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 2006/08/16 - José Carlos RodríguezIgnorant for our own GoodRecently, parliament passed one of the worst laws in recent memory. However, it has gone unnoticed. Perhaps we can’t keep pace with the rate of legislative inflation. I am referring to the new Medicine Law which, among its many sections, includes a most hypocritical and surprising measure.
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2006/07/30 - José Carlos RodríguezMinimum Wage and Progressive RacismLead by George W. Bush’s heavy hand, Republicans have abandoned principle in some small corner of a dark closet. The last straw came when they proposed and passed a law that raised the minimum wage while sneaking in a reduction in the death tax.
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 2006/07/23 - Gabriel CalzadaRenewable PrivilegesProducers of so-called renewable energies have become one of the most privileged social groups of our time, ensconced in environmental myths and frauds. The final consumer subsidizes the price of renewable energy at 575 percent compared to traditional electricity rates.
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 2006/05/25 - Jorge ValínTwo Types Of Immigration, A Single SolutionBoth the United States and Spain are going to institute policies to try to control immigration. During the laissez faire period, before the welfare state system, immigration was never a problem, just the opposite.
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2006/05/21 - Gabriel CalzadaPublic Services And XenophobiaEveryone is alarmed because 647 immigrants got to the Canary Islands on a small boat last Thursday. It is a new record of “undocumented” aliens arriving in one day: 80 people more that the previous record from August 18th, 2001. The previous Saturday, 456 people reach the Islands.
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2006/05/18 - Jorge ValínNationalization Is Robbery And Evo A CriminalImagine I decree your house no longer belongs to you because you took possession of it using a contract I deem illegal. I then tell you, either you pay me rent to keep living there or I will send in my armed forces to through you out on the street. If you decide to stay, you will remain under watch and subject to my whims. |
2006/05/14 - Gabriel CalzadaNatives After The Oil CompaniesA “beautiful democratic experience” is taking place in Bolivia. Dictator Evo Morales is taking advice from island tyrant Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, leader of the also very beautiful Venezuelan democratic experience.
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2006/05/14 - José Carlos RodríguezThe Stamp ConThe state feeds off crises, as Robert Higgins tells us in his book Crisis and Leviathan. When there is a problem in the network of human relations that make up society, when something unfortunate happens and when cries of despair reach the heaven, everyone looks to the state for solutions, demanding action, power and regulation.
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 2006/05/09 - Daniel Rodríguez HerreraBill Gates’ Real MeritIn keeping with tradition, the Prince of Asturias prize committee has decided to give its award for International Cooperation to someone who can ensure the prize’s prestige grows outside our borders.
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2006/05/07 - José Carlos RodríguezRich, But Poor“It is unbelievable they are so poor, when their country is so rich,” is the usual refrain for countries like Bolivia, which might have the poorest citizens in the Americas and which also hides enormous amounts of natural gas beneath its soil. The same can be said of Venezuela or other Latin American countries, immersed in an exuberant and ferocious environment. How can some societies be so poor and live in lands so “rich” in natural resources?
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