Letters to the editor: Plan and grow, posters, Congress
Plan and grow
The country is changing at a dizzying speed. Many positive changes have been introduced, but they are very difficult to predict with the precision required by a national budget. Public works that have been completely halted also require investment; we must not wait any longer. There is no money in the budget for them, although private entrepreneurs could undertake them using creative formulas like those offered by the Laura Highway Plan, financing these and rural roads with just cents per liter consumed in the country over the next 30 years. It is a way to complete the works now and finance them long-term. The country today must create this type of financing with more imagination and without the state having to provide money. Milei himself is inviting private entrepreneurs to carry out these tasks, supporting a reformed, small, and efficient state operating in a country with a completely modernized legal framework, where private companies will play the most important role in the economy. In this way, our country will once again be able to plan, budget, and grow.
Ricardo Olaviaga
Posters
Legislators from the Union for the Homeland party placed a sign on their benches that read: “Free Cristina” (sic).
With the greatest respect, wouldn't it have been better to put: "Innocent Cristina"?
Roberto A. Meneghini
The Congress
As a citizen, I have voted many times, so much so that I have filled every spot on the old voter registration book. I voted for representatives and senators, as well as for some other council members. Given the current circumstances, and seeing the behavior of these members of Congress, I have decided, taking advantage of the option not to vote due to my advanced age, that I will not do so again until the word "honorable" is removed from the name of that marvelous building, Congress. What goes on in there is absolutely nothing honorable about it. Watching a session is horrifying. I hope they realize what a fool they are. I hope to one day see it called simply the Congress of the Argentine Nation.
Raúl Bernardini
DNI 4,396,774
Is emigration the future?
Since December 10, 1983, when the first National Congress was formed, following the democratic restoration that brought Raúl Alfonsín to the presidency of the nation, the institutional and academic quality of our legislators, with a dozen exceptions, has been degraded daily. The last session in the Chamber of Deputies, held on July 2, was the final straw. The speeches by Cecilia Moreau, Luana Volnovich, and Florencia Carignano were of a shocking intellectual dullness. They were only shouts and outbursts worthy of the deranged. The heckling of Representative José Luis Espert by Representatives Carignano, Penacca, Siley, Pokoik, and Monzón, and Representative Manrique, using low-class vocabulary, was an undignified and vulgar spectacle, unbecoming of representatives of the nation. The libertarian representatives, who defended Representative Espert, were not far behind. Marcela Pagano, giving the quorum, and Lilia Lemoine, filming, contributed their share of personalism. Until today, we knew of the low intellectual quality of the deputies and senators who, during these 42 years of democracy, have not resolved any of the country's basic problems in terms of education, security, health, and justice. In addition to the proven ones, we suspect many other acts of corruption. Will we return to the days when foreign embassies and consulates were packed with young people determined to emigrate?
We will know in the coming months of September and October.
Gabriel C. Varela
DNI 4,541,802
Floods
Flooding continues in the province of Buenos Aires, with no intention of solving the problem with the remaining hydraulic engineering infrastructure projects, the budget for which has been approved by the Duhalde administration. Indifference to the tragedy this represents for the rural areas, the economic lifeblood of our country.
Clara Blanco Pinto
DNI 5,155,426
The Argentine drama
On July 1, a letter from editor Jorge Bottino aptly referred to Argentina's true tragedy: education, specifically attributing it to the decline in primary school standards. I fully share his views and note that in my doctoral thesis, defended at the University of Salvador in November 2021, I specifically praised the national teacher training college, illustrating her with the following phrase: "The national teacher training college was an example worthy of imitation." I also highlighted the role of the teacher who receives interns in their classrooms, considering them not simply recipients of these internships, but rather a prominent member of the teaching practice team.
Although educational changes in this century have been dizzying, we must vindicate the role of the primary school teacher as an essential pillar for the education of future citizens.
María Teresa Armas
armasmariateresagmail.com
Judges of others
I'm tired, or rather exhausted, of seeing how society judges the lives of others. Everyone is a professional in every field, but no one has a degree in anything. The big problem today is the difficulty in establishing relationships; it seems there are judges who assess whether the lives of others are good or bad. Nowadays, no one can engage in self-criticism. Enough with the occasional opinion-monger and petty vigilante. Those types of people who pretend they know it all are the first to demonstrate, with their actions, a lack of humanity, empathy, and critical thinking. Don't lecture us when your own lives are miserable.
Veronica Ciolli Ceccato
DNI 28.620.548
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