Is this the biggest joke or what... what pisses me off about all this is that Leonel said he would not do what previous government administrations have done regarding "borron y cuenta nueva" (erase the past.. start off fresh). This is a crock of Sh!T to me because from what you can see from plan renove, the housing scandal, the automobile scandal etc. just to name a few.
It seems to me that if this whole anti-corruption does take affect. It is going to happen with no one or maybe 1 or 2 individuals sent "supposedly" to jail just to set an example. Also, if they do decide to send someone to jail it would only be for one reason only - to try and win the confidence of the local and international community.
Now we all know that the crooked politicians and anyone who got a piece of the pie now has enough $$$ to buy themselves out of going to jail and doing some real time. Unfortunately, poor suckers like me still have to pay the high remittances to maintain the family because the prices have not all gone down and the freaking taxes (the increaseed ones and the the new ones) have cause the prices not to drop so much. Though I am pissed that my US$ lost its buying power its ok as long as the motives are understandable but, I look at things like this:
1.)Increasing the power of the peso is good because I will reduce the amount of peso's needed to pay the debt.. but if the government enforces all of this anticorruption policy and beats the crap out of all these politicians I am pretty sure they can recupe a whole bunch of the money they stole back.
2.)Increasing taxes is good because it increased the revenue for the government... but why should a hard working individual like myself that makes an honest living need to pay back the money those politicians stole. I think increasing taxes unless its temporary which I know these taxes will become permanent. The way I see this, is that the local community will get used to paying the higher taxes and then the government is going to be like "you know what, since we just ripped off the cunts again, again, and again! lets keep the taxes until it replenishes what we took besides I need to finish off the house I started in Monte Cristi".
Excuse my typos and my grammer but, I am just to dam pissed to do that right now :angry:
It seems to me that if this whole anti-corruption does take affect. It is going to happen with no one or maybe 1 or 2 individuals sent "supposedly" to jail just to set an example. Also, if they do decide to send someone to jail it would only be for one reason only - to try and win the confidence of the local and international community.
Now we all know that the crooked politicians and anyone who got a piece of the pie now has enough $$$ to buy themselves out of going to jail and doing some real time. Unfortunately, poor suckers like me still have to pay the high remittances to maintain the family because the prices have not all gone down and the freaking taxes (the increaseed ones and the the new ones) have cause the prices not to drop so much. Though I am pissed that my US$ lost its buying power its ok as long as the motives are understandable but, I look at things like this:
1.)Increasing the power of the peso is good because I will reduce the amount of peso's needed to pay the debt.. but if the government enforces all of this anticorruption policy and beats the crap out of all these politicians I am pretty sure they can recupe a whole bunch of the money they stole back.
2.)Increasing taxes is good because it increased the revenue for the government... but why should a hard working individual like myself that makes an honest living need to pay back the money those politicians stole. I think increasing taxes unless its temporary which I know these taxes will become permanent. The way I see this, is that the local community will get used to paying the higher taxes and then the government is going to be like "you know what, since we just ripped off the cunts again, again, and again! lets keep the taxes until it replenishes what we took besides I need to finish off the house I started in Monte Cristi".
Excuse my typos and my grammer but, I am just to dam pissed to do that right now :angry: