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Latam countries the happiest, according to Gallup's Positive Experience Index
People in Latin America are the most likely in the world to experience a lot of positive emotions on a daily basis, according to Gallup's Positive Experience Index. In fact, for the first time in Gallup's 10-year history of global tracking, all of the top 10 countries with the highest Positive Experience Index scores are in Latin America. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThis could be just about right... We always get told by the lot, in an angry and upset manner, how backwards and non developed we are.
Apr 01st, 2015 - 09:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's ok, we say with a smile :)
I hope you are still smiling when you run out of other peoples money.
Apr 01st, 2015 - 09:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0#1
Apr 01st, 2015 - 09:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0It could be Fools Paradise. I am sure that N.Korea would come out top in this survey.
I pay more in taxes than you earn, cronie...
Apr 01st, 2015 - 09:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0#3 Clyde
Apr 01st, 2015 - 09:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0Spot on!
Ask the crowds of people waiting to buy toilet paper ...
And still you lot are upset, having toilet paper and all....
Apr 01st, 2015 - 09:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Does it scratch, mayhap?
We wake up in the morning with the hiss of the birds, the morning breeze coming through the window, the sweet smell of jasmine in our backyard and the sun stealthily invading our rooms.
Apr 01st, 2015 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Impossible, absolutely impossible not to be happy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y9tK60doFI
I'm glad Stevie finds country to country comparison surveys valid, worthwhile and useful.
Apr 01st, 2015 - 10:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0I do? I was merely wondering if the toilet paper scratches your newly awoken arse, thus effectively destroying your days....
Apr 01st, 2015 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1, 4, 6, 7. 'Viveza criolla' in a number of latam countries. 'jeitinho brasileiro' in Brazil.
Apr 01st, 2015 - 10:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0'the line of least resistance and ignoring rules, a lack of sense of responsibility and consideration for others'.
lack of respect for others and indifference to the common good in a framework of individual interests.
political corruption, which extends in all institutions, in the form of perks, direct appropriation of public funds, favoritism, nepotism, misallocation of state resources, etc.
extreme individualism, with mistrust of others and little ability to partner and cooperate in community goals. (Interpersonal trust is a key component of social capital, which is crucial for economic development and proper functioning of democratic institutions.)
Anomie or weakening of the common morality, and social deviance as behavior that departs from generally accepted standards in society.
The habit of blaming problems on others, thereby encouraging paranoia and granting a permit to self-indulgence.
Easy to be 'happy' when you can look back on all the occasions that you've conned, scammed, stolen, cheated, lied, bullied, raped, killed someone and got away with it. Now let's think about 'Stevie' and 'Brasiliero'. Why are they 'really' so happy. Wouldn't expect them to publicly admit to rape and/or murder. But have they?
conq
Apr 01st, 2015 - 10:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0Buy soft.
Triple layer.
Ooh Brasileiro loves these comparisons too.
Apr 01st, 2015 - 11:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0They must be so valid! It's amazing.
You think AIIB will follow S&P, Skip?
Apr 01st, 2015 - 11:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0NDB will check the mood of Moody's?
;)
@12 Skip
Apr 01st, 2015 - 11:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks!
@13 Stevie
Welcome back!
No. We got rid of the scratchy stuff in about 1958. Now we have double quilted as soft as a cloud.
Apr 01st, 2015 - 12:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0//www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDXE-02VRNs
From my own observations over the years it hold true that we enjoy life more than people in Europe. And that the peoples of the north of the continent have a happier demeanour than in the southern cone. I have often wondered about it.
Apr 01st, 2015 - 01:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0IMO the welfare systems in Europe take you to a “comfortably numb” state. Where we don't have such systems we rely on close links with friends and family. Links that yield happiness on a daily basis.
Interesting that Brasil is so low. Frustrated aspirations to be a world power? Declining football status? Increased industrialization?
Ignorance is bliss.
Apr 01st, 2015 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4 stevie
Apr 01st, 2015 - 02:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I pay more in taxes than you earn, cronie...”
Bahaha
A latam that pays taxes? Comedy genius. Good thing it's April fools day, otherwise I might have believed you..
I care so much what you believe McCool.
Apr 01st, 2015 - 02:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I really do.
Clearly you do otherwise you wouldn't of replied.
