UPDATE: Argentinian Farmer Strikes

The farmers who have been on strike in Argentina for the past 16 days have suspended the strike. The Argentinian government has agreed to negotiate with the farmers.


Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C8BAE9B4-1187-4C92-BF64-0989FA177650.htm


Your thoughts?

The farmer's communities wouldn't be effected to the extent that the farmers claimed and they deliberately caused a food shortage to force the government to negotiate. Sounds like extortion to me.

oligarch wrote:

The farmer's communities wouldn't be effected to the extent that the farmers claimed and they deliberately caused a food shortage to force the government to negotiate. Sounds like extortion to me.

Really?

Renegade_Kautsky wrote:

oligarch wrote:

The farmer's communities wouldn't be effected to the extent that the farmers claimed and they deliberately caused a food shortage to force the government to negotiate. Sounds like extortion to me.

Really?

The taxes mostly hurt rural land owners who are quite wealthy and the new funds the state would receive would benefit the country. The farmers created a food shortage to get the money they wanted, that is extortion.

oligarch wrote:

Renegade_Kautsky wrote:

oligarch wrote:

The farmer's communities wouldn't be effected to the extent that the farmers claimed and they deliberately caused a food shortage to force the government to negotiate. Sounds like extortion to me.

Really?

The taxes mostly hurt rural land owners who are quite wealthy and the new funds the state would receive would benefit the country. The farmers created a food shortage to get the money they wanted, that is extortion.

I don't think so. By that logic aren't all strikers "extortionists"?

Renegade_Kautsky wrote:

oligarch wrote:

Renegade_Kautsky wrote:

oligarch wrote:

The farmer's communities wouldn't be effected to the extent that the farmers claimed and they deliberately caused a food shortage to force the government to negotiate. Sounds like extortion to me.

Really?

The taxes mostly hurt rural land owners who are quite wealthy and the new funds the state would receive would benefit the country. The farmers created a food shortage to get the money they wanted, that is extortion.

I don't think so. By that logic aren't all strikers "extortionists"?

No, because they're harming the urban underclasses by cutting off the food supply.

what happend to all the other posts in this thread?

Liche wrote:

what happend to all the other posts in this thread?

I think you're thinking of a different thread with the same subject.

oligarch wrote:

Liche wrote:

what happend to all the other posts in this thread?

I think you're thinking of a different thread with the same subject.

Yea, I just realised that lol.

oligarch wrote:

The farmer's communities wouldn't be effected to the extent that the farmers claimed and they deliberately caused a food shortage to force the government to negotiate. Sounds like extortion to me.

well that is strikings point so......

Extortion will always happen if it is profitable to do so. So to get rid of extortion must mean getting rid of capitalism also.

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The taxes mostly hurt rural land owners who are quite wealthy and the new funds the state would receive would benefit the country. The farmers created a food shortage to get the money they wanted, that is extortion.

And what, exactly, would you have them do? Nothing? All workers' strikes are going to hurt someone. If you don't have the stomach for it, i don't think revolution is for you. And if the government really cared, they would've settled already.

Article wrote:

"The government's doors are open but please, lift this strike for the sake of the people," she said.

Ha! what a crock of shit. If she really cared about the people, she wouldn't be taxing them out the ass.