tiphareth: Venezuela, a Failing State

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Venezuela, a Failing State
Хорошее про Венесуэлу
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/14/venezuela-a-failing-state

Одна из забавных вещей, которые случились из-за Венесуэлы -
сильное (кое-где практически до нуля) падение популярности
любой антиамериканской (и любой условно левой) партии по всей
Латинской Америке. То есть Венесуэла это Зимбабве, то, к чему рано или
поздно скатится сраная рашка, но пока не скатилась. Общество,
где не функционирует вообще ничего, кроме лозунгов и гебистов.
Сейчас, положим, основная оппозиция Мадуро - такие же социалисты,
просто из-за инерции политического мышления, но лет через
5 за слова про социализм в Венесуэле начнут бить в
морду сразу. В Бразилии уже бьют, то есть текущий президент
следует тезису "все, кто против Америки, говно по типу
Мадуро, пусть лезут под шконку". Не без оснований тащемта:
бывшая бразильская правящая партия (PT) сразу после выборов
Мадуро признала его и послала делегатов на инуагурацию;
и лишилась еще процентов 10 своей популярности. В Латине
сейчас вытирать ноги о Мадуро есть необходимое условие
политического выживания, это такой типа лидер антипопулярности.
Собственно, если б не Венесуэла, PT правила бы благополучно еще
и еще, Венесуэла был главный аргумент против
леваков-антиамериканцев.

Привет

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gudrun_fioshev
2019-01-26 01:09 (ссылка)

Социализм может существовать как приложение к промышленному капитализму. Там да - имеет смысл давать хорошее образование бесплатно, потому что легче найти толкового работника задешево. Обеспечить какие то минимальные стандартные блага чтобы конкурировать на рынке при высоком курсе валюты.
Потом, в общем и целом, социализм требует от общества антисоциальности, когда всех все устраивает что не задевает их собственные интересы лично. А в Венесуэле все наоборот - там что то типа диктатуры под вывеской социализма. В Латинской Америке социализм более менее похожий на таковой - католический,типа как в Чили. Но там много об этом и не говорят.

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	sasha_a 2019-01-26 03:10 (ссылка)
	хз, особого социализма в Бразилии не заметил; в Европе его точно больше и мб даже в штатах больше (Ответить) (Уровень выше) (Ветвь дискуссии)

tiphareth
2019-01-26 03:21 (ссылка)

бесплатное в. о.
бесплатная медицина
bolsa familia
суммарно, пожалуй, больше, чем во многих странах Европы

в Штатах медицинская страховка $500/месяц
в. о. $40000/год
на велфер тратят меньше денег, чем на
полицейских, занятых слежкой за его получателями

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/sd-me-aclu-lawsuit-20180627-story.html

San Diego County again sued over policy of searching homes of CalWorks applicants

Since the 1990s, San Diego County has reserved the right to search the homes of people who apply for public benefits, with sworn peace officers turning up where applicants live to make sure they are not out to cheat taxpayers.

The fraud-prevention policy, called Project 100% or P100 for short, allows investigators to search through the bedrooms, closets and dressers of families that apply for public-assistance programs like CalWorks.

The county Board of Supervisors has insisted for years that the effort protects taxpayers by making sure benefits are not awarded to people who are not eligible to receive them.

But a team of lawyers is not convinced.

Attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Fish & Richardson law firm this week sued San Diego County over Project 100%, asking a judge to stop the searches and declare the practice illegal and a waste of government resources.

“No other county in California operates a program similar to P100,” the complaint states. “Instead, other counties investigate claims of fraud based on individualized suspicion of applicant fraud rather than conducting indiscriminate home inspections of all applicants.”

CalWorks is the state name for the federal program known as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Also known as welfare, CalWorks provides temporary cash assistance, job-hunting and health insurance to eligible families with children.

County officials declined to respond directly to the lawsuit. But a spokeswoman said the Project 100% home searches can reduce fraud and also help applicants collect other benefits beyond CalWorks.

“The investigators are aware of a variety of other resources that the applicant may not know about, both in terms of government-assistance programs and nonprofit resources,” Alex Bell said in an email, “and they often try to help connect the applicant to other qualifying programs which will help lift them out of the cycle of poverty.”

According to the lawsuit, the county began requiring the inspections in 1999 for all new applications. The policy too often causes needy applicants to miss work or neglect family duties to accommodate a home visit that does not always keep to schedule, the complaint says.

“Because applicants typically are not notified when the investigation will occur, they must often remain effectively confined to their homes awaiting an unannounced and unscheduled visit,” the suit asserts.

