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Originally Posted by Hipocrito Mejia
Well, since you asked, here's a few:
1. I want Diandino's share from the construction of the SD metro.
2. I want the ridiculous amount of money (75%) that was skimmed from the purchase of the metro cars.
3. I want the money from Plan Renove.
4. I want the government to stop handing out monthly checks to party members.
5. I want the senate/deputies/regidores to stop giving themselves raises.
6. I want Felucho out of the Ministry of Tourism. How the hell is he allowed to be a partner in just about every endeavor undertaken by his ministry?
7. I want the ministry of education to stop buying watered down milk.
8. I want Eligio Jaquez in jail and the money from the invernaderos.
You want more? You see PICHARDO, I may yearn to see some, if not most of the same things that you want, but before I see any of that, I want to see heads roll. I want to see a whole bunch of known thieves in the current and previous governments pay for what they have done to our country and its people.
The government can keep taking in more money, but as long as such a large share ends up going into the pockets of crooked officials, and not into improvements in education, the health system, and other infrastucture, it will continue to be 1 step forward, 2 steps back, while these sleaze balls laugh all the way to their foreign bank accounts.
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Yes indeed, but still elementary grade schoolers in comparison to the Halliburton’s associates and big wads of pork barrel... Ours are still in the clear (case in point on how easy they're to spot and list as you did) unlike the older and stronger models of democracies...
We can't expect to clean house yet, as you put it. We're on the way there!
It takes time to bring about the changes in a well-oiled machinery that operates with doomsday efficiency. What we can do is attack the gears, bearings and oil that feed it, in the hopes of making the changes give fruit in the long term.
The only other option to end this shameful activity is to do away with the machinery all together, but again, who wants to turn into a Cuba or Venezuela at this day and age?
We have a working system that provides ample opportunity to make changes, slow as that may be, is changes that are happening nevertheless...
You can nominate a great civic minded person to a post and only follow the end results. Like the adage goes "power corrupts". You can trust and mistrust all you want but in the end, the responsibility ends with the individual and their actions.
The steps to weed out and penalize public servants is ongoing and hopefully, in the coming years we'll witness the advances in that field with the unfortunate prosecution of public figures. Which took the trust laid over them and violated that oath while a public servant of the people.
We need to clean house, yes, not questions about it... But again your post only details the known ills of our democracy. We don't need to be pointed towards that, which we already know and are engaged in doing something about; the democratic way (not standing up people before a shooting squad).
We all can list the wrongs in our system, but can we be able to list the ways (not utopias again) to make it just a bit better, without departing from working within the system itself, not trying to become Superman and fixing it with one steeled fist...