What do you see in the picture below? Old Boomers collecting Social Security? Old fuckers who should just die?
Well, that’s Senator Lucia Topolansky drinking a traditional tea of yerba mate on the farm she shares with President Jose Mujica. The country is Uruguay.
He makes $120,000 annually. Probably a lot of money in Uruguay. But, he gives away 90% to charities. He drives a beat up old Volkswagen. He refuses to live in the presidential palace. He attends important functions in sandals.
She is very interesting. She comes from a monied background, attended the best schools and studied architecture at a first-rate college. These days, she lives on a ramshackle flower farm with a three-legged dog.
She’s simply not interested in wealth, she says, and she hopes to set an example for her country, and possibly the rest of the world. “Just like people, a government has to dream, and it has to dream big!” Topolansky said. “The government that says it has fulfilled its dreams simply needs to dream bigger.”
She was a real bad-ass in her younger years having served 13 years behind bars as punishment for her involvement in the guerrilla movement … and even orchestrating two stunning jailbreaks.
You will love this.
In 1969 she worked for a private banking institution, Monty Financial House, to fund her way through architecture school. She discovers a black market financial operation going on behind the scenes. She contacts banking regulators and the press. No one listens. So, she contacts some buddies in a rebel group, — the Tupamaros. An armed raid follows. Incriminating papers and ledgers are found. (They also steal a bunch of cash to help fund the cause. lmao). It resulted in the prosecution of high-level bankers!
These two are people of character and accomplishment. They LIVE their convictions. I could support and follow people like this. We need leaders like this in America.
What do we get? Two narcissistic, ego-maniacal, wealth-loving Monkeyfuks of zero accomplishment who lie with every breath they take. (If there is a God, He must hate America.)
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More details here; http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/politics/world-leaders/140329/think-uruguay-s-president-fascinating-meet-his-wife-0
PS: SSS would LOVE this country. President Mujica signed a law making Uruguay the first country on the planet that will grow, harvest, sell and tax marijuana. (I’m glad to know that we Americans are more free than those poor bastards.)
A couple of years ago, a friend lived in Uruguay for about five months, seeking to purchase a farm. We talked a lot via skype. Uruguay is a nice little country, more european than south american. However it is not cheap. You can expect to pay about the same amount for a house and property as you would in most areas of the US. As for standard of living, services of all types are a lot less expensive while hardware items (cars, computers, etc,) are more expensive. While Uruguay is semi-socialist, it is known for a lack of corruption. Climate-wise it is mediterranean. I think it’s largest agricultural product is olives.
I guess we could have a president and a first lady like that if the people actually elected the president.
Visited Montevideo Uruguay a couple years ago, the people were wonderful and very kind. Food was inexpensive, but clothes and gas was pricy. The workers goal is to be unionized over there and once you are in the union it’s hard to terminate employment because they are backed by the government.
A friend of mine met a multi-billionaire years ago on another hunting trip and we were his guest for two weeks of hunting, fishing and traveling between Argentina and Uruguay.
His wife was explaining that any worker you hire, a electrician, a painter, a roofer, etc will provide a cost and once you hire them they can not be fired, most rates are also set by the government. She had hired a painter to paint a bedroom, one month later still not finished, the workers just don’t show. She had signed a contract with a new maid, then she refused to work, to fire a employee you must enter into negotiations, the maid wanted two years severance to quit, the Mrs offered six months but said the standard was one year. Then the people take some time off before looking for more work.
So I guess while the people there are down to earth and simple they still vote for more government, a more gentle and kinder FSA so to speak.
“SSS would LOVE this country. President Mujica signed a law making Uruguay the first country on the planet that will grow, harvest, sell and tax marijuana.”
—-Stucky
We shall see how it works. The whole system won’t be in effect until the middle of this year. Besides, Uruguay isn’t even on the radar screen to international marijuana traffickers, who probably can’t even locate it on a map. On the other hand, the Mexican traffickers know exactly where Colorado is. And it is cheap (couple of tanks of gas + labor) to get their product there. Heh.
