Senator Bernie
Sander for Vermont wrote an article and I thought it would help us here in
Chile to see what is happening in some aspects of what he thinks is happening
in his country. Some time ago we have seen in our country a disastrous decision to rule only for some citizens “the Rich”.
It is urgent a deep reflection and join efforts to repeal the current situation
of the citizens of our country, or to lessen its impact. Becomes more and more
clear and imminent a crash of social classes if nothing is done. Abraham
Lincoln said, in his famous speech at Gettysburg during the Civil War, of the
United States of America as a country "of the people, by the people and
for the people." Today, as a result the citizens of the world and ours, are
no exception, we are going very fast to become nations "of the rich, the
rich and the rich." Chile, despite the fact of having one of the most
unequal distributions of wealth and income than any country on earth, our
millionaires and billionaires want more, more and more.
Here what
we will see very soon is a new Bastille or the beginning of the French
Revolution but in the Latin America continent. People do not take any more the abuse
that is happening in the financial sector, political and economic system of the
country where the judicial, legislative, executive, private and public sector, accept
and allow these groups of power and wealth, conservative or liberal let them do
but it pleases. We cannot understand that winning so much money by so little people
allow the suffering of so many families that cannot defend themselves from
abuse by those with power. But the saddest thing of all in this big picture is
to see that in our beloved country the political and economic authorities, and
even more in the private sector, they let facts continue to occur in front of
our own eyes, of abuses that have no name. I wonder: when will end up such
abuse, knowing that regardless, they allow it; to repair the damage will take
years to reverse. Is perhaps the intention of spending hundreds of millions of
dollars of the rich to buy the soul of the humble? If it so, they are wrong.
Rather I think, they are creating and spreading hatred so great that not have
realized and that it will end sooner than later.
We must
reverse the situation. We must take seriously the maintenance of the
foundations of democracy, but not this current "democracy", to which
they can buy, bread, circuses, and promises and deceit. We have to show that
citizens and social networks are one of the most powerful weapons that are
currently created and expose the evil, lying, and corrupt, which we will have
so much time trying to maintain an unsustainable system that are more concerned
how to be perpetuated in power. In a few weeks or months in local elections
(and later presidential), they will get a big surprise. If we want to reduce
the terrible impact of their decisions, at least there should be a politician
or a leader who really stand out against it, a citizen who is completely
disillusioned with all the decisions that only serve the rich and forgot about
the homeless, because things are in our country are not penalized, this is a
country full of opportunities, but for foreigners living in worse conditions in
their countries than ours, accepting whatever it takes to be better than in
their own countries and obviously to the untouchables is the perfect conditions.
Such as our friends of La Polar. That deceived so many people and they have to
spend their arrest in their lovely houses
To improve
this situation that overwhelms us all citizens of our beloved country, we must
strengthen Social Security, through an economic system fair for all, where
maximizing profits, with lower costs does not mean sacrificing quality. We have
a poor educational system, poor health, poor public services, mediocre
politicians, mediocre authorities, mediocre companies, mediocre roads, mediocre
universities, mediocre schools, mediocre sources of information, telephone systems
mediocre, mediocre energy systems and to continue mentioning the mediocrity in
which we are embedded and all thanks to government policies that have brought
us to this point of outrage. But we also know that it is also our own
responsibility, each of us, citizens, that we have conveniently permitted all
of this, while we engage on television, celebrity cheap, football, cheap reality's
shows, TV series and letting us run over every step and every day for a system
that only considers people as "entities of the market, buyers who have to
go into more debt, using the best marketing tools , communication, excellent speakers,
via financial system and speeches to interest anyone that knows nothing about abusive
interest rates they are being charged.
At a time
when all Chileans are worried, there is a speared of light at the other end of
the world that tells us which way to go. This light is called prof. M. Yunus that
has a different approach and has been highly successful, measurable, and unquestionable
in improving the lives of people and restore dignity to millions of people
around the world, people who were worse off than those who live in Chile. This
opens a force for good in a powerful way, also in developed countries such as
USA, Japan, China, Germany, just to name the some. This is the new social business
economy. Which brings us to the conclusion, and makes it clear that the rich
bankers and their partners will not win? We cannot keep leaving and letting
"they take all from us", please do not despair fellow citizens, the
solution is coming. While banks continue their abuse with their business
partners and between the "rich", there are thousands of people that
got the message. And as always, I repeat that phrase for the Human race that J.F.
Kennedy said once- "when the tide rises, all boats rise." If you
think there are conflicts of interest and we should face them and deal with it,
create it, the storm for the owners of pseudo “Olympia chilensis” is coming from
below, there is a subterranean noise of anger that is growing bigger and bigger
and sooner or later will occur the expected change, not wanting those who are perpetuated
in power, from both sides, but a real democracy, virtuous, honest, ethical and that
we all are called to participate.
Bernardo Javalquinto, Economist, University of Maryland
AA, BSc, MBA, PhD ©
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