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RE: Ulog #082 | Market Friday in Cumaná
Raw sewerage running down the streets has started to happen over here more often of late, it is so sad to think back when this seldom occurred now people appear to accept it, or is it accepting the hand that has been dealt out?
Filth and squalor a clear indicator of a lost pride by people in an area. A stark reminder of how fast our country has gone downhill, state capture has been devastating to the vast majority.
Showing this to the world is a good reminder to those who have and those who simply don't have anything, life is rough for many, downright tough for most living below the breadline. Added into the equation alcohol abuse, drugs, rape, murder all negative impacts in regions like this.
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You are so right, @joanstewart.
Unions here have organized rallies about tons of things, most of which are related to salary complaints. But, what would be the point of having a good salary if you can't even get healthy food or clean water; if you can't walk the streets of your town because they are too filthy or unsafe? What would be the point of having money if money becomes worthless, if you do not even have a country where to spend it?
It's beyond me. One of the reasons I quit my teaching job was my frustration at getting my colleagues to agree on commonsensical issues.
It was a devastating realization for me that if the so-called "most brilliant minds" in the country could not see the source of the problem one could not expect much else from the average folk. And I do not mean to disrespect "the average folk" because I come from a family of average folks. My mother and father, without much schooling, saw the problem and never fell for any politician with a populist agenda. They had worked very hard their whole lives. They felt they had the moral leverage to make demands.
But there seems to come a time in the life of peoples where all reason is cancelled out, all consciousness, all self-reliance, and then we have spectacles like this and so many others around the world.
Unions, middle management, politicians are all lining their pockets while prices soar, the poor become poorer, worse still is lack of cleanliness!
Rivers, streets are all polluted something we never grew up with, large corporations get fines they can afford, so continue dumping toxic trash wherever they feel fit.
World is in a cycle of cheap junk manufactured to throw away, not to last as it did in bygone years, we are chasing our own tails, soon we will bite it off. No matter how rich or poor one is, with no food or clean water we are doomed.