Unlike the dialogue by the Social Security Fund - mired in sterile discussions of form - that of the Bicentennial Pact presents concrete and timely proposals. They are ambitious goals for a government that is distinguished by its ineffectiveness, lack of transparency, and an unacceptable ineptitude in the high command, not counting the enormous number of civil servants hired to fulfill clientelist commitments, functional ignorant who receive salary just for sitting in an office without work (and sometimes not even that). Thus, for example, citizens demand in the Pact greater efficiency in matters of citizen security. Delinquency and the high crime rate expose the lack of a serious and planned policy in this matter. The proposals show how expensive it is to maintain the security forces versus their poor and questionable results. And that is a fact, not a perception. Citizens also complain about the usual vices: opacity and lack of ethics and accountability in public management, for which they suggest drawing up a national plan for public ethics training and transparency, as well as creating a general law on public administration. If only some of these aspirations materialize, it will have been a good idea to have convened the Pact. as well as creating a general law of public administration.  LA PRENSA, Nov. 14.