Comments on Pensieve: Riots in Tegucigalpa

I agree that education is the only way out of pove...

2008-08-09T20:41:01.688-06:00

I agree that education is the only way out of poverty.

But the government needs people to go to work, otherwise, it can't tax them! They'd be unable to steal the bus fare money, the system operates on a net loss already. If someone stole that money, the economy would collapse because workers couldn't get to their jobs.

That's why I think it makes more sense for the city (not nation) to own mass transport. They have a vested interest in it.

I disagree. The average pay in Honduras is about 2...

2008-08-09T11:37:45.891-06:00

I disagree. The average pay in Honduras is about 2000-3000 Lempiras per month(about $100-160). How much would you pay the bus drivers? If it is the same as the average wage how much tax would be imposed on them? Most people do pay any taxes there and the little that the city does receive is pocketed by the government officials. How would this benefit honduras? First the entire system must change to effect any change.Second with change the massives would be able to support themselves without US or Chavez's help,,but that's asking for a lot of change. Third get the literacy rate up to help educate the people to begin to pull them out of their cycle of their helpless impovershment.

Mexico is, unfortunately just as corrupt, and mayb...

2008-06-05T08:06:04.635-06:00

Mexico is, unfortunately just as corrupt, and maybe more corrupt than Honduras. That makes it more amazing to me to see a city of 5 million running smoothly, even though there are many poor.

Crime is mostly under control, except the narcos of course.

Your idea makes so much more sense than the gas su...

2008-06-04T19:29:59.476-06:00

Your idea makes so much more sense than the gas subsidy that the government currently provides. Who benefits from that? Certainly not the poor who can not afford cars. Even though I benefit, I think think it is ridiculous.

monterrey and tegucigalpa cannot be compared. how ...

2008-06-03T07:06:26.040-06:00

monterrey and tegucigalpa cannot be compared. how could we even consider giving more to a government fraught with corruption and inefficiency? perhaps someday in the future when the country grows out of the mindset that keeps it in misery but then again perhaps not because the honduras of my memories may never come back and turn into yet another haiti or philippines where two societies live in separate worlds.