 'old chap' persona and was looking forward to a new start for the country when he won the presidency. You couldn't walk across the main Rambla (sea front road) for cars blaring their horns (illegal) and travelling in convoys (also Illegal) when the results were posted.
We came back to live here and for the first few months everything was great, or so it seemed. Then the nonsense started.
Pepe got bamboozled by the Chinese into pushing the passenger road transport into battery driven vehicles. He even got the Owner and Chief Executive, Buquebus: Juan Carlos López Mena to publically back his idea.
I had already done the calculations and realised it would never work as they said: coaches would be breaking down due to battery exhaustion before they got halfway from MVD to PdE. I suspect that Mena got one of his own people to check it out and that sunk it. The normal layman and especially illiterate and innumerate people such as Pepe just don’t understand the concept of energy density of the various fuels we have available and its importance to our lives, especially for transport vehicles.
The Uruguayo are lovely people but many of them never finish school and leave at the age of 15 YO and then of course they never get in front of the curve. To these people Pepe seems just like them and is therefore exactly what the country needed. they clearly never thought what it was like to ‘rule’ a country of only just over 3 million but why should they, they have never run a piss-up in a brewery?
GO, GO, POU!
@7. You have me confused. What is a bureaucrat doing in politics? There should be a considerable difference between the two. A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy. A bureaucracy is “a body of non-elective government officials” and/or “an administrative policy-making group”. Politics, on the other hand, is the practice and theory of influencing other people on a global, civic or individual level. Can you see the difference? No 'bureaucrat' should ever be involved in politics.
Oct 25th, 2014 - 09:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0@9. I don't think so. Unless you want to prove me wrong. I was thinking of someone else. How about I give clues? A terrorist who becomes the incumbent of a high office in the relevant country. Someone who lives 'austerely' on seventy hectares of land. That's about 173 acres. Wonder how someone living 'austerely' gets to use several tractors? Pendulous is obvious. Check the picture. What sort of toad rushes off to another country's capital at a snap of appropriate fingers? Does the individual I'm thinking of have anything between his ears? Trying to make one's country the 24th province of another, in fact if not in name, surely counts as treachery? Who am I thinking of? Incidentally, I am reminded of Papa Doc Duvalier, who infamously said “I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people.” Who else just said something similar?
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