Be happy every day…

I have read a very interesting article by Carlos Alberto Montaner in the daily newspaper. It refers to what is meant by good governance globalized. Montaner cited ten measures that must play a modern government to make progress and let its people to live in freedom and development.

The ten points Montaner point as those that identify a developed country are:

- Avoid hand over to the state bureaucracy the control of the economy. They are clumsy.

- The currency must be strong to allow savings. This basically requires good management of public finances.

- English is the language of globalization and the computer is the most commonly used vehicle. Encouraging these two things is the duty of local authority.

- All things that benefit the transfer of technology and knowledge are positive, which are damaging them are negative.

- The operation of state and private companies should be transparent and should be accessible to the audits.

- Among the worst enemies of prosperity is the discretion of public officials that allow them to reward friends and punish enemies.

- The main function of the state is not charity but exercise to purposely create conditions in which people can currently make progress on their own.

- Inviting foreign capital and leave the economic nationalism.

- Promoting investment in human capital abroad.

If we can celebrate or criticize each government decision considering their guidance by this ten precepts, I think that each country could be more serious.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
- Stephen King

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.
- Woody Allen

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
- Evan Esar

Well, I do not how many people like April Fool Day jokes, but sometimes there are surprising and can astonish some people. This is my case with two blogs: John Chow and Democracy Centre

The first refers to a new launch: official Coca branded with John Chow. It could be believable, but in fact when you know that AFD is coming, you are prevent to take it seriously.

However, my problem is with the second one: The post reveals, with many details, the upcoming plans of Halliburton to take over a great part of Bolivian country. It describes what they plan to do, and what is coming to happen with some symbols like the flag and the Magnificas. (Uah uah, take a look…)

It is false, but can be true. I suspect that people in Democracy Centre know very well the Bolivian country political situation, and this joke is not really a joke. It can be true, and this is the tragedy behind the joke.

I think that this people have to take into account the realities when making a false new, because reality could be worst than the worst of the nightmares.