It's outrageous to see how the traffic camera system in Buenos Aires Province has turned into a blatant money grab. 45 billion pesos in just six months? That’s insane! It feels like instead of focusing on road safety, the whole thing is set up just to line the pockets of a few. And now we find out that judges and lawyers are involved too, while regular citizens like us are the ones paying the price. You can’t trust a system that seems rigged to squeeze every last peso out of us. It’s a disgrace!
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Uncle Wong
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Locals drive crazy. I thought they were some of the worst drivers in the world. Traffic cameras probably will make the city $$$$$ with as bad drivers as I saw during my trip.
This guy receives a privileged pension of 13,082,809 pesos every month just for having been president for two days. These are the kinds of things that need to change, it's disgraceful! Everyone should follow Milei’s example and either renounce that pension or accept a more modest amount. They make cuts in the most vulnerable sectors while we have people like this collecting huge sums. This is where they need to trim back. Damn politicians, their greed and ambition always come first!
The justice system is investigating irregularities in the granting of benefits to Malvinas war veterans who receive pensions for it. It’s estimated that there are about 9,000 fake veterans, who are actually members of La Cámpora. No matter where you look, there seems to be something illegal.
Betsy Ross
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Argentina is full of these types of scams. I always joke that if they just cut all the scams the country would be rich and have plenty of money. Billions of dollars each year on all kinds of scams.
earlyretirement
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This is very true @Betsy Ross. The country is plagued with corruption and inefficiencies. It's mind-boggling. And not just corruption but broken systems with the employment and labor laws.
Fortunately I didn't have many incidents of bad employees or rogue employees that tried to take advantage of the labor and employment laws. But I do remember one employee that did. It was shortly after I sold my company. There was an employee that was pregnant and had a child. She claimed to be sick for a long time after having the baby. At the time, you couldn't easily fire an employee in this situation. And we still had to pay partial salary to her. I sold my company so didn't think about it again but then I heard that she had another kid and did the same thing. It was years and years of her being on the payroll without not easily being able to terminate her.
There are lots of corruption there even if it's not outright, the laws and system there allow it. All that needs to be cleaned up there and the laws changed to prevent this.
Uncle Wong
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In speaking to some locals this sort of thing seems to be common there. Probably all of that needs to be fixed before many bigger companies will want to come and start companies there.
Strange. I wonder why they do it that way? Some tax reasons?
Did some digging and it's complex, from logistics to costs to how cargo containers get returned and not all of it being sold to the just US.
Digital Nomad
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That is nuts it goes all the way there and ends up in the USA.
drewst
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Wow, I don’t understand why the whole process isn’t done here and then exported. I imagine there must be some logical explanation... or maybe not, LOL! It sounds pretty inefficient, but I guess it has something to do with some kind of trade deal.
Yet another case comes to light, showing how examples of corruption from previous administrations keep surfacing. Five Kirchnerist militants who didn’t work for 118 days but kept getting paid... and to top it off, one of them was the son of a former director of the Congressional social security office. This just shows how nepotism and mismanagement continue to be an issue in the country. It's unbelievable that these things keep happening while people struggle every day just to make ends meet.
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Cinco militantes kirchneristas estuvieron 118 días sin trabajar en la obra social del Congreso: renunciaron en julio
En el lote de los ahora ex agentes se encontraba el hijo de la ex directora de la entidad, la cristinista Liliana Korenfeld. Era planta permanente y tenía la categoría más alta
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Betsy Ross
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These amounts are staggering. I'm not sure if these amounts can be correct. If they can just get rid of all the fraud and corruption Argentina would be in a much different situation.
Lucia
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More irregularities in disability pensions keep coming to light. It's incredible how little oversight there was in previous administrations.
GraceHill
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Is there some spreadsheet or total listed anywhere of the total amount of dollars that they have uncovered with fraud? How much is being saved heading into the future so far with all this fraud stopped?
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