PUERTO CHIPRE

THE NEWS are there.  When one thinks no more surprises can appear as in a nightmare, the horror movie is about the same no matter the latitude/longitude.

Now is Chipre, the divided isle, where everyjuan's savings have been kidnapped, as if non politicians/bankers were guilty of the bankruptcy.

In Puerto Rico the solution will be similar,  only with taxation, a little different, with the same result, making the victims of stupidity, avarice, lack of vision for six decades to pay cash for the constant mistakes of the public servants, bankers and feeble minded politicians elected by the populace.

Check this out. The local news media have embraced with total pity/compassion the state
pensioners who have lost everything at this time, and in the future.  However, I read a somewhat drastic view from an retired worker from the private sector.

The state pensioners received until now. half their salary, worked less than 8 hours,  accumulated 30/30/20, vacation, sick time and holydays per year, a summer bonus, another in Christmas and so on... In the private sector the story is less than one half all those benefits, plus having to work thirty percent more hours than their counterparts.

The author feels no pity, no regrets, concluding that they had it nice and easy while it lasted, now is time to count them blessings....gone for ever.

On other issues...bullying is a  news fad, musicals have been created to fight it...as it was something new. I met it 52 years ago...but it had no name, it was not baptized then.

School deserters are also in,  Why do people leave schools?  Well, you do not need to be a Rhodes scholar to understand the issue with a little introspection. What is the point  of becoming this or that if there no job after you have reached the finish line with a diploma?

Or the available jobs are mostly flipping burgers, frying chicken, waitressing or becoming a career watchmen working for peanuts?

There is something much worse. In Puerto Rico there is one university per mile, 80 or more. The market is saturated with low quality graduates. Anyjuan seems to have a degree of any kind.

Going to college is just a four year pass time, without any meaning if you consider the possibilities of entering the job market, which is zero.


In brief,  education, universities, the school system as part of the whole scheme of society, church, family and government failed to do what they were supposed to do.  Without any accountability, most people took what they could and ran.

Now every where I look, it is the same chaos without any imaginative, permanent solution provided. It seems that parches here and there for the moment will suffice.

So long 'looking for a better future'