The Government of Peru! Anti People Orientated

The Government of Peru! Anti People Orientated

I’ve been t, or in, Peru nine times, lived there for two years in one stretch, and I’ve yet to understand their way of thinking, but it looks to me they are far from being society orientated for the people, rather for the government. The people are warm, but they will rob you in a blink of an eye. The Government is the host to all this robbery, they do little about it (and you can buy your way out of anything, a reckless driving ticket will cost you $6.), no wonder they say Peru is the most corrupt country in South America, it is true. Sorry to say but the government is cold towards their own people. They have the highest telephone bills in all South America, why I don’t know, but someone is getting rich off the poor. They have all these natural resources, oil, and natural gas, and the gas prices are sky high, and the people in the mountains and small villages, that have no source of security or money to buy heat have to fend for themselves. An example is, the government will send those folks blankets, why not gas heaters, and natural gas, like the rich folks in Lima, who really do not need them half as much? It is cold in the Andes in winter. And for the policing, they pay taxes, yet it is up to the community to keep the village safe, unless you want less then less, and the Government spends millions on trying to make Machu Picchu look pretty, and what do they do with the pretty money?
The last three presidents have been said to have robbed the country blind, and the one they got now, ran to Paris for ten-years—lived pretty good, after he brought the country to its knees, with 1000% inflation, and now is walking around like a peacock because his country is doing well, and he thinks it is his doings: it is doing well because Bush is doing bad, and the previous two presidents, Fujimori took care of the bad guys, and Toledo, took care of the economy, Garcia, the now president, takes care of his stomach, he is as large as a whale, and does little more—the best I can say for him is he has started an education program, thank goodness, 14-year olds could previously, teach the teachers, and this is not a joke, they are now failing the tests to be reissued a teachers license and the tests have been passed by pre college students, some at the age of 14.
In addition, Garcia took away the pensions of thousands of people trying to retire under the old law, thus making a new one; the problem with this is, people over 40 in Peru, cannot find a job, the government does not have a policy where the company or employer has to hire you equally, they take the young, and throw the old in the gutter, no matter what they know and can do. The old pension policy, helped with people being able to retire early, in such cases, now they starve to death, or rob the neighbor. The people have caught on to this, and are of cause helpless, and so they take the law into their own hands, since there is no law, nor relief, and corruption breeds’ corruption.

President Garcia says he wants to fight corruption in Peru, I’ve found out in my time in Peru, he’s been more the problem, than the solution. Perhaps he feels he did his penitence in Paris, the past ten-years, after robbing the country blind, and running from the law, until the statue of limitations ran out. Anyhow, in San Juan Miraflores, where I live, and know the Mayor, a district of Lima, 340,000 residents, for the city is between 5 to 8 million, depending on how much of the city you want to put into the gamut of data. Here, if you go to the municipality, for a complaint, they will try to do everything to keep you away from the Mayor. If your district says you can build a four story building, for $3000-dollars you can build an illegal fifth floor (how do I know this, the owner of a building is building his fifth floor right as I write this now, up the block from my house, I talked to him how much he had to slip the clerk), just do not let the Mayor know; the whole construction area is plagued with illegal activity, as is the police force. I can’t say the Mayor is, but his people that work for him are.
Matter of fact, they send out bogus bills for $250-dollars if you do not show your tax forms on time (house tax); if you cannot show them the past ten-years of your taxes also, you have to pay in addition to the $250 fine, ten-years back taxes on your house, or from the day you built it. And if you do not pay, they put it on your house taxes, which then, the house can be taken away with in a matter of months or years, it is up to them. And they got your taxes anyhow in the file next to them, but legally, they do not have to pull open the drawer, and they don’t.