1. The union leaders are a bunch of commies always trying to stir up trouble for their own agendas.
2. According to the author, the number of people who attend these demonstrations sounds a tad exaggerated to say the least. It makes it sound as if the entire city is on fire. Not so. These little funfests, and that is what they are, are carried out in a couple of predictable places such as in front of the Social Security Hospital and the University of Panama. They are right across the street from one another. This guarantees the participation of bunch of radical students (and a lot of them aren’t really students) into the fun. (The majority of the students just go home.) It is just a matter of avoiding these areas. The only problem is that it causes traffic jams.
These same folks are going to try and stir up trouble this coming week.
2. True, the government of Panama is crooked, has been, always will be. Everyone in politics has an agenda for himself/herself and that is to get wealthy. What is good for the country and its people is secondary. (Kind of sounds like our own government doesn’t it?)
3. Consider the source.
I did notice the hammer and sickle flag. I tried a Yahoo search for 'social security' and up pops pictures of burning tires! Other searches for just ONE story on Panama pensions came up blank. I resorted to a Google search and could only find something from the Marxists written in 2003.
I can't figure out if the problem is so bad that no one wants to write about it or there is no problem at all.
2. True, the government of Panama is crooked, has been, always will be. Everyone in politics has an agenda for himself/herself and that is to get wealthy. What is good for the country and its people is secondary. (Kind of sounds like our own government doesn’t it?)
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Yes, that's why the power needs to be returned to the individual. It limits corruption and therefore enhances morality. Panama should abolish SS and so we should we. (with appropriate phaseouts)