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03-11-2009, 06:30 PM
The more taxes the state collects in taxes and tariffs, the worse public services become, and the richer those who are in power become, states Adriano Miguel Tejada, editor of Diario Libre in his page two editorial today. He speaks of how control of political power is part of a growing caste of governors that has become the elite that has appropriated the national wealth, turning this into a kind of political trust in which each of them, their friends and associates make use of the resources.
Tejada comments that in this proprietary package there is no room for social investment or for improving the people's standard of living. He explains that the government makes symbolic deliveries of goods that only serve to consolidate the poverty of the great masses, while the powers that be in politics shamelessly display their trophies in luxury hotels here and abroad.
He writes: "To achieve this, they have used the model of "state capitalism" leaving intact and even strengthening the paternalistic and caudillo-style structures that in the long run will impede advances in the process of leaving under-development behind. This is model that has taken us to where we are today, where no one cares if schools don't teach, if the health system isn't working, or if the state administrative structures, including those in charge of law and order and safety, contribute in any way to society.
The appropriation of the state by all the political groups allows the independence of politicians from the rest of society and their total indifference to its problems."
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Tejada comments that in this proprietary package there is no room for social investment or for improving the people's standard of living. He explains that the government makes symbolic deliveries of goods that only serve to consolidate the poverty of the great masses, while the powers that be in politics shamelessly display their trophies in luxury hotels here and abroad.
He writes: "To achieve this, they have used the model of "state capitalism" leaving intact and even strengthening the paternalistic and caudillo-style structures that in the long run will impede advances in the process of leaving under-development behind. This is model that has taken us to where we are today, where no one cares if schools don't teach, if the health system isn't working, or if the state administrative structures, including those in charge of law and order and safety, contribute in any way to society.
The appropriation of the state by all the political groups allows the independence of politicians from the rest of society and their total indifference to its problems."
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)