May 29, 2008    All Ecuadoreans today live off other people's money, whether it be the state's badly run socialized medical care, the horrifyingly Marxist state education curricula that is devoid of anything remotely resembling education for young people in today's world, the incessant state tax grabs from any employer stupid enough to participate in the statist asset seizures from the private sector or by participating in what Correa's government does best- sell us all extortion rackets which Ecuadoreans stupidly buy for protection and the "right" to pretend that what used to be their private property may still be their private property, if Correa's bribes are paid or they do not ever once open their mouths.
 
Ecuadoreans need to stop living off of someone else's money. Concurrently, Ecuadoreans must have and hold legal jobs which are based on a merit system for job performance and nothing else.
 
ECrisis commends the American Thinker for its piece today called Getting off Hugo Chavez's payroll by Ed Lasky:
"Among the more shameful political episodes in local American and British politics of the last few years, the accepting of subsidized oil from Marxist dictator-wannabe Hugo Chavez ranks among the most obvious. The new mayor of London, Boris Johnson has enough courage to tell his constituents that accepting bribes from an enemy of freedom is not a good idea. From the Wall Street Journal Europe:

New London Mayor Boris Johnson wasted no time in taking his city off Hugo Chávez's PR payroll.

Elected earlier this month, Mr. Johnson has announced that the city won't renew a deal with the Venezuelan strongman to get cheap oil to subsidize bus fares for London residents. "I think many Londoners felt uncomfortable about the bus operation of one of the world's financial powerhouses being funded by . . . a country where many people live in extreme poverty," the Conservative Mayor explained Sunday.

American Thinker has written before about some Democratic Congressmen having close ties to Chavez-those ties include the subsidizing of oil for their constituents. This is a shameful practice, for Chavez is an enemy of freedom."
 
You read it here first: praise for a man who had the guts/ the  "courage to tell his constituents that accepting bribes from an enemy of freedom is not a good idea."

Can you imagine that Rafael Correa would ever say such a thing? To be sure, Correa was illegally elected from money from a terror group plus a known enemy of freedom, Hugo Chavez. Rafael Correa took their illegal monies with no hesitation and that makes him a criminal.
 
Chavez not only gives money to subsidize the failed criminal state called Cuba but also has formally enjoined the very very evil nation called Iran as well as terrorists called the FARC, among others. Chavez subsidizes Rafael Correa's narcostate previously called Ecuador and will soon see this formally cemented under the new Chavez-Correa constitution for communists, also called lawless Bolivarians. Like Rafael Correa, Hugo Chavez is a state sponsor of terror. Taking their money is a very very bad thing. Remaining in their formal marriage because the money is good is an even worse idea. Enshrining now by "law" are the protection rackets they seek and do sell. We agree: staying in these marriages of convenient money is a shameful practice because it reveals that the moral person/ the soul has been sold out...for money or the practice of extortion or both.
 
The  5-28-08 WALL STREET JOURNAL ponders whether Iran is a nation state or a revolution and notes, "A nation-state wants concrete things such as demarcated borders, markets, access to natural resources, security, influence, and, of course, stability – all things that could be negotiated with other nation-states. A revolution, on the other hand, doesn't want anything in particular because it wants everything."  We say that Iran, like Venezuela and Ecuador is both and as such is a team up based on dishonesty, greed and manipulations: this is an unholy marriage of convenience and because their foundation/their bedrock is dishonesty and manipulative living, this dishonest marriage- that wants to control and manipulate everything-  must end in divorce. Stop rewarding the dishonest and the manipulative. Place Chavez and Correa in Uribe's Rehab Centers for FARC lovers and liars. Or get a divorce from these dishonest adolescents who do nothing but lie a lot, manipulate and generate unstable conditions for personal power and more and more manipulations. Stop feeling sorry when the whine and cry and stop being afraid of the over blown selfish teen agers on a power binge when they yell and scream and threaten to get angry: stop co enabling this string of looser behaviors and insist that one and all grow up and be real partners for progress instead of dishonest lumps living off of someone else's money while playing extortion games.
 
