RE: Feeding People

["Cynthia Nadalini" <invenia@guate.net>]

John Pryor wrote:
"DeSoto's vision of this level of transformation is very impressive but the
extent to which local political leadership will be open to such
transformational change is the challenge."

I live in a Third World Country, which is not different of what Hernan
DeSoto described about Peru, not different at all.  And what I think is that
our local political leadership is far from undestanding what kind of
transformation is needed.  Even more, I don´t think they care at all.  You
can see it from all the weight they´ve gained, all the trips they´ve done
and all the material things they´ve bought been in the Government.  They´ve
made it their way of living.  And I´m not talking of a particular
Government, Latinamerica has lived that way all their lives.

The worst thing is they (the political leadership) don´t have a systemic
vision at all.  They can´t see that while they´re optimizing their lives,
they´re suboptimizing the nation.  There is this side of my country where
people is starting to die from hunger.  They´re dying because it has not
rained and their crops couldn´t grow.  And they´re not dying because they
couldn´t sell their crops, they are so poor they grow corn and beans just to
survive.  That´s what they eat all the time: corn and beans, two times a
day...just that.

I belong to the middle class in our country, and belong to the 0.05% or
less, of the people that is lucky to have a postgrade degree.  If I´d live
in the US with the salary I earn here, I would be clasified as poor.  And
I´m one of the lucky ones.

Legallized industries are on their way to extintion, the Government insists
that the way to resolve the problems is to make us (middle class, basicly)
pay more taxes.  You can go easier to jail if you don´t pay taxes than if
you are a murderer or a thief or a kidnapper.  They don´t undestand that the
taxes we should pay (but can´t afford to pay because our economy is not
growing, and economy is not growing because af all the unfortunate policies
and constant change of rules made by the Government and the International
inherency), and mainly, the way those taxes are misused, is making
undergroung economy grow.  And underground economy is never going to be able
to compete with globalization.

High and middle class people in my country are joining now to get food and
medicine for those people that are dying from hunger, since the Government
is not doing anything to help them.  You know what our Vicepresident said?:
"why don´t you pay taxes instead?" He just doesn´t get it.

How would they know? Deming would say...

Best wishes.

Cynthia N.
INVENIA
invenia@guate.net
Tel. (502) 336-9669