More Bolivians Receive Social Assistance

[Judi Lynn]

More Bolivians Receive Social Assistance

La Paz, Jan 2 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian Ministry of Economy and Public Finance and the National Institute of Statistics reported that at least 3.2 million people receive economic support from the Government through welfare stamps.
Such support responds to the governmental wealth redistribution policy aimed to curb poverty.

Luis Arce, Minister of Economy, explained that the subsidies will be in effect until the government's goals are achieved.

The 2014 general State budget allocated 458 million dollars to guarantee the subsidies this year, a 25-percent increase against 367 million allocated in 2013.

According to the journal La Razón, the stamps are financed by the profits from nationalized companies, part of direct taxes on hydrocarbons, the Indigenous Peoples' Fund and the General National Treasury.

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[Flatulo]

1. Eeesh. I really cringe at the thought of being totally dependant

on direct government handouts for survival.

If income distribution is too skewed, I'd rather see the tax code used to rectify the imbalance.

Everyone who is able should have to work to survive, but if work cannot provide a living income (like here in the states) wages should be adjusted accordingly. The very wealthy should shoulder the lions share of the costs of supporting infrastructure, since they're the primary beneficiaries. But everyone should have to pitch in something, just to have some skin in the game.

[Judi Lynn]

2. These same people who may be getting meager rations now were forbidden to walk on the sidewalk

until after the revolution of 1952, not to mention being allowed to vote.

They have been abused hideously: murdered, tortured, mutilated, and are STILL the object of violent hatred from the filthy European-descended scum controlling their country in societal, financial ways long into the future.

The filthy spawn of Nazi-sympathizers in Croatia in areas like Santa Cruz still take clubs embedded with spikes, and go for joy-rides into the neighborhoods of the poor indigenous, and lay waste to them. They also have invaded their radio stations and burned their radio hosts alive, beat, kick, massacre them whenever and wherever it's possible.

Your arm-chair pronouncements of how the people SHOULD do things in Bolivia would fall on so many deaf ears. Many of us have taken the time to try to learn what happened and happens there, as a duty to our consciences.

[Flatulo]

3. I would think that the greatest gift they could receive

would be freedom, not dependency.