Reflections on (I)

Inequity, poverty, development, public administration

And there you go, such an impressive and Sunday-ish title for blog post.
So let us begin with this little capsules, dosages of modern communication:
Santiago is hosting the 10th congress of the CLAD. The President himself attended the opening night and talked to the audience. At 7:30, people were ready to go, clapping, smiling with hopes.
Some others did not have any.
The night was ready to come to an end, and outside, the city was getting ready for a strike from private bus owners servicing the public transportation system.
Public. Private meddling with public.
clic!
Outside as well, a man, a woman, and their child were sleeping over an old mattress. They go there everyday or they had been there for the duration of the Congress. Homeless. A coincidence. Paid by someone to be there. Conspiracy. A sign of our times.. all this to be read with a question mark.
In Chile the State is recovering its center position by getting rid of the fact and the myth of the so-called inefficiency affecting the State, public servants and officials, bureaucrats and the sort.
The public health care system is growing and getting better and modernizing.
Some call for the end of the state and granting of privileges to the private sector. Some claim that the richer the country, the most is produced, a more democratic process will be the result and a general sense of wellbeing and wellfare: plenty of flowers and food and joy to the people.
Myth.
Friedman was wrong and he knows it. Someone might tell this to the neocons and conservatives.
The private sector has one priority which is to make profits. The rest is secondary.
Countries that have privatized the state-owned companies are not in better position than before. Not many of them at least. I, the people, care for the people. I, the money, care for the money.
I think it is very self-explanatory, and just as Alanis sings
Isn't it ironic, don't you think?
:-)
b in James mood