Apr 01st, 2015 - 02:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Please tell me some more jokes about how hard working you all are. Or maybe about how honest you all are. pleeeease...
This text is another tribute to how much I truly care.
Apr 01st, 2015 - 02:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The sum of them, my manifest...
Oooh stevie sounds a little butthurt.
Apr 01st, 2015 - 02:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps you should take the same advice you gave to conqueror...
Buy soft.
Triple layer.
;)
Cheers :)
Apr 01st, 2015 - 02:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You're very welcome :)
Apr 01st, 2015 - 03:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0:)
Apr 01st, 2015 - 04:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0According to this poll, I'm happier that you.
Statistically, that could very much be right now....
:))
I'm surprised Argentina is featured. All one has to do is mention the Falklands and 10,000 raving lunatics take to the streets!
Apr 01st, 2015 - 04:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@25 stevie
Apr 01st, 2015 - 04:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0According to another poll you're also more dishonest than me :)
Take from that what you will. ;)
According to another poll, you have a bigger car than me :)))))
Apr 01st, 2015 - 04:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@11, 13, 14, 19, 21, 23, 25.
Apr 01st, 2015 - 04:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Anybody believe 'Stevie' pays anything for anything. Don't we have him tagged as a La Campora or Quebracho thug? Or an educationally sub-normal blood-sucking, brainless student?
C'mon 'Stevie', where did you learn about soft, triple layer? We have no evidence that argies use anything except their hands. Certainly the animals sent to the Falklands in 1982 didn't know what it was. Defecating in the post office. In people's homes, in their beds, in their baths on their furniture. Shitty argies.
Just those examples should be enough to ban argies from the Islands. Not human. Deal with them under the heading of 'animal imports'. Full 'health' checks just like cattle, biopsies, a kilo should be enough. Samples, sterilised extraction equipment. As per milking, but much stronger. Drain them. Shouldn't take long. And then shoot them!
conq
Apr 01st, 2015 - 04:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You did it! You put 7 numbers in the right order!!
Latam countries the most gullible...?
Apr 01st, 2015 - 04:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@30. Then send me the US$2 billion. None of those filthy pesos. Are they three-ply? Then you can use them to wipe your mouth.
Apr 01st, 2015 - 05:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@28 stevie
Apr 01st, 2015 - 05:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sounds like you've got a touch of the green eyed monster. :)
Hahahaha
Apr 01st, 2015 - 05:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It does, doesn't it?
Hahahaha!!!
I think that like a child, minimal education and a lack of understanding of the real world, you can spend your days quite happy. After all, you can't miss what you never had.
Apr 01st, 2015 - 06:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 33 McCool
Apr 01st, 2015 - 06:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Argieuruguayo IS a green-eyed monster masquerading as a son of a cowardly Tupas couple who ran away when the 'dream' turned into the nightmare reality that is was always bound to be.
The rest of the citizens of Uruguay are still paying for sitting on their hands and believing all the lies these twats spouted instead of executing them all for sedition.
33,36
Apr 01st, 2015 - 06:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Stevie lives in SA fool's paradise.
He started off relating “his” experiences as a Supa Tupa in the 70's, gleefully regaling us with tales of torturing Mitrione, a“ US operative” or agent, or provocateur, or spy, or something...
Stevie freely shared 'his' joyful experience of degrading the man until he wet himself, and pleaded for his life.
When that met with disdain, and he could no longer defend or answer other questions, he told us his parents were the Tupas, not him.
Clearly, he derived a lot of joy from posing as a fantasy character.
Probably doing the same thing now.
Stevie, living in a fantasy.
Britworker, according to your logic, your superior education and vast understanding somehow makes you.... sadder...
Apr 01st, 2015 - 06:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Like Chris here, he is still sad as usual...
Stevie and brasshole have formed a bond....funny how shit sticks to shit...
Apr 01st, 2015 - 10:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You guys will never be happy of you continue swearing like that...
Apr 01st, 2015 - 10:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I ain't Happy.....
Apr 01st, 2015 - 11:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwTMhPA4LZ4
I ain't Unhappy......
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 12:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Good music and pretty SA women.....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LXfGrMpPqNk
@42 Think
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 12:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Beautiful vídeo!