This very same more/unethical and selfish outlook that enables and encourages others to live off of other people's money, until it feels quite normal when it is not...and creates a whole society of manipulators and humans seeking ways to prey/live off new victims, is grossly revealed in the current oil and mining confiscation crimes underway by Correa... taking company's hard work and stealing it. Rafael Correa today insists that any mining or oil company doing business with the government of Ecuador must first swear to break the U.S. Bi Lateral Investment  Treaty which guarantees speedy arbitration through World Bank [ or UN] arbitral courts, locally called CIADI courts for disputes. Or if a company is so deranged and cravenly willing to settle any legal dispute inside Ecuador before Correa's stacked and packed kangaroo courts which will never rule fairly...then that is their choice. But Correa wants the BIT with the USA neutered/ripped up: he has no use for law and order and only wants business people to play by his pre-fixed racket rules, also called extortion. Indeed, there is no need for the entire legal community in Ecuador for there is no constitution, no law and order and only the abandonment of legal ethics in surrender to Correa's extortion plans which has replaced justice in Ecuador. There is no law and anyone who hires an Ecuadorean attorney is playing a game of Russian Roulette with no rules and only dishonesty for an end result.
 
To date, no mining company that is legal is willing to face share holder law suits for irresponsible contract performance, also called paying Correa for extortion, inside Ecuador. Only illegal entities play with Correa's Ecuador today while the "diplomats" want to pretend that this unlawful dictatorship can be salvaged and saved by US AID and the U.S. Department of State, we do not know how long it will take before the U.S. government itself faces a lawsuit from US investors for its velvet hand in preparing fraudulent tales that Ecuador is a legitimate place to invest when Ecuador has no interest in legitimate businesses and demands that only businesses willing to submit to their tender, communist cartel courts will be allowed. This breaks not only Ecuador's Charter with the UN but also the OAS and numerous treaties with the EU and the USA. Rafael Correa demands that all contracts must sign a dirty deal MOU with his offices to swear to never uphold the BIT nor look to any real justice at all. This is the height of hypocrisy. Ministro Chiriboga should resign in embarrassment and turn states' evidence....but he will not for he is a patsy for Correa's cartel.
 
Meanwhile, Ecuador suffers inflation today which should be less than 5% because it is a dollarized nation is in fact well above 10% even as food supplies dwindle and all commodities are scarcer. The government of Ecuador not only has created this problem but its kangaroo Central Bank is currently manipulating all state records and lying about the sheer bankruptcy of the government which is already morally bankrupt, but you knew this when the Minister of Foreign Affairs was a porn star, currently providing her skills at the United Nations. Ecuador's Correa has plunged the state in to a service contract with sovereign/formal state ally Hugo Chavez's Venezuela to deliver food items at an inflated price while not only Ecuadorean farmers but local shoppers suffer from the government's black market price fixing rackets, also called food cartels. Adding inflation from sheer mismanagement of all state funds by crude government design, we also note that Ecuadoreans are doing what they do best: crying for more money from US AID, the IDB and World Bank while Correa and Chavez run the economy to ground. This is costing Ecuadoreans a lot of money not only at the table but squanders their whole future, which Ecuadoreans pray will be repaired and taken care of by some mythical Nanny State spending someone else's money like some credit card. Ecuadoreans, who essentially have no jobs any more and no future because they chose to be uneducated, unprepared and lazy, today have only the chance to run up more debt like a bad credit card. This is called Family Values. We call this irresponsible and dishonest. It is also time for all banks and all Ecuadorean accounts to be under a full forensic audit. Meanwhile, Correa is blaming everyone he can for his own failure to grow up and be an adult: it is all their fault. Not one to rest on his theatrical performances screeching and wailing, Correa has hired a lot of horrible people to lie a lot and cover up for Correa's dictatorial state theft.
 
It is time to take the family car keys away from this teen aged Correa on a drunken power binge. But Ecuadoreans think that no one should say a word about this megalomaniac and master manipulator. Maybe they will grow up too one day and realize that the very thing they revere: living off someone else's money and manipulating all facts about their lazy, useless life is now very expensive and no one likes them because they are lazy and dishonest. Maybe. Correa's popularity is plunging and still not much more than 40% trust him. Trust Correa? Not as far as you can throw him. Trust Correa for what? Send us your list of How You Trust Correa to Deliver Good Government for Ecuador. We will look forward to your explanation as to why you stay committed to this alliance that is very expensive with no benefits and no honesty.
 
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis