Tainari88 wrote:Blackjack, why do you LIE on me so much? I am getting tired of that BJ. Don't lie on me boldfacedly--if you do that? I will have to just ignore you from now on. I can't waste time with someone who knows what I really think but fails to have enough integrity to not lie on opponents in political philosophy.
Well, you need to be clear about who you are asking to pay a universal basic income. Your are not clear on this at all. You are fluent in multiple languages, so you should know the pitfalls of overusing pronouns. How is Columbia going to afford that? They can't raise taxes (as the protests show). So they have to adopt an inflationary monetary policy like the US has, which means the Columbian peso would take a big hit. So what would happen? The rich would move their money out of Columbia. You have to consider positive analysis, not just normative analysis.
Tainari88 wrote:The USA in fact LIVES off of all of Latin America. You yourself said if there is money being doled out to anyone in Latin America from the USA government or corporate organizations, there is an American getting paid and getting the money back and with interest too.
That's not the USA living off of Latin America. That's the political establishment and very narrow special interests getting American government money to help "develop" other countries. Do you think they are sending imperial royalty checks to poor people in the ghettos in the US? Not at all. It's corporations that get the USAID, export-import bank, etc. money.
Tainari88 wrote:Reality is that Latin America as a whole are set up to be extraction economies.
That's been the case since they were part of Spain and Portugal. It has little to do with the United States.
Tainari88 wrote:See how I did that? Painted you with that? Do you like it? Don't do it then!
I think its humorous, but that's because as a white male American, I get a lot worse all the time. It's pretty standard fare for us these days.
Tainari88 wrote:And I bet you think that for sure.
I actually worked with a guy from Peru, and we got along swimmingly. He has gone to another company, but had a fantastic sense of humor. I also work with some people with Cubano roots. They hate leftist ideology. I work with a Spaniard every single day. I work with people from all over the world every single day. International interaction is my way of life. This morning, I was on a call headed by a Greek lady who is presently living in Czechia. I just added an Israeli woman to my team.
Tainari88 wrote:But again the neoliberals who are souless freaks with no loyalties to anyone but their own pockets won't do what is necessary.
That's why they ended up with Trump, and why the Trump movement is not going to go away any more than they thought the Tea Party would go away. It may morph and change, but they will be in for a reckoning at some point I think.
Tainari88 wrote:BJ, either you lie on purpose to discredit me or you are failing to understand where my point of view comes from. Either way? It is not good.
Not all problems in Latin America are the fault of the US. Much of Latin America is not business friendly. Venezuela is the worst now, with 17 procedures just to start a business at an expense of 90% of the annual income per capita and nearly half a year to get it done. That makes it impossible for poor people to move up. Look at what is happening in the United States. The red states are doing far, far better economically than the blue states where they are unfriendly to business. It's production, trade and commerce that lift people out of poverty, not welfare.
Global Recovery May Not Be Enough for Latin AmericaThe pandemic has also hit GDP and employment harder in the region (Latin America) than in all other developing regions. Poverty and inequality have spiked, potentially rolling back 20 years of hard-fought progress.
It's really China who should be paying for this, not the US. Although, I think Fauci and Danszak may be culpable as well.
Tainari88 wrote:Maybe other posters are right. I don't think you can see a lot of angles to a culture, or a people. Maybe you are very closed minded.
Geography plays a big role in economic development. It's very difficult to develop economies in mountainous and tropical regions. It always has been. You cannot seem to grapple with the fact that normative analysis and socialism won't likely save the day, and that someone like me is unlikely to believe that; yet, I can still get along just fine with people from all over the world. The political left does not have a monopoly on virtue.
I've posted many geopolitical analysts about stuff like this. You could have listened to Peter Zeihan, who more or less predicted what's happening in Central America right now. They are screwed by the covid pandemic, just like a lot of working class Americans are screwed. It's very difficult. I know. I was pretty well screwed after 2008, but as I noted I have totally skirted any negatives in this pandemic and am doing even better as a result. Life isn't particularly fair.
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