@10
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 01:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0You know how “viveza criolla” is called in English?
The British Empire.
44 SNotty
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 02:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0What do you Call it when Timmerman betrays his peoples??
Stevie says:
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 10:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0“According to this poll, I'm happier that you.”
I say:
“According to this poll, I'm happier that you.”
I'm happy for you!
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 10:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0(46) Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo....
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 10:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0I say...:
Stevie has told us repeatedly that he is currently residing in Denmark...
That makes him happier than you...
http://www.gallup.com/poll/169322/people-worldwide-reporting-lot-positive-emotions.aspx
By the way...
I have visited 28 of the top 30 happiest Countries...., resided long term in 6 of them.... and live currently in the 20th happiest....
What about you, sweety?
(47) Stevie
Hasta la Victoria.... Siempre.
Wait and watch, hermano Think.
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0My guess is that there's going to be a proper push for Banco del Sur and NDB (BRICS Bank), as well as we will see a huge raise in US Treasury Bond interests. Only to make them competible.
Hasta la victoria siempre!
HaHa! April fools
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 01:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@44. If you 'Think'. The British Empire brought many down out of the trees, up out of the muck and slime, taught civilisation, morals, principles, responsibility. Regrettably, south america preferred belligerence, corruption, criminality, depravity, genocide, ignorance, incompetence, larceny, mendacity, rapacity, xenophobia. Sooner or later the current invaders will have to be removed and the continent repopulated. Indigenous people first. The government of the future. Once the 'occupiers' have been removed or reduced to their proper place.
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 02:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@48, 49. Pay your debts. No 'victoria' until you do. Here's the deal. Pay NML et al. Pay the Paris Club. Pay every outstanding judgment against argieland. Pay reparations to the Falkland Islands (US$200 billion), Uruguay (US$100 billion), Chile (US$75 billion or more). Reparations to the UK (US$100 billion). Mine clearance (US$1 billion).
In the meantime, your useless 'country' is falling apart. And we care? No, we don't. For your many crimes we want to see you below subsistence level. We want to see famine, starvation, bare survival. We want to see your towns crumble. We want to watch you pay, in pain, everything you have done in the last 180 years. We want to watch you suffer. Let's see the elderly, the young, the weak die in the streets. See, we've been there. We learned. And you need to learn. By dying. By the tens or hundreds of thousands.
Pay your debts.
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 02:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 03 Trillion
Or join the Chinese boat.
Oh wait, you already did....
Menwhile in the real world Argies so sad, depressed and scared of British military power. Ha ha ha
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sytpeyNDmKU
So sad reading post from some brits still living in fantasyLand...
I will recommend you to visit your fellow psychiatrist he will tell you that you suffer from insecure personality due to lack of personal archivements.
I understand that could be so hard to live with a pension that cannot help you to get your basics needs or that you cannot face to pay your gas bill or that you are in the poverty line surviving from handouts from the remaining labour state, but come on! you cannot blame the rest of the world for your own failure. Do ya?
Think for a while how your own decisions and lazy acttitude have ruined your nation...
Once a big economic and military power dominating the seas and now reduced to a province of Germany and France that cannot threat even Paraguay.
Ok I kown that this could upset anyone but come one boys this is as result of your own behave, no others to blame but you...
Think about it, do you?
Can anyone translate the post @53 for me please? Also not sure why they posted a YouTube link to a weird music video.
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 04:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Of course mate, that means that your little an irrelent Island (UK) is now a province of Germany and France. And that you are so irrelevant that you cannot threat even Paraguay.
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 05:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry I cannot translate it into Paki language for your better understanding...
#55
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 05:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Irrelent ? Ask Troll tit for some help with your English.
If the UK didn't bother you then you would not post here....BUT IT DOES..
Why should we threaten little Paraguay ? It's only bullies like Argentina that pick on small defenceless countries. Anyway, I like their music having heard it in the 1950's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7kpL5wk-XE
@55
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Again, I have no idea what you're talking about. Does it have anything to do with this thread? Is it the ramblings of a crazy person? I don't know.
@clyde15
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 06:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“If the UK didn't bother you then you would not post here”
Have you become a province of Uruguay also and I didn't know it?
Bloddy 'ell mate when that happened?
