Argentines Give Thanks for Jobs

[gorbal]

By BILL CORMIER
The Associated Press
Monday, August 7, 2006; 7:14 PM

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Thousands of Argentines traveled to a religious shrine Monday, some tearfully raising stalks of wheat symbolizing jobs gained, to give thanks for an improving economy that has cut the unemployment rate to close to single digits for the first time in 13 years.

Four years after the worst economic crisis on record shattered the job market in South America's second-largest economy, Argentines made their annual pilgrimage to a Roman Catholic Church of San Cayetano _ a saint revered as the patron of bread, jobs and prosperity.

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More here-

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/07/AR2006080701020.html

Though you might want to keep abreast about the rest of Latin America:)

[Erika]

1. As the non US living standard raises

ours lower. Corporate socialist globalism pushed by W and the pwer brokers.

[robinlynne]

2. socialist? why did you stick socialist in there?

nothing socialist about this government, not even a hangnail.

[Erika]

3. Why socialist?

The government has stated our need to spread the wealth globally. This has been done by the lowering of our standard of living while raising others. That is socialism.

Note the rich do not have a role in this wealth redistribution.

[robinlynne]

4. no. that is not socialism, nor is our government "spreading the wealth

globally.' but at least now I understand what you meant to say.

[Erika]

5. Do you deny our wealth is being depleted

by globalization?

[robinlynne]

8. Our wealth is being concentrated into the hands of 1% of the population.

Our money is going to the Cheneys and Frists pockets, not to people all over the world. Globalization, per se, could have been a good thing. But what we have here is capitalism in its most decadent exaggerated form. Globalization is only one more way in which the richest of the rich here earn more money, because they can make more profit form workers earning less. Obviously i'm oversimplifying, but my point is, it is not the workers in mexico who are taking our wealth. it is the richest american families and owners of big business. Socialism would be the exact opposite.

[ShockediSay]

6. "the rich do not have a role?" I beg to differ

Seems like the rich get richer at the expense of everyone else.

[Sherman A1]

7. Agreed

As the rich find more and more ways to arrange the system to their liking and benefit, they do most certainly have a role in reducing everyone else's share of the wealth. Everyone is entitled to believe as they wish, but I find it very difficult to not notice the stagnate wages of the poor and middle class workers and the growing wealth of the upper and elite classes in this country.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. Physics question for y'all

What does an electron have, that can be either +0.5 or -0.5? Go look it up.

[Peace Patriot]

10. This article from AP/WaPo is utter crap, as usual. There are 4 main

reasons for Argentina's economic recovery: 1) Massive protests against World Bank/IMF crippling debt polices by a coalition of the poor and the middle class; 2) the particular protest of this coalition of taking tiny hammers and breaking all the ATM display windows in all the banks in the country, for their collusion with the World Bank/IMF; 3) these protests brought down several fascist/corporatist governments, until a center/left government was finally put in place which vowed to pay off the debt and NEVER get into debt to the World Bank again; and 4) VENEZUELA, with its oil riches, and its sympathetic leftist government, BOUGHT OUT a big portion of Argentina's debt, on friendly terms, in an act of regional solidarity (--Argentina is now FREE of World Bank debt and IMF policy, which was insisting on taking the debt out of the hide of the poorest people).

And, freed from this crippling debt, Argentina's economy has soared. Its creative and productive energies have been released. Social justice and prosperity go hand in hand.

Saint Cajetan may have had some part in it--I don't know. I sometimes wonder (especially these days) about the mystical side of Latin America (which is not just Catholic, it's also Indian). But AP-WaPo would rather be dumped under a 500-lb bunker buster in Iraq than admit that it was MASS PROTESTS, A PEOPLES' UPRISING, DAMAGING BANK ATM DISPLAYS, MASS REJECTION OF WORLD BANK/IMF "NEO-LIBERALISM" (international theft), and HUGO CHAVEZ that are the keys to Argentina's recovery.

And they say not one word. Not one word. NOT ONE WORD! --about the peaceful, democratic, leftist (majorityist) revolution that is raising all boats in Latin America, nor of the remarkable success of ORDINARY PEOPLE AND MASS PROTEST in turning Argentina around!

They ought to be horse-whipped for this article! But probably San Cayetano wouldn't approve of it!

[SoCalDem]

11. Misplaced thanks, methinks

:)

It always amazes me when people routinely give thanks to a diety for good fortune, when there is usually a worldly explanation :)

It could just be that with the help of venezuela and the release from crushing IMF/WorlsBank debt, the economy is reawakening..

By ascribing it to godly intervention, it allows for a future lapse of sanity when it comes time to vote...or to require vigilance when it comes to watching the government's actions..

I guess people down deep, just like to pass on the responsibility so they don;t have to think about it