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Argentine Lower House unanimously approves draft emergency food law
Argentine lawmakers on Thursday unanimously approved a draft emergency food law to free up resources for social programs amid a worsening economic crisis. The bill, yet to be approved by the Senate, would provide a 50 percent increase in food assistance programs to growing numbers of poor. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAn emergency food law that Alberto will have to keep paying in the future. A law only needed for propaganda purposes. What's even more sinister is that there is no need for such a law. The funds for increased food help during emergency situations is something that can be arranged by the social welfare ministry.
Sep 13th, 2019 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Is this the only way to counter the “social organizations” mafia? Is Congress sure that this extra help will not end up in the wrong hands?
Oh Alberto, are you sure that you still want this job?
“What's even more sinister is that there is no need for such a law.”
Sep 14th, 2019 - 03:52 am - Link - Report abuse -1What a hemorrhage of nonsense and insensitivity, obviously from someone who have the basic needs covered.
I would submit that sinister is to be hungry. For TF, sinister is a law that was unanimously voted in Congress.
In TF's distorted mirror, those who volunteer to help the homeless and the hungry are “mafia.” I submit that more akin with mafiosi are those who emptied Argentina's coffers during four years of financial maneuvers allowed--and encouraged--by the Macri government.
Yes, it's going to be an uphill battle for Alberto Fernandez. He is the first one to recognize it. No matter, the man is qualified for the job, in spite of the naysayers.
Estimado Sr. Massot...
Sep 14th, 2019 - 10:23 am - Link - Report abuse -2Como Argentinos de clase (privilegiada :-)... debemos maximizar nuestros esfuerzos por convivir con aquellos piojos resucitados como el pebete de arriba..., que se creen que “el negro es el otro”...
Como tán bién lo define esta negra linda en poco más de un minuto...:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F-dunZTK0mc
You two, your time is up. You keep on embracing post-war era falacies. Alberto will have a tough time and I will be here to support him if he shows courage to turn around our decadent system into the money making machine that it is supposed to be.
Sep 14th, 2019 - 05:12 pm - Link - Report abuse +2I'm sorry but your old fashioned ideas have turned this country into a mess. Look who's talking. One living in Canada, the other one supposedly in northwestern Chubut. Both of them far, far away to what the real word on the streets is.
Alberto will be a surprise. A really good surprise. And if you upper class socialists don't let him be, the market will correct things. Cristina will have to watch her steps if she wants to stay out of jail. Unless of course she exiles herself in Cuba. Alberto is her last card.
So long suckers!
“Southwestern Chubut”..., if I may...
Sep 14th, 2019 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse -3And by the way... right now..., we have a lot more ***“real word on the streets”*** down here in Chubut than in that “negrada de medio pelo reservation” of yours around Cabildo y Juramento...
Te falta caye..., pebete..., te falta...
“Cramer y Lacroze” ..., if I may
Sep 14th, 2019 - 08:02 pm - Link - Report abuse +1What's the word in the streets around your place? Have you finally managed to understand sheep?
Cramer y Lacroze...?
Sep 14th, 2019 - 08:20 pm - Link - Report abuse -3That's not even Belgrano...!
En mi época..., Colegiales era la reservación para la negrada de un cuarto de pelo...
We are at war in the street around my place..., pebete..., at war...
Haven't you been listening to your friend Patricia Luro Pueyrredón...?
Argentines, get off your arses and work for a living, instead of asking the State to support you, you all want free meals and no taxes and all sit round a table moaning how bad life is.Get off your arses.
Sep 14th, 2019 - 08:56 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Yes, of course, besides my irreverence,I'm aware of the shitty situation in Chubut. I don't really care for what Patricia says. I'd rather listen to Salazar's predictions. At least now we know where the governor gets his advice from. Could you blame the man?
Sep 14th, 2019 - 09:09 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Colegiales is way nicer than Belgrano. Halfway between the big city and a small town. Many of my neighbors have been here for more than 40 years. Too bad they are bringing down old houses to build dull apt. blocks though. The problem is old people passing away and their “pebetes” selling the lots for big money. Only a few brave ones care to restore and bring back alive their elders' beautiful houses.
Now..., if you excuse me..., I have to take care of some of Patricia's imaginary friends...
Sep 14th, 2019 - 10:53 pm - Link - Report abuse -4https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cS7G8gc0RAs
@Think
Sep 15th, 2019 - 05:58 am - Link - Report abuse -2Love Mayra Mendoza. She's got a fresh way of defining old things such as the Argentines' never recognized domestic racism. I hope she gets elected as mayor of Quilmes, after her successful performance in the Aug. 11 primaries.
On another matter, you got to love TF, the new voice for the furious, the disappointed, the ones in total disbelief who have discretely exited this forum lest they would have to comment on the wave of the sweaty, unwashed, choripan-eating 'negros,' (el aluvión zoológico), who have dared nothing else than to vote out their free-market, blue-eyed white knight.
Why, TF is even coming here like a little fighting rooster con la cresta en alto, warning you and I that “our time is up,” still dreaming of seeing “la yegua” in the slammer and Alberto Fernandez turning Argentina into a “money-making machine.”
TF then rambles about the demolition of nice houses in Colegiales (anything but the news) before shooting the Argie Chubutense and the Argie Canadian 'cause they don't live in the right place where HE happens to live. (Ah, esos porteños!)
Another one shouting, like Mauricio did, “the election did not happen.”
Saludos!
Pebete...
