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In the Saturday, January 3, 2009 edition of La Nacion, the following good news was published.
1. ICE will be lowering their internet connection fee by 40% beginning this month.
2. The Ministry of Economy, Industry and Commerce (MEIC) has stated that bread will now cost 10% less and rice 5% less.
3. Seguro Social (CCSS) has stated that it is appointing 336 new medical specialists in its 29 hospitals throughout the country to alleviate the backlog of medical patients.
4. The new drunk driving laws have effectively scared the locals as the number of drunk drivers caught so far this holiday season has dropped by 50% from 2007.
Every little bit helps!
Who says socialism is bad? Now all we need is a healthy hand out from Uncle Sam up here in the way of a stimulus package, and all will be hunky dory.
Amazing that T-bills seem to keep holding their own while Euro & Pound are down. Great time to go to Europe if you reserve lodging & buy Euros now. Socialism obviously works well for populations less than XX million. Maginally effective in larger countries XXX million +, especially with a capitalistic foundation.
I think recent events have pretty much put the stake through the heart of the religion of free market economies. Only the most faithful (and most delusional) still believe in the infallibility of unregulated capitalism. We are finally all moving towards the sanity of socialism. I don’t know of any evidence that large population alone would nullify the successful administration of socialistic principles.
Even with the supoosed corruption of the CR government, it is still functioning with the stated goal of serving the people. It seems that markets are made to serve the people in Costa Rica, not vice versa as in the States. Not only is that admirable, but it has been achieved.
Evidence of the functionality of the CR government is the fact that Seguro Social (CCSS) is adding 336 new medical specialists to assist its member patients with surgery and other procedures that have been backlogged. The CCSS is putting the needs of the Costa Rican’s ahead of profitability.
Socialism can be counted on to produce an improved society as well as a welcomed increase in exercisable democratic options and economic prospects.
Democratic socialism, although not an American archetype, must be seen as a contending form of democratic expression that is now increasing in popularity throughout Latin America. It will surely develop as the middle class grows and demands more of the same social programs and services which political leaders offer in their campaigns to be elected.
Economic progress in the past decade has helped give Costa Rica a sense of legitimacy as well as extra funds for the improvement of the social sector, which allows for some of the benefits generally associated with the middle class to become more widely available.
Please tell me in which Latin American countries democratic socialism is gaining in popularity without it being shoved down the throats of the middle class via fraudlent elections, political manuvering, blackmail, violence and blackmail. Chile and Costa Rica,as exceptions(maybe Brazil,Colombia and Peru),but what about Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Argentina. El Salvador will soon enter the group. Latin American democratic socialism smells very much like pre 1990 eastern european socialism with the attempts to legislate perpetual presidents and other politicos. It will be interesting to see what happens when the petro wellfare wells dry up and the masses have to return to work. Don’t take me wrong as I am not in favor of savage capitalism but some balance has to be reached
Like we have democracy in the USA right?
Like “democracy” is not “being shoved down the throats of the middle class via fraudulent elections” in the USA, right?
Anybody who thinks we have democracy in the US really should be thinking about thinking for themselves and not believing the BS that they see every friggin night TV
Good response,Bradford.
By the way, the PEOPLE of Chile, Brazil and Cuba CHOSE their governments and are so far, quite content with them…as opposed the governments and economies that the World Bank and the U.S. SHOVED down their throats for the last half century. They are breaking free from that economic colonialism and good for them!And what about all the democracy we have shoved down the throats of every country we invaded or whose democratically-elected leader we flat-out assassinated??? The list is so long and I haven’t had enough coffee yet but let’s start with Iran, Indonsian, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Guatemala . .oh, yeah, Haiti. . . . .and on and on and on.
And while we’re at it… when Fidel got sick, what elected (by the people) politician was it that was appointed to take his position by some type on constitutional succession rule? 🙂
I live in Miami and have spent time in Cuba. There are contented and discontented Cubans in both places. The big difference between them is that the ones who stayed in Cuba still have their culture and their country.
I have had my fill of anti Cuba propoganda. Americans ignorant of the facts buy into that crap because it supports their failing world view. I know better from first hand experience so I am able to brush off the usual swill that is used to keep people ignorant of what is really happening in Cuba and elsewhere in latin america. When people who have always been denied the basics of health care, food and shelter, are finally given those things by a socialistic government, they are grateful. Ask most Costa Ricans and they will respond in the affirmative just as most Cubans in Cuba will. And when that socialism is under constant threat by a powerful enemy, they keep CHOOSING the leader who brought them out of economic colonialism. They chose Fidel over and over. He was chosen by the public, not selected by a court, as our recent president was.
Edited on Jan 07, 2009 12:31
Sprite, I hate to disagree but I haved lived in Costa Rica for over 35 years, speak fluent Spanish,have Costa Rican grandchildren and have a pension from the CR gov. so I can tell you from personal experience that MOST ticos are not the least bit interested in living under Cuban type socialism. As for the swill, it seems most US news is very sympathetic to the socialist cause. Fidel chose himself with guns and kept on doing so for 50 years.
I know enough Costa Ricans to be able to say that most of them don’t even know what Cuban socialism is. Don’t forget that a lot of misinformation is pushed off onto the CR public from the US for obvious political reasons. My point was that Ticos for the most part seem to appreciate their brand of socialism and that is fine. I appreciate it as well. Who but the idiot U.S. president we have believes that forms of government should be exported by force of arms to other countries?
Fidel used military force in order to throw out a corrupt U.S. puppet government. Fidel is a Cuban and was not importing nor exporting a government. He was chosen by popular demand to lead after the revolution just as our George Washington was chosen after our own revolution.
I like that Costa Rica bends its economy just enough so that it serves the people. That is exactly what Cuba has been doing for 50 years now. 2009 will be a better year for Costa Rica and Cuba in a crisis than it will for many in the U.S. Here in the States we have little or no safety net.
Edited on Jan 07, 2009 14:28
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