{"id":4054,"date":"2008-12-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-03-18T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T16:27:08","slug":"le-deseamos-una-plastica-navidad","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/amchamchile.cl\/en\/noticia\/le-deseamos-una-plastica-navidad\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:es-->\u201cLe Deseamos una Pl\u00e1stica Navidad\u201d<!--:--><!--:en-->\u201cAnd We Wish You a Plastic Christmas\u201d<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:es--><!--break--> Todos sabemos que las campa\u00f1as presidenciales se ganan con promesas y Barack Obama hizo muchas grandes promesas. Obama ser\u00e1 investido Presidente el martes 20 de enero del 2009, convirti\u00e9ndose as\u00ed no s\u00f3lo el 44o presidente de Estados Unidos, sino en el primer afroamericano en llegar a gobernar el pa\u00eds.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Muchos lo han comparado con John F. Kennedy, quien lleg\u00f3 a la presidencia gracias a una ola de esperanza en momentos en que Estados Unidos estaba en guerra en Vietnam. Obama llega a la Presidencia con un mensaje de \u201cnueva esperanza\u201d en medio de la mayor recesi\u00f3n econ\u00f3mica desde la d\u00e9cada de los 30 (la que a\u00fan tiene que tocar fondo\u2026) y con Estados Unidos en guerra tanto en Irak como en Afganist\u00e1n.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Kennedy se convirti\u00f3 en presidente en 1961 cuando estaba a punto de cumplir 47 a\u00f1os. Obama naci\u00f3 en agosto de 1961, a menos de siete meses de que se iniciara la administraci\u00f3n de Kennedy, y tendr\u00e1 47 a\u00f1os y cinco meses cuando sea investido presidente. Ambos estudiaron en Harvard.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Pero las comparaciones probablemente debieran detenerse aqu\u00ed. Kennedy naci\u00f3 blanco y privilegiado, parte de una muy prominente dinast\u00eda de Boston, Massachusetts. Obama naci\u00f3 en Honolulu de madre blanca y padre keniano; su elecci\u00f3n fue celebrada ampliamente en Kenia. Sus or\u00edgenes no podr\u00edan ser m\u00e1s distintos, pero su mensaje de esperanza parece similar.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Entonces, \u00bfd\u00f3nde nos deja todo esto a nosotros en Chile? Bueno, s\u00ed nos importan las promesas de Obama. Si Estados Unidos y la Uni\u00f3n Europea est\u00e1n en recesi\u00f3n, entonces es s\u00f3lo cuesti\u00f3n de tiempo antes de que las presiones se sientan aqu\u00ed en Chile. Lo malo de un mercado global es que no podemos decidir salirnos cuando las cosas se ponen dif\u00edciles. Exportamos bienes b\u00e1sicos adem\u00e1s de algunos servicios y productos de \u201cvalor agregado\u201d y cuando los pa\u00edses que son nuestros clientes comiencen a dejar de comprar, la econom\u00eda se contraer\u00e1 y r\u00e1pidamente. Exportamos turismo, pero en un mundo en que la gente est\u00e1 siendo despedida por miles, el buen jerarca pospondr\u00e1 sus planificadas vacaciones familiares en la Patagonia en pos de una semana en la cordillera de Adirondacks.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Chile no se dar\u00e1 cuenta totalmente de la escala de esta crisis hasta marzo del 2009, lo que significa al menos que \u00a1podemos disfrutar la Navidad y las vacaciones de verano! \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 marzo? Bueno, algo que he aprendido en mis a\u00f1os en Chile es que la vida ac\u00e1 es un ciclo al interior de otro ciclo. Mientras en Estados Unidos tenemos el D\u00eda de Acci\u00f3n de Gracias a fines del oto\u00f1o, una invernal Navidad y las vacaciones de verano en julio o agosto, en Chile amontonamos todo esto en un compacto lapso de dos meses. Entre el 20 de diciembre y el 1 de marzo, lo tenemos todo: una org\u00eda de compras, fiestas de empresas, Navidad y un tiempo para descansar del trabajo.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">En Chile, febrero es el mes para el olvido. Mientras el industrializado hemisferio norte atrapado en una recesi\u00f3n est\u00e9 sobreviviendo al invierno quemando muebles para mantenerse calientes y comiendo raciones militares, nosotros estaremos disfrutando del sol en algunas de las playas m\u00e1s lindas del mundo (est\u00e1 bien\u2026el agua es fr\u00eda), saboreando buenos vinos chilenos e ignorando los apuros del mundo\u2026 hasta marzo. Y bueno, para eso es que existen las tarjetas de cr\u00e9dito: para protegernos de las realidades de la vida.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">As\u00ed que mientras nos acercamos a la \u00e9poca de festividades, por favor aseg\u00farese de que sus distintas tarjetas de cr\u00e9dito est\u00e9n con su cr\u00e9dito totalmente disponible, permiti\u00e9ndole navegar calmadamente a trav\u00e9s de las aguas turbulentas con m\u00e1ximo fondo, disfrutar de la emoci\u00f3n de la Navidad y el verano al m\u00e1ximo, sin importar los costos que implique. Despu\u00e9s de todo, \u00a1s\u00f3lo es dinero pl\u00e1stico! Adem\u00e1s, la probabilidad de que su banco \u201cestire la pata\u201d es de hecho muy alta lo que significa que posiblemente \u00a1\u00a1no tendr\u00e1 que pagar ninguna de las deudas acumuladas que venzan en marzo!!