Clyde this is a Uruguayan based website and if you only read tyhe stuff below te Logo of Mercopress, says clearly South Atlantic News Agency and the news and articles are sopuse to be about Mercosur or Mercosul or MecaSouth, but nothing realated to Ukistan.
How cares about CaMorn or your royal navy? none
In fact I would change the “MercoPress” for the “Cristina & Dilma Dairly News”...
About the “Irrelent” who cares? Who will bother to make check spelling over a language that is becoming more and more irrelevant every minute?
I will be so concern if I will be you about the spelling in Pakistani, Polish, etc?
Are you?
How is spelled “Irrelevant” in Pakistani?
can you see? you don't know and is the most popular langauge in Britanistan...
“DanyBerger” is a Troll with an anti-UK bent, whose is trying to divert and distract arguments away from the issues of LATAM, period.
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 06:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@59
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 06:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yeah I know. I just wanted him/her to keep posting so I could have a laugh at his/hers spelling mistakes lol.
#58
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 07:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0PATHETIC...even for a paid up Troll.
You may have noticed...or not, that this is an English speaking site.
One must presume from this that they wish comments in English on the topics of which many are about the Falklands or have British slant.
So one must surmise that they welcome posts from native English speakers
I have never come across an article about UKISTAN. I do see many about ARGENCHINA so forget the English language that you murder and start learning Chinese from your new masters. It will be your imposed language in Hepatia's famous ”25 years.
Until then, there is a Spanish language Mercopress, to which you are more than welcome to contribute your edifying thoughts.
Nah, this is a Uruguayan site, alright.
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 07:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Based in Montevideo.
Britain has nothing to do with it. Nor with the South Atlantic.
62 STEVIE
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 07:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What happened to you, Nostrils, and the other paranoid Trolls claiming it was run by MI6 to collect IP addresses on pro-K Trolls and enemies of Britaimn like Voicey 'and' Think???
This is funnier?
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@58 ShittyBurger,
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 09:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0pls don't stop posting... your belligerant ' acttitude”, plus your flagrant ignorance and the stupid content of your posts, make me 'happy' when I read them.....I need something laugh about in this horrible, mean world, where only 'latino-americanos' are happy....
Aaaah so according to Think Stevie lives in Denmark? Doubtful that Stevie will ever say so as he never has up until now. Common occurrence on here for people that feel their choice of country reflects on them badly. Therefore as he continues to verbally claim he is Uruguayan and at random and opportune times in Uruguay he is therefore not eligible for Danish happiness just Uruguayan. And considering Uruguay is next to Argentina there is no chance of attaining Denmark's rating.
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 10:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“By the way...
I have visited 28 of the top 30 happiest Countries...., resided long term in 6 of them.... and live currently in the 20th happiest....
What about you, sweety?”
Sweety? Errrr anyway...
Actually you are in living in the equal 19th happiest not 20th. I'm sure you can be forgiven due to your Argentinean education. But I'm living in the equal 15th.
And I may have only visited 14 of the top 30 and resided long term in 6 of them as well, but then I'm less than half your age. Your adventures are behind you while I have decades of them in front of me.
Who knows, my 7th country might just be Argentina. It's so cheap now and some more Aussies might help you jump a rank or two.
Ok guys I understand...
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 10:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You didn't like the musik
Let's try with something more classic...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTFUM4Uh_6Y
Aussie, you say?
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 10:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Let me check.... Yes, you guys signed too.
Despite USA telling you not to.
Nice!
62
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 11:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nothing ....are you sure, you do realise that Mercopress publishes Penguin News....
Can't tell you how the setup is, Voice, I would get my account banned....
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 11:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I know how the set up is Stevie and I know who really founded and who the sponsors are...but I would also get my account blocked...
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 12:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Very well buried and it took a lot of digging...
I've already been blocked once so I'll leave it and just smirk to myself...;-)))
Haha!
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 12:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Who has a Permanant Seat on the UN Security Council?
Who is a Nuclear Power?
Who is one of the Top Five Economies in The World?
Who has the Best Military in The World?
Who is known as, The Mother of All Parliaments?
Who can shit on Argentina from a missile site in Scotland?
haha!
Who has the ability to turn Buenos Aires into a wasteland without leaving their comfort of Chesterfield Sofas and decent Single Malts?
Just by asking their Butler, to make it happen?
