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Post by buenopues on Apr 27, 2016 8:10:47 GMT -5
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Post by barrumundi on Apr 27, 2016 9:20:12 GMT -5
I don't like queues so I might pay a local campesino to stand in the queue for me while I sit in the shade and have a few cold beers.
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Post by billforce on Apr 28, 2016 1:10:23 GMT -5
I don't like queues so I might pay a local campesino to stand in the queue for me while I sit in the shade and have a few cold beers. Bourgeois Gringo.
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Post by billforce on Apr 29, 2016 13:04:08 GMT -5
Although a necessary gesture it doesn't address a greater problem, the NON-employed AKA the thousands who were never gainfully OFFIALLY employed so are eligible for nada. IE: there are three elderly people living in an apt. in Medellin, they had small businesses or some family money in years past but now are in their '80's with ZERO income and absolutely nothing from the Govt. My wife through our own efforts either pay ourselves or with the aid of a couple wealthy benefactors SUPPORT these three old people. My wife buys their groceries at EXITO and has them delivered to the apt., they are too infirmed to even go get them themselves. They are completely DESTITUTE without our help so I have to extrapolate this to literally thousands of older Colombians in the same situation. There is no "welfare" govt. programs that they can bank on. The old ones who never provided for retirement are just cast aside like "dog meat" here. This is not a modern country who would let their former contributing citizens be cast aside to simply die from disease, starvation, loneliness or neglect. This is our leader who would pursue the Peace Prize and let his own elderly die in despair.
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Post by barrumundi on Apr 29, 2016 15:55:12 GMT -5
IDEA !!!!
Maybe the soon to be unemployed FARC can perform a service for the nation. Instead of holding out their hands for a free pension they can earn their keep by caring for the elderly.
Problem solved!
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Post by billyb on Apr 29, 2016 16:05:13 GMT -5
But pretty soon there would be no elderly.
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Post by barrumundi on Apr 29, 2016 16:38:14 GMT -5
But pretty soon there would be no elderly. As I said earlier ...........problem solved jajajajajajaja
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Post by buenopues on Apr 29, 2016 16:54:20 GMT -5
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Post by billforce on Apr 29, 2016 18:10:50 GMT -5
Absolutely worthless, these old people do not qualify for any programs. My wife has investigated every avenue and if you did find an applicable program by the time it took effect these old people would be dead. We buy them groceries every two weeks and if they depended on any Govt. program to manifest itself they would starve, it takes the Govt. a year to respond to anything. How can you tell an infirmed, hungry old person to wait......hunger doesn't wait.
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Post by gallito on Apr 29, 2016 19:21:42 GMT -5
Food subsidies for the unemployed,a tough call...while old and infirm have been neglected by the country for years,no family or at least none with extra pesos to lend a helping hand.50% of Colombians live below the poverty line;to draw the line at the unemployed is unfair to the rest.
Who will organise this;Colombia has problems dealing with a much more difficult process,the peace talks.Where does the money come from;government corruption is up and oil revenue has hit rock bottom...the rich want nothing to do with a tax increase.
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Post by buenopues on Apr 30, 2016 7:53:37 GMT -5
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