<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Viva, ame y gaste a cr\u00e9dito, ma\u00f1ana empezaremos de nuevo. Obama lleg\u00f3 para resolver todos nuestros problemas. Le deseamos una Pl\u00e1stica Navidad, <STRONG>&nbsp;<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><STRONG>Santiago Eneldo<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><STRONG><EM>(Nacido para vivir alocadamente y con altos ratings crediticios en todas sus tarjetas de cr\u00e9dito, bueno hasta el 31 de marzo del 2009\u2026 santiagoeneldo@yahoo.com)<\/EM><\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P><EM><\/EM><\/P><!--:--><!--:en--><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\nWe all know that presidential campaigns are won on promises and Barack Obama has made a great many promises. He will be sworn into office on Tuesday 20 January, 2009, thus becoming not just the 44th President of the United States but the first African American to hold this office.<\/p>\n<p>Many have compared him to John F. Kennedy, who came to the Presidency on a wave of hope and at a time when the United States was at war in Vietnam. Obama comes to the Presidency with a message of \u201cnew hope\u201d in the midst of the biggest economic recession since the 1930s (which has yet to bottom out\u2026) and with the United States at war in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy became president in 1961 when he was just four months shy of his 47th birthday. Obama was born in August 1961, less than seven months into the Kennedy administration, and he will be 47 years and five months old when he is sworn into office. Both studied at Harvard.  <\/p>\n<p>But here the comparisons should probably stop. Kennedy was born white and privileged, a member of a very prominent Boston, Massachusetts dynasty.  Obama was born in Honolulu to a white mother and Kenyan father; his election was celebrated widely in Kenya. Their origins could not be more different but their message of hope sounds similar.<\/p>\n<p>So where does all this leave us here in Chile? Well, we do care about Obama\u2019s promises. If the United States and the European Union are in recession, then it is only a matter of time before the pressures are felt here in Chile. The downside of a global market is that we cannot opt out when the going gets tough. We export commodities as well as a few services and \u201cvalue added\u201d products and when our client nations start to back off buying, the economy will be headed south &#8211; and fast. We export tourism but in a world where people are being laid off by the thousands, the good leader will postpone his planned family holiday in Patagonia in favor of a week in the Adirondacks.<\/p>\n<p>Chile will not fully realize the scale of this crisis until March 2009, which at least means we can enjoy Christmas and the summer holidays! Why March? Well, one thing I have learned from my years in Chile is that life here is a cycle within a cycle. Where the U.S. has Thanksgiving in late autumn, a wintry Christmas and a summer vacation in July or August, in Chile we bundle all this into a compact two-month period. Between December 20 and March 1, we have it all: an orgy of shopping, company parties, Christmas and time away from work. <\/p>\n<p>In Chile, February is the forgotten month. While the industrialized and recession-trapped northern hemisphere is surviving winter by burning the furniture to keep warm and eating military rations, we will be basking on some of the world\u2019s most beautiful beaches (alright the water is cold&#8230;), sipping good Chilean wines and ignoring the plight of the world\u2026until March. And that is what credit cards are for &#8211; to shield us from the realities of life.  <\/p>\n<p>So, as we approach the festive season, please make sure your various credit cards are fully unloaded, allowing you to sail calmly through troubled waters with maximum canvas, enjoying the thrills of Christmas and summer to the full, regardless of the costs involved. After all, it is only plastic money! Added to this, the probability of your bank going belly up is very high indeed which means you will probably not have to pay off any of your accumulated debt come March!!<\/p>\n<p>Live, love and spend on credit, for tomorrow we will start again. Obama has arrived to solve all our problems.<\/p>\n<p>We wish you a Plastic Christmas,<\/p>\n<p><b>Santiago Eneldo<\/b><br \/>\n<b><i>(Born to live wild and with high credit rating on all credit cards &#8211; well, until March 31, 2009\u2026 santiagoeneldo@yahoo.com)<\/b><\/I><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!--:es--><P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Todos sabemos que las campa\u00f1as presidenciales se ganan con promesas y Barack Obama hizo muchas grandes promesas. Obama ser\u00e1 investido Presidente el martes 20 de enero del 2009, convirti\u00e9ndose as\u00ed no s\u00f3lo el 44o presidente de Estados Unidos, sino en el primer afroamericano en llegar a gobernar el pa\u00eds. <!--:--><!--:en-->We all know that presidential campaigns are won on promises and Barack Obama has made a great many promises. 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