You guys in LatAm, really don't have a clue.
meanwhile, I am off to the Spa, in Knightsbridge, to be pampered.
Maybe I will think of you, maybe not!
lol!
...get a Brazilian while you are at it...get rid of that Ginger....
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 12:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0And still you are statistically sadder... And uglier too...
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 12:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0You think they depend on eachother, or is it more of a action-reaction kind og state?
You know, a pig is an animal, but not all animal are pigs.
Would make sense...
@67
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 12:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Belíssimo! Bravíssimo!
Brasileiro! Hermano!
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 12:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0A hug for the Patria Grande.
Yes, Stevie. South America is our homeland. Patria Grande!
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 01:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sistah's!
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 02:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0As Argentina along with it's neighbours, seems to be one of the happiest countries on earth, I can only assume that the situation in the Falklands does not cause them any concern. In fact, if they are SO happy, they must be rejoicing in the islanders association with the UK and the misery that this enforced dependence has brought them. How they must be envious of the happy souls inhabiting that paradise hundred of miles to the west.
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 08:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0What paradise?
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 10:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0#80
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 12:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Should be “ How the islanders must be envious of the happy souls inhabiting that paradise hundred of miles to the west”.
@67 DanyBerger
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 12:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I wish you watched this video with the Brazilian tenor Thiago Arancam. He has an unmistakable talent!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uz3oh8g1eo
The remembrance day being the equivalent to our carnaval, I can only agree with you, Clyde....
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This study is an eye-opener about human nature that can teach a thing or two on how to set up our life goals.
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 02:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It provides some rationality to what I experienced with some of the poorest families in marginal areas of my Argentine home country: people with almost nothing would share the little they had, giving you a smile on top of that.
However, the above paragraph should not be taken as a glorification of poverty: it would just warn us that accumulating material riches is not a sure path to happiness without negating that improvement of human's life conditions is a legitimate goal.
Of course, the article causes constipated reactions from those who believe their countries' annual GDP is enough to make them superior.
Just a couple of samples (be warned--it may cloud your day):
#51 Conqueror, to Argentines:
“We want to watch you suffer. Let's see the elderly, the young, the weak die in the streets...you need to learn. By dying. By the tens or hundreds of thousands.”
Or see #72 ilsen:
“Who has the ability to turn Buenos Aires into a wasteland without leaving their comfort of Chesterfield Sofas and decent Single Malts?”
Priceless. Makes you wonder what they eat for breakfast.
On the other hand, if you want to have a heartily laugh and your blood pressure go down, read Stevie's posts.
Enrique,
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 07:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We DO get a good laff from Stevie's posts! :-)
@79 Clyde
“... the happy souls inhabiting that paradise hundred of miles to the WEST”
@80 STEVIE
“What paradise?”
LOL !!!
You laugh already... Difference is your laughter is some three days delayed, depending on the difficulty.
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 08:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But, as they say, the one that laughs last...
@Brasileiro
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 09:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I did!
Amazing voice!
Ridi Pagliaccio haha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NlYuzJfYC0
@Ilsen
Suppose that all you say is true...
You keep saying that those Islands are British territory, right?
So despite your “nuclear power”, your permant seat in UN SC, and your special relationship with US as you like to say and your GDP, Argentina had invaded part of Brintain in 1982 according with your British gov point of view...
Can you see? You don't have enougth deterrant power
And if you carryout any nuclear strike over America soil (continent) the first to kick your ass will be the Americans like happened with your affair in the Suez canale. Do you remember when Uncle Sam (Eisenhower) kicked your ass and send you back home?
Because you are not allowed to do that especially with weapons borrowed from US.
Because this will give Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, etc. the perfect excuse to assemble their owns made in SA nukes able to strike any country in the world and that will erode the balance of power in the region that have enjoyed for so long US and that have contributed to them to become a global power.
Basic geopolitics of how to survive in a dangerous world and keeping alive as a global power...
Dany
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 11:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What would you know about being a global power?
BTW,
Argentina will belong to China in the next 25 years.
Calm down Dany, no one is using nuclear weapons on Argentina except for Conq in his alcohol induced wet dreams.
