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Published by Esteban Glas on March 15th, 2009 | This post lacks all category except for: Argentina, long term thinking, personal

I was Investigating on the evolution of Argentina’s Foreign Debt over the past 150 years or so (history is a pasion I tend to keep offline, for reasons unknown), when I came across CIA’s World Factbook entry on this country. Upon other interesting (and rather unbiased) facts one can read this tidbit:

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 22% based on non-official estimates; the much lower official rate lacks credibility (2008 est.)

The official rate (as measured by INDEC) was 7.2% for that same period.

I can’t help but wonder how is it that we, Argentines, can allow a government to systematically lie to us. It is plainly unacceptable.

Yet there are many people who benefit from this double standards situation. No one on the middle class does, but Argentine governments have proved a serious expertise on slaughtering Argentina’s middle class.

As part of a global community, and part of a global (or worldsourced) company it is very difficult to explain this kind of crap to people in places that make some more sense.

Oh, and before I forget, according to the same CIA factbook, Argentina Ranks #211 out of 224 in inflation. Hey! lets look at it from the bright side, at least this is not (yet?) Zimbabwe with a 11,000,000% inflation in 2008.

Also, we are in good company with countries such as Venezuela, Iran or Nicaragua.

I know I repeat myself, but here’s the twist: there are several pressing matters in Argentina today. The one that makes the most headlines is the lack of security. As in going out to the street and being mobbed, robbed or killed. That has started an idiotic discussion on installing the Death Penalty.Needless to say I oppose it without any contemplations.

The thing is, such discussions are nothing else than mere distractions of the real issues we face. insecurity is nothing else than a by-product of the lack of serious and permanent policies. Each government is more interested in trying to be as corrupt as they can, instead of trying to make life better for the same people that voted them.

How can we even suggest giving a state that lies on a permanent basis the power to kill? It is plainly stupid. We are being idiotic.

Is Argentina beyond saving? I fear so. The only reason we are not Ethiopia or Afghanistan is because we are blessed enough to have an abundance in natural resources.

Until we realize as a nation that changin reality is something that needs to be done collectively we will be lied to, stupidized, and led to think irrelevant matters we will not surge from the downward spiral we’ve been in since the 1930s.

We are corrupt, at all levels. We are all corrupt. We like the easy way out from all situations. Nothing can be built until we extirpate that from our national DNA.

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