Sep 15th, 2019 - 11:20 am - Link - Report abuse -3No.............., the problem is NOT...: “old people passing away and their “pebetes” selling the lots for big money”...
The problem is those neoliberal intendentes friends of you..., as Montero Ruiz (he gave permission to demolish my elders beautiful house)..., Cacciatore..., Maurizio Macri or Rodriguez Larreta Díaz Alberdi..., that have absolutely no respect for our city's heritage...
Estimado Sr. Massot...
Comparto en un todo su comentario...;-) Dos cositas...:
1) Can you confirm the rumors that a little fighting rooster con la cresta un poco bajoneada estos días..., who once wet-dreamed about seeing “la potranca” in the slammer..., and greately contributed in turning Argentina into a “money-losing machine”..., called Nicolás María Massot Bó..., is transferring to North America...?
2) I have made the mistake myself of mixing up those TWO young, beautiful & intelligent Mayras... ;-)
Mayra Mendoza..., Quilmeña..., is the one you so well described...
Mayra Arena..., the one I linked a Youtube video..., Bahiense..., de los pagos de los Massot...
Buén Domingo
Corrupt politicians could give back what they stole.
Sep 15th, 2019 - 06:16 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Public money could be saved by not putting up a plaque and having a public holiday every time a veteran of '82 sneezes.
The time and money spent on propaganda and indoctrination about the false claim to the Falklands could be spent helping the poor and hungry.
Mr. Pipino...
Sep 15th, 2019 - 09:20 pm - Link - Report abuse -3- The about four hundred thousand (400,000) tons of fish you Engrish Kelper Squidllionaire Pirates extract illegally from Argentinean waters each year..., could be spent helping our poor and hungry...
Think,
Sep 16th, 2019 - 02:35 am - Link - Report abuse -2My distant and never acquainted relative Nicolas Massot, alias El Colorado, had been looking for better horizons and gotten a scholarship in Yale, being due to travel mid-August, so I suppose he is busy in gringolandia, away from trouble. I also heard of other members of “the best team of the last 50 years” taking similar 'viajes de estudios' or other opportunities in lejanas tierras.
http://www.parlamentario.com/noticia-119492.html
Gee...my bad on mixing both Mayras too...what a sum of talent and vision in both of them. Argentina is richer for having them, and Bahia Blanca gets to be a better place with M. Arena.
I am Thinking the scenario is looking a bit better every day.
Tarquin Fin, what did you mean by saying the law isn't needed?
Sep 16th, 2019 - 09:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0(EM and Think seem more interested in class warfare than the facts of the matter.)
Esteemed Sr. Massot...
Sep 16th, 2019 - 06:20 pm - Link - Report abuse -2Seems to be..., that you and me are being accused by the young Engrishman poster above of ***“being more interested in class warfare than the facts of the matter.”***
I Think we should give this Engrishman observation serious consideration..., because..., as some os us know..., “Class Warfare” has looong ago ended in Engeland..., with a clear winner...
As we use to say in Southwestern Chubut...: “A picture is worth a thousand words”...:
ERGO...:The Bullyingdon Dinner Society...
https://www.esquireme.com/sites/default/files/images/2019/07/23/Bullingdon-Club.jpg
(Can you find the two Engrish Prime Ministers...?)
Nothing is so simple here, but it's beside the point. It occurs to me that a social welfare ministry appointed by Macri might not be inclined to release more funds for food aid, even if they have the power to do it. So was the law needed or not?
Sep 17th, 2019 - 08:35 am - Link - Report abuse -2DT
Sep 17th, 2019 - 04:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Of course an emergency food law was and is needed. Such law allows the government to set a higher level of priority on making food available to those in need. Budget allocations can be modified to fit with the priorities. In light of the Macri government's indifference to other issues such as stimulus to the economy, job creation and in general anything having to do with social welfare, the law allows for emergency solutions. I do agree that Macri may neuter it, but what's then people to do? The Argentines have been much less patient during previous crisis, and it would be beneficial to all to prevent people from taking it to the streets.
Most of us get off our arses and work to feed ourselves and our children. Why is it that most “ poverty stricken ” have more than 1 child, It is getting like Africa where the males father children then move on to another woman, is it the same in Argentina? About time they took responsibility for their children. If you cant afford to eat why on earth bring more hungry mouths to the table.
Sep 18th, 2019 - 12:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Anglo Turnip just above...
Sep 18th, 2019 - 10:01 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Most of us get off our arses and work to feed ourselves and our children... Why is it that most “poverty stricken” Engrish teen moms have children...? Engeland..., where the females spawn a baby then move on to another man...! About time they took responsibility for their children. If you can't afford to eat why on earth bring more hungry mouths to the table..., huhhhhh...?
Don't just cap their benefits..., cap their ovaries..., right...?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jan/04/benefit-cap-single-mothers-make-up-85percent-of-those-affected-data-shows
I get the impression Golfcronie was referring to the UK more so than Argentina. And there's some people here who probably would like to sterilise the poor, I've seen similar sentiments to yours in letters to the paper... people suck.
Sep 19th, 2019 - 05:30 pm - Link - Report abuse +1I see your law passed, anyway.
Golfcronie ignores a simple fact: poverty and multiple offspring families go hand in hand.
Sep 19th, 2019 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Developed countries have low birthrates.
Ergo, to attack high growth rates, the best strategy is to increase public health and education levels.
Which is probably far more than golfcronie and his ilk can stomach.
:-)
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