Apr 04th, 2015 - 05:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina just doesn't rank as important enough. But no matter how little deterrent power the UK has, it still managed to kick your arise so comprehensively from half way around the world that Argnetina is still crying about it 33 years later.
And still they are happier than you... Crying and all...
Apr 04th, 2015 - 08:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0Of course Argentina is happy, they are getting away from repaying billions of dollars in debt by refusing to do so.
Apr 04th, 2015 - 08:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0You lot are getting away with Trillions... You should be dancing in the local fountain, according to your logic...
Apr 04th, 2015 - 08:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0The difference being that WE will pay it back....a concept unknown in Argentinian circles.
Apr 04th, 2015 - 09:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Have you been up all night as I see that your post is timed at 0853 which is 0553 in Argentina/Uruguay..
You wont pay back, because you can't. Or you wouldn't have budget defecits every single gear. This included.
Apr 04th, 2015 - 09:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0A debt that is being paid off, shrinks. It doesn't expand.
Very, very simple maths.
@87 Dany
Apr 04th, 2015 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks!
@94 Stevie
The castles of these guys were built with sea sand, Stevie. The time of them is very close.
#94
Apr 04th, 2015 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Has anyone foreclosed on the debt ? They are getting paid interest on the loan.
Has the country ever defaulted on a debt.
It would seem that our creditors are happy with the arrangement OR credit would dry up.
This does not seem to be the case with Argentina. The attitude there is that the mugs lent us money and then expect it to be repaid ?
That's not in our national psyche....it must have been a free gift and now they change the rules.
#95
Another financial genius at work I see.
Brazil
the country's worst year in more than two decades.
Brazil's economy will contract 0.5% in 2015 and inflation will climb to 7.9%
etc
If our castles are built of sea sand then yours are made of hot air.
@96
Apr 04th, 2015 - 01:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0After 15 years of growth it is natural that there is a readjustment of the economy, but nothing as worrying as the situation of Western.
The cleaning we are doing will give us growth for over a decade. In addition, our economy is moving away from Western decadence and seeking alternatives in the world's most competitive, less debt and with strong national states.
There is no escaping the terrible fate that awaits the Western.
97. The problem is that a lot of Brazil's “growth” has come from Oil and Soy. Both are down, way way down and won't recover for a long time.
Apr 04th, 2015 - 02:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The other part of the “growth” has been direct payments and subsidies to slum dwellers such as yourself. The country could never afford it and now playing a game of chicken between its soverign bond rating and slum dweller civil unrest.
No telling who's going to win yet.
But I have my guesses.
Agribusiness accounts for 23% of Brazil's GDP. Soy is 2.2%.
Apr 04th, 2015 - 02:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why do you think that soy is important for Brazil? And it is important. But why do you think that soy is important?
Oil? Are you sure about that?
We are importers of oil! Why do you think that oil is important to the economy of Brazil? And it is.
It's only a matter of time until argenzuela is a Chinese province. Let's see how happy you are then. ☺
Apr 04th, 2015 - 04:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#97
Apr 04th, 2015 - 04:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What terrible fate awaits the “western”....whatever that is.
You actually THINK that your country will be a dominant world power.
With what ?
@101
Apr 04th, 2015 - 05:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, I do not think so. But while little trade, we are unbeatable in integrating. Portugal says it all!
@100
Apr 04th, 2015 - 07:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As long as the British, EU, and USA are no longer around, MUCH happier. What's so hard to understand that we don't like you nor do we want to be friends with you or even follow your world model? THat's so hard to get? I mention this because you suggest in your answer that “you” (the west) are better than the Chinese. That's your opinion, Argentina thinks differently.
@98
And what you think the USA's growth came from?? OIL!!
The USA has produced nothing new or interesting in the last 5 years to account for your “recovery”. Only Oil, and 0% rates leading to yet another bubble of property. That is what you have been reduced to. Sorry.
The only growth you sprak about, yanqui, is in the private sector. As you are allergic to taxes, I fail to see how that helps your argument. You sure USA is able to tax those sectors and avoid them fleeing the country? They're not known for their nationalism when it comes to contribution to the coffin...
Apr 04th, 2015 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And it's not about being a dominant world power. It's about getting rid of you lot...
Anybody who needs to brag about their country's power to obliterate another scores negative numbers in the happiness index. Inferiority complexes, fear or envy never make a happy living.
