No monopoly on corruption!
Don't think that you guys have cornered the market in corruption!
Can you imagine working for a Company that has a little more than 600 employees and has the following employee statistics?
29 have been accused of spouse abuse.
7 have been arrested for fraud.
9 have been accused of writing bad cheque's.
17 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses.
3 have done time for assault.
71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit.
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges.
8 have been arrested for shoplifting.
21 are currently defendants in lawsuits.
84 have been arrested for drink driving in the last year.
Which organization is this?
It's the 635 members of the UK House of Commons, the same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us Brits inline.
What a bunch of be*****ds we have running our country - it says it all.
And just to top all that they probably have the best 'corporate' pension scheme in the country!
Hotman.
Kirchner the economic guru!
"Not one single job must be lost." The leader in today's Herald is a statement made by Nestor Kirchner and certainly confirms how far removed his public statements are from commercial reality. His follow-up comment that he had "warned about the incorrect working of the international economy's structure", is also a good indication of his political know-how, not his economic savyness. I would like to comment on both statements.
Firstly though, of all the countries that survive on exports, Argentina should be the one in the best position to be least affected. The problem is one of modern derivative financial markets, credit and banking; to which Argentina was not greatly exposed, simply by virtue of its eight year exclusion from international credit markets and its almost nonexistent banking and stock markets. So only marginal exposure to the international crisis. Any crisis here is self-induced and unrelated to the rest of the world. And guess who dictated policy post the corralito (2002) No prizes if you said Nestor Kirchner. Certainly the downturn in agricultural commodities will hurt the Argentine economy but in reality, today's commodity prices are really better than the historical mean; not fantastic but certainly not basement prices.
Mr. Kirchner's claimed prescience in the context of today's statement is news to me. Any comments that he made in the past, (and he has made many) have been simply rhetoric to support and shore-up his set position ("lend us money") in relation to Argentina being closed out of international financial markets. To attempt to attribute those statements to the position of the current world recession is plainly claiming credit for something he did not do, and would put him, if it was true, to be nominated for the Nobel prize in Economics. In two words: Not likely.
A company's primary obligation is to their shareholders. Without profits and the subsequent dividends, no shareholders would risk their hard-earned capital. To expect companies to retain unneeded labour and disregard their obligations to their owners, can be a criminal offence in most western jurisdictions. By using the term 'businessmen', it creates the impression that most company owners are sole traders and have been so prosperous that they can afford to have labour sitting around fully paid. And that is obviously what the 'public' Mr. Kirchner would want. But most companies are not sole traders and labour is just one cost that must be reviewed when business declines. Rents, utilities, finance etc all need to be carefully adjusted to reflect their proportional costs to the end product of their company. And labour is no different. Social support in times of distress is the responsibility of society and good government ought to have contingency plans for just those situations. If he applies his 'public' economic savyness to his hotel interests, he will certainly go broke. After all, if there are no beds to be made and no rooms to clean, why would you have staff sitting around? All of which I am sure Mr. Kirchner is aware and of which I am also sure, that his labour inputs will be adjusted to the demands of his hotels.
Perhaps his inane public statements might vary from his private business. After all, how did he get so rich?
Argento.
Sent to the BA Herald today.
Trouble with this is that it isn't true
This is my first post.
This canard has been floating around internet for a decade in various guises although the numbers are always the same. First started about the US Congress. Canadian Parliament has been tarred with the same exact report. Lots of stuff out there on the Internet. Some of it is true.
On this particular item see this link:
[url]http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/congress.asp[/url]
[QUOTE=Hotman 666]Don't think that you guys have cornered the market in corruption!
Can you imagine working for a Company that has a little more than 600 employees and has the following employee statistics?
29 have been accused of spouse abuse.
7 have been arrested for fraud.
9 have been accused of writing bad cheque's.
17 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses.
3 have done time for assault.
71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit.
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges.
8 have been arrested for shoplifting.
21 are currently defendants in lawsuits.
84 have been arrested for drink driving in the last year.
Which organization is this?
It's the 635 members of the UK House of Commons, the same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us Brits inline.
What a bunch of be*****ds we have running our country - it says it all.
And just to top all that they probably have the best 'corporate' pension scheme in the country!
Hotman.[/QUOTE]
Arrest of the director of the customs of Ezeiza busted
Never ceases to amaze me the depth of corruption here. EZE Customs boss busted.
[url]http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clarin.com%2Fdiario%2F2010%2F03%2F11%2Fpoliciales%2Fg-02156857.htm&sl=es&tl=en[/url]
He didn't think that he needed to pay the judge
[QUOTE=Damman]Never ceases to amaze me the depth of corruption here. EZE Customs boss busted.
[url]http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clarin.com%2Fdiario%2F2010%2F03%2F11%2Fpoliciales%2Fg-02156857.htm&sl=es&tl=en[/url][/QUOTE]Clearly, he must have pissed off the wrong guy. Either that or someone further up the criminal food chain needed to throw the authorities a decent bone. These guys don't get busted due to dogged detective work. They are protected.