Argentina Crisis: Poverty
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The actual government of Argentina is impoverishing this rich country. The political decisions are taking our country into a crisis without precedents.
Far away the political ideologies we can accept as true, we must understand that the economic political decisions are damaging our economic system and the welfare of all citizens. You must be answering why…
Through the history, our country has been an important seller of commodities. The large dimensions of land and the variety of types of weather have allowed this.
But, now, things are different. Some time ago, the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner banned the international free trade of commodities and some products made from them. So, the prices decreased because of the great amount of these products in the domestic market.
Farmers obtain low prices for their products. In spite of this, when people go to the supermarket to buy meat, vegetables and so on , they pay high prices. The question is who earns the difference between these prices…
Farmers are impoverishing and a lot of them have disappeared. We could think that is only a sector of the economy. But , our country depends of this sector greatly.
If farmers reduce their incomes, they will not be able to spend money …what will happen with employment, industry, trade… what will happen with other sectors of the economy?
Besides, who are going to provide milk, flour, animal protein and so on.
What will happen with the prices of these products in a short time?
Who are going to produce for our country?
The land is bought by foreigners, politicians and syndicalistes. Now the question is “Are they going to produce for our country?”
Politicians talk about a programme to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor.. but almost everybody is impoverishing, except politicians and their friends…
There are a lot of high different taxes in my country. However, there are not security. Health and education are offered badly.
In Argentina, in the province of Chaco, native inhabitants die of hunger. But our president and her staff spend a great amount of money on travel, clothes and so on.
Argentina is a rich country, but political corruption and inefficient governments are impoverishing it.
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3 Comments
Poverty in Argentina is more severe than India??
I don’t think so. What I mean is, the early history of Argentina have been signed by ineffecient and corrupted actions of the govenments. So, these polical decisions have taken Argentina into poverty.
oh… ok.