Apr 04th, 2015 - 08:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@103
Apr 04th, 2015 - 09:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So what you're saying is,you'd be happier with Chinese masters rather than argentine masters?
I thought you hated all foreigners?
@87 ShittyBerger
Apr 04th, 2015 - 10:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Because this will give Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, etc. the perfect excuse to assemble their owns made in SA nukes .......”
You are grossly misinformed. Brazil has absolutely no ambition to construct nukes, so much so, that the official policy of all governments, is that nuclear power, will only be for energy, and even then, pretty limited (Angra 1, Angra 2).
@97 Brasshole
“After 15 years of growth it is natural that there is a readjustment of the economy, but nothing as worrying as the situation of Western”
What crap !!....for the last 5 years, growth has been deaccellerating....growth has been gradually less, until virtual stagnation of the economy. To improve the economy, the Federal Governments needs to change direction in several policies.....doing things the PT way, has proved disastrous. And what you like to call the 'west', is doing a damned sight better than Brazil. Only you can't see it.
@99 What's your point ?? or are you trying present us with a riddle ??
@102 “But while little trade, we are unbeatable in integrating. Portugal says it all!”
Presume you mean that the Portuguese slave owners loved to dip their wick in the female slaves.......that was hardly integration, it was rape. And don't you believe it, but Brazil has an underlying problem with racism.....the Government can sign all the laws it wants to outlaw racism, but it cannot stop people from thinking the way they do. I personally believe in 'live and let live', but to force integration down the people's throats, through a bunch of laws, supposed to protect minorities, will not work. Every law made to protect a minority, discriminates the majority.
The difference with the UK, is that over there, the problem with racism is overlaying...
Apr 04th, 2015 - 11:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why do o many Lat Ams wish to migrate to Europe/USA/Canada/Australia ?
Apr 07th, 2015 - 01:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0Answers please.
109
Apr 07th, 2015 - 03:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0and why are so many bitter that they can't??
Snotty, potty-mouth, STEVIE... that's for you to answer!
You mean they go from being happiest in SA, to be bitter in Europe/Canada/Australia?
Apr 07th, 2015 - 05:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What's that for? Successful integration?
;)
@Ilsen
Apr 07th, 2015 - 06:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“ Why do o many Lat Ams wish to migrate to Europe/USA/Canada/Australia ?
Answers please.”
Who says that?
Since 2008 emigration has reversed from Europe to Latam.
Just from the period 2008 to 2009 110,000 Europeans have left Europe to live in Latam.
The highest number of people leaving Europe to Latam were from Spain, UK, Germany, Netehrlands, Portugal, Italy and France.
The main receiving countries by quantity of Europeans received were Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and Mexico.
And only in one year...
Since then Europe have received billons of Dollars in remittances from South American countries.
In 2010 just Portugal alone have received half billon dollars from SA and were in the 3er place after
Spain and France.
Source International Organisation for Migration (IOM)
Since 2008 to 2012, 700,000 Spanish have left Europe to move to a SA country.
According with the Nationa Institute of Spanish statitics another 547,890 people left in 2013.
The balance only for Spain for inmigration and Emigration have been negative decreasing in 211,000 people left in 2013.
According with the IoSS Argentinean born in Spain have decreased from 95,415 in 2013 to 80,900 in 2014.
On the other hand the influx of immigrant asking visas to work in UK are from
India 59.464 increase 11%
Australia 17.250 increase 11%
China 5,692 increase 29%
Hong Kong 1,712 increase 135%
New Zealand 5,731 increase 10%
South Africa 2,868 increase 18%
Venezuela 497 increase 294%
United Estates 15,247 increase 2%
Canada 6,580 increase 5%
Philippines 8.919 increase 3%
I don't see Latam people desperate to move to Europe and you?
112 Dany Vestige Stevie
Apr 07th, 2015 - 07:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Conspicuously absent - how many SA wanting to get their money and their families out of SA, to Miami or other US/Canada destinations? - and not even Spanish speaking nations!
Troy
Apr 07th, 2015 - 07:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Dunno.... Seven?
So, cheap avoidance - I'll put it down to you being “afraid to acknowledge the point”
Apr 07th, 2015 - 08:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Seventy-two?