Uruguayan President Mujica is an ex-Tupamaro (urban guerrilla), who spent 15 years in prison for being a member of a thuggish Marxist group that specialized in robbery, kidnapping, assassination, and just plain murder. It was one of several Castro wannabe groups in the 60s and 70s.
He should have become a member of Los Desaparacidos. Look it up.
SSS is right. As nice as his current activity seems to be, these Latin American Reds were vicious. murdering scum. The president of Brazil is another one, the daughter of a Bulgarian Jew Communist who was directly involved in the assassination of an American diplomat. I have read people praising the current regime in Venezuela. Negative. Criminal thugs, corrupt narcotics traffickers and Communists dominate the government. Many Americans are deceived about Latin America by our liberal press moaning about the “death squads” and “dirty wars”. These bastards got what they deserved and the only thing to regret is that the army and police missed so many of them..
Legalizing pot is the same as legalizing liquor.
Yes, he was a young, idealist, well prepared but impulsive comunist admirer that paid time in jail for his wrongdoings. As he grew old he did not sell his sould to devile as many have done in Latin America (Madres de Plaza de Mayo is an example), but became more real, mature and less fanatic. A classing “if you are not a leftist at 20, you have no heart. If you are leftist after 40, you have no brain”
Other examples on his lifestyle:
– He does not return to a restaurante if they don’t charge him the full bill.
– He is a nightmare to the security people, because he wants to be at his home alone with his wife. All guards should be outside his property limits
On the political side
– He was strongly questioned by his party about teaching English in Uruguay schools (if you are leftist in Latin America, your number one obligation is to hate the USA). So his answer was that English should be thaught because “…English is not the language spoken by the Yankees, but the language used by the Chinese to talk to the rest of the world”
– In a meeting with “intelectuals” he saide the folloging (free translation) “The intelligence that pays off to a country is distributed intelligence.
It is one that is not only stored in laboratories or universities, but walking down the street.
The intelligence that is used for planting, to lathe, to drive a forklift or to program a computer, to cook, to cater well to a tourist, is the same intelligence.
Some go up more steps than others, but it is the same ladder.
And the lower steps are the same for a nuclear physicist and a farmer. For all them is required the same curious look, hunger for knowledge and nonconformity.
We end up knowing, because first we were uncomfortable by not knowing.
Sancho, that is all well and good, but your missing the thing most difficult to find..your genetic history that exists in YOU.
Then you will know from whence you came and how thought, being, came to be.
intellectuals are rote trained fools repeating stuff, even when it’s wrong, to please the other rote trained genius. History is written by the victor.
We, as beings upon this organic starship, are not taught the truth, for the teachers don’t know it. What this man believes in or has done does not make him, or her, a piped piper.
After seeing that picture I suspect Stucky is the President of Uruguay.
“Uruguayan President Mujica … spent 15 years in prison for being a member of a thuggish Marxist group that specialized in robbery, kidnapping, assassination, and just plain murder.” ——- SSS
And I suppose the government he was rebelling against were just honest, peaceful, kind, selfless, humble, and loving leaders who put the people first.
By your definition our Founding Fathers were thuggish terrorists also. The British certainly thought so.
I’m not as super smart as you. Really. I don’t know jack shit about their past. In your book I suppose past misdeeds — real or imagined — are unforgivable. No one is allowed to grow, learn, and move forward. Once a commie, always a commie! Right?
The little I know about them is from that article … how they live NOW … and it is impressive, and other leaders would do well to follow their example. But you prefer to shit on them.
They still look like obese boomers to me. These backwater countries are often run by “the people”, unlike our socialist fascist police welfare state.
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“The government that says it has fulfilled its dreams simply needs to dream bigger.” – Lucia Topolansky
I wish the government would dream about how to get rid of itself.