Sunday, June 04, 2006
Going Left
*The worlds third richest man, Carlos Slim Helu from Mexico, is taking an interest in leftist politics here. It is less than a month to the elections and his influence plays a large part.
His idea, Slim said in a March interview with Reuters, is to push "the development of Latin America through the development of human capital and structural investment."
He said: "What we need is investment, education, growth and jobs. What makes opportunities more equal in the world of today, more than anything else are good nutrition, health and education."
"Wealth is like an orchard," Slim said in the Reuters interview. "You have to share the fruit, not the orchard. With the orchard, what you have to do is make it grow, reinvest it to make it bigger, or diversify into other areas."
He said: "What we need is investment, education, growth and jobs. What makes opportunities more equal in the world of today, more than anything else are good nutrition, health and education." I just had to add it nice to see someone of heart and wise money maters speak up i just hope it means less cymicals and more fruite have to feed the trees and care for the roots.
I have an idea there may be some reading due between Slim's lines. Given his backgrounds and involvements detailed at Wikipedia, he may be looking with concern at current political developments in fear being being touched. Base motivation for his speaking forth may just be the recent advent of the rise of Chavez of Venezuela and Morales of Bolivia as they move closer to Cuba's Castro, show trend to socialist directions, and initiate process of appropriating private holdings for distribution to and benefit of the poor whose labors pay for Slim's exhaulted ranking among the rich. Slim's Mexico itself seems to be looking south with Andrés López talking populism in his run for the presidency and in a tight race with Felipe Calderón who appears to favor continuing to gather crumbs pushed from tables of United States oligarchs and corporations. It may be that Slim is engaging in a bit of preventative inoculation against what he percieves as a disease going around. "You have to share the fruit, not the orchard....". I read that to say "Oh my god Felipe, save me (and mine) from the likes of that crazy López and his misquided poor!". He may get his wish this time around, but sorry Slim, the times they are a changin', and you, we, and Mexico may yet live to see the pancake flipped.
I would rant on but have to go pay the phone bill to Carlos Slim's national monopoly telephone company through which passes this intenet connection. Blame Slim if you hear from me no more.
