User blog comment:Baluar/This country fucking sucks/@comment-27188908-20150921034058/@comment-14812118-20150921040009

Yeah, I know there are countries that fare even worse than Argentina, but what worries me is how quickly we've became a country who has corruption, poverty and insecurity unbefitting of our potential.

I mean, seriously. History shows this country always goes downhill. Back in the early 1910's, we were more or less on the same economic level as the USA. Let that sink in for a minute. And it was no big economical difference between us and them that caused us to fall, oh no. The difference was that, while they got the fellas that knew how and where to act, here we got the jerks who wanted money for themselves, the rest of the world be damned.

The government we have now speaks of "The Won Decade". And yes, we have won lots of things, like corruption and insecurity. The country is full of people who'd gladly stab you in the back (both figuratively and literally) for some money.

Let me give you an example. Last week a potential candidate of one of the opposition's political parties for a "deputy" (a representative of one of the Legislative part of the government) gave up his candidate status because he had a judicial cause for illegally getting money (not sure what is the right word - here we call it "washing money"; it woild boil down to getting money illegally and using legally dubious means to make it enter normal circulation). Everyone in the government began to complain: "My god, how could he even dare to enter the elections when he is being investigated by justice?" Our president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, even did a (horrible) pun with the guy's name last day, when she was all across tv. "[while talking about the fella] No lo Niembro ['Niembro being the guy's name, the pun being 'No lo nombro', i.e. 'I won't name him.']"

She is being investigated by 117 different potential crimes. Yes, one fucking hundred and seventeen crimes. Plus all the ones we don't know.

Having the potential to go away to a place where things aren't always changing for the bad, why wouldn't I use it?