Apr 08th, 2015 - 12:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0And don't include Miami in your list, that place is very much spanish speaking...
;)
@112 DB
Apr 08th, 2015 - 01:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0you said,
“The main receiving countries by quantity of Europeans received were Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and Mexico.”
But I asked “Why do so many Lat Ams wish to migrate to Europe/USA/Canada/Australia?”
Your pathetic answer:
(vis)
“On the other hand the influx of immigrant asking visas to work in UK are from
India 59.464 increase 11%
Australia 17.250 increase 11%
China 5,692 increase 29%
Hong Kong 1,712 increase 135%
New Zealand 5,731 increase 10%
South Africa 2,868 increase 18%
Venezuela 497 increase 294%
United Estates 15,247 increase 2%
Canada 6,580 increase 5%
Philippines 8.919 increase 3%
I don't see Latam people desperate to move to Europe and you?”
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Of the ten countries you bravely listed, only one is in Lat Am.
Vnzla.
You then quote the figure of a Venezuelan increase of 294% that wish to move to the UK only, let alone those that wish to migrate to the whole of Europe, USA, Canada, Australia!
294% increase!!! just to the UK!
Please show the figures, (and sources), of an increase of more than 294%, in the same time-frame of UK citizens moving TO Vnzla.
Oh, and answer the whole question if you can....
Remember it is;
“Why do so many Lat Ams wish to migrate to Europe/USA/Canada/Australia?”
@ilsen
Apr 08th, 2015 - 04:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Are you really serious or what?
Do you think that just only 497 people from Venezuela made a trend for Emigration from SA to Europe?
Please read the chart again just 497 people from Venzuela compared with millions from Europe migrating to SA.
Is irrelevant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What you say is just silly, don't be lazy made your own research you have plenty of articles
over the topic.
Many British have sold their property in UK and have moved to SA, Buenos Aires is an example of that.
In 2009/2010 for some Real State Agencies British counted for 20% of their income thanks to the sales to British alone.
Making the move to Latin America
http://www.independent.co.uk/property/house-and-home/making-the-move-to-latin-america-1671871.html
BTW who in his right mind will want to move to Europe or US now to be worse?
May be you want to move to US, especially tempted for their high quality Health Service.
http://www.independent.co.uk/property/house-and-home/making-the-move-to-latin-america-1671871.html
Child and adult poverty set to rise by 2015 in UK
http://www.independent.co.uk/property/house-and-home/making-the-move-to-latin-america-1671871.html
40% of British families ‘too poor to play a part in society’
8 million lacking required income level, says charity, as rising figure reflects cost of living and benefit cuts
http://www.independent.co.uk/property/house-and-home/making-the-move-to-latin-america-1671871.html
#118
Apr 08th, 2015 - 08:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Where do you live and why ?
Wow if the UK is this bad then Argnetina is literally hell on Earth.
Apr 08th, 2015 - 10:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Because not a single Argentine on here could argue that things are better in Argentina than the UK.
Thanks Paul and Dany for proving what Argentinean education is capable of.
Hmmm,
Apr 08th, 2015 - 04:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0contrary to the headline, Latams don't seem to be very happy on this thread
Still didn't answer my question.
Apr 08th, 2015 - 08:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ilsen. 10 points
Apr 08th, 2015 - 09:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0DanyBoludo. 0 points
Haha! thanks,
Apr 08th, 2015 - 11:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0:-)
Having read most of the posts on here, even Stevie's, got me thinking ....Why are citizens of Latam countries allegedly happier than those of other countries, say those of the USA and the UK ? The article states that the countries that lead the ranking are “Uruguay, 80; Argentina, 79; Chile, 79; Bolivia, 77 and Brazil, 74, which compares with the 79 for the US; 75, UK and China, 75”...
Apr 09th, 2015 - 10:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0First of all, the difference between the leading countries and the USA and the UK are not really significant.....second, the survey considered one random day on which to base its conclusion which, if taken on a different day, during which the persons interviewed had experienced a bad emotion, the result would have been totally different. And last of all, happiness is directly related to expectations and realizations.....since that Latin Americans, generally speaking, live in relatively unstable counties, their expectations aren't very high....as a result, they are happier because the situation is not worse....which means the survey is a relative measurement of happiness, not an absolute one....therefore not particularly relevant.
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