Under Project 100%, CalWorks applications are not approved before a home inspection is conducted. If no one is home when an investigator shows up, he or she leaves a business card, the lawsuit states, but because no appointments are scheduled, applications are often closed because an inspection is not completed.

There is no preset budget for Project 100%, Bell said, but the county Health and Human Services Agency reimbursed the Bureau of Public Assistance Investigations just over $3.4 million for time spent between July 2016 and March 2018. The bureau is part of the county Department of Child Support Services.

According to county data, CalWorks fraud investigators routinely find evidence to deny services to applicants. In 2,734 investigations closed between January and March, they reduced, denied or discontinued $148,084 in benefits for 325 people, almost 12 percent of cases.

In the year ended June 30, 2017, the fraud-prevention program took action in 503 of 8,287 cases, a rate 6.1 percent. The county reported a “cost avoidance” worth $305,009,

At least one independent study found that Project 100% was not saving money.

“In February 2014, (the county) verified that P100 fraud-detection statistics have been historically inflated,” researcher Hilda Chan reported in an April 2014 study for the Open Society Foundations. “Reports have overestimated the frequency of fraud found and the amount of cost avoided.”

ACLU staff attorney Jonathan Markovitz said the county practice violates state rules against denying public benefits to anyone on the basis of race, gender, age or other factors.

“Programs that are state-funded may not discriminate,” he said in a telephone interview. “The two protected categories we are focusing on are race and gender. The CalWorks applicant pool is disproportionately composed of women and people of color.”

The ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties previously sued the San Diego County over Project 100% in 2000, but a federal judge ruled that the practice was constitutional.

In 2006, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ruling in a 2-1 decision that relied on a 1971 U.S. Supreme Court case that said home visits to verify eligibility for benefits were not searches because they were not conducted as part of a criminal investigation.

The county previously included food-stamp applicants in the Project 100% searches but discontinued that practice more than a decade ago, after The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that the region had the lowest enrollment rate in the nation.

Markovitz said the new lawsuit was deliberately filed in Superior Court, which is responsible for enforcing state laws prohibiting discrimination against protected classes of people.

A hearing on the injunction request has yet to be scheduled.

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sasha_a
2019-01-26 04:02 (ссылка)

в Штатах медицинская страховка $500/месяц
В Бразилии, для человека моего возраста еще больше, а качество все-таки ниже.
Бесплатная медицина очень и очень базисная (precária), причем до недавнего времени можно было наблюдать в UNICAMP очереди из людей с весьма серьезными травмами. (Сейчас чуточку получше.)

Безумно высокий подоходный налог практически не возвращяется в виде социальных благ, кроме упомянутой bolsa família. Не считал, но думаю, она не составляет заметную часть налога.

Да, здесь можно жить под мостом, и религиозно-ориентированная филантропия (que não tem nada ver com socialismo) обеспечит какой-то едой. Неужели в Европе хуже?

Теперь буду читать чего Вы тут нарисовали...

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(Анонимно)
2019-01-27 22:07 (ссылка)

>> на велфер тратят меньше денег, чем на полицейских, занятых слежкой за его получателями Ты брехливый шизофреник. Ты цитируешь высер левой прессы, которой в принципе верить нельзя, но даже этот высер не содержит подобных утверждений. Таким образом, я тебя поймал на вранье. Врать нехорошо, Вербицкий. Ни стыда у тебя ни совести.

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tiphareth
2019-01-26 03:28 (ссылка)

https://aflcio.org/2014/5/9/9-terrifying-stories-injustice-matt-taibbis-new-book-divide

2. Jerome: Jerome was living with his child's mother and
her sister. The sister called the authorities on Jerome in
an effort to get him kicked out of the house. The mother,
who did not register Jerome as a resident in the house,
was charged with welfare fraud and did a year in jail.

4. Andrew Brown: While Brown had previously had troubles
with drugs and the law, he was trying to straighten his
life out. One night, on his way home from work, he was
dressed in work clothes and wearing a name badge and was
talking to a neighbor in front of his own apartment
building at about 1 a.m. Police told him he was blocking
pedestrian traffic, and when he tried to explain that he
was coming home from work, he was arrested, handcuffed,
put in a van, taken to the precinct, strip searched and
charged. After numerous run-ins with law enforcement in
the past, he decided to fight back against the ticket,
since he had only been standing in front of his own
building and since it was 1 a.m., there was no pedestrian
traffic for him to block. Multiple lawyers who were
assigned to him advised him to plead guilty and take a
fine, which would add a misdemeanor to his record, even
after he told them he wanted to fight it. Eventually a
judge dismissed the case, but only after also advising
Brown to take the charge and pay the fine.

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