NewsWhore
07-09-2008, 03:10 PM
Editor Adriano Miguel Tejada poses some questions in his A.M. column in today's Diario Libre. The editor asks, should the government give larger subsidies and favors to drivers who never comply with the deals and who, moreover, owe the same government, the banks and who knows who else, billions of pesos and who refuse to pay, or to put it more delicately, are "timid" when it comes to payment time?
Can the government maintain some subsidies that it does not control, without investigating whether or not the beneficiaries pay taxes, or have cases pending in the courts, or have a file in the financial data banks, and whose costs have never been really clear?
Can the import of eight-cylinder used vehicles that will be converted to propane gas be maintained in order to keep increasing the subsidy?
Given the price of oil, can we keep "fixing" the potholes in streets and highways without providing maintenance? Or is it cheaper to designate neighborhood groups and make them responsible for keeping the drainage clean so that the streets and highways don't suffer so much damage?
Can we keep talking about scandalous salary levels while our soldiers and police officers (who have guns) survive on really miserable salaries, without the disaster that we are beginning to witness, in which many of these soldiers and police officers are involved in robberies and murders?
There are many more such questions, according to Tejada, but "let's leave it there," so we don't get a headache.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)
Can the government maintain some subsidies that it does not control, without investigating whether or not the beneficiaries pay taxes, or have cases pending in the courts, or have a file in the financial data banks, and whose costs have never been really clear?
Can the import of eight-cylinder used vehicles that will be converted to propane gas be maintained in order to keep increasing the subsidy?
Given the price of oil, can we keep "fixing" the potholes in streets and highways without providing maintenance? Or is it cheaper to designate neighborhood groups and make them responsible for keeping the drainage clean so that the streets and highways don't suffer so much damage?
Can we keep talking about scandalous salary levels while our soldiers and police officers (who have guns) survive on really miserable salaries, without the disaster that we are beginning to witness, in which many of these soldiers and police officers are involved in robberies and murders?
There are many more such questions, according to Tejada, but "let's leave it there," so we don't get a headache.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)