Message-ID: <199612190453.UAA02578@anditel.andinet.lat.net> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 20:52:19 +0000 From: Reinaldo Vicini <mailto:interext@ANDITEL.ANDINET.LAT.NET> Subject: Re: Truck troubles To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Dear Dave and friends:Not really a topic for peace and love in this time of the year.
Your point is very interesting. I get to see things like this everyday in my country. But why? Certainly because the government and whatever it does is simply UNRELIABLE!!. I do not mean every government, but most of those in Latin America are. And if you compare, taxes are not cheaper than in other countries, which means that a higher portion of income is taken for tax paying.
Take your example, for instance. If that bridge would have been fixed by the truck companies, they would have been arrested because the bridge is government property. We have to wait for the Public Works Office to fix it and it takes twice as much time and money to get it done, and six months later the bridge is in troubles again.
Furthermore, we applaud that the private sector is taking on tasks carry out by government. Of course, the Government gets the money of privatisations, does not lower its taxes, and people have to pay additionally for such service. But we prefer a good infrastructure, so we have to pay for it.
We just had news from our national newspaper and it is the tale of two roads: one built by the private sector that took only 22 months to build, five months before plans, and another one, same lenght, that took twenty years to build, executed by the government with less specifications costing millions and millions of dollars more. Is that fair? It is certainly more profitable to the economy to leave private sector developing infrastructure, leaving public sector as regulators and taking charge of the economy, law and order. Never mind our congress...
Me and most people, as citizens, stare impotents to see how wasted our tax money is and how incapable and corrupt -I do not see another explanation- our public sector managers are managing -or stealing- our hard-earned money. God help us.
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