it is so
Somehow they can't understand that altho' platano was a half a peso each during the last gov't and is now 7 pesos each they believe what 'Hippo" has told them- 'the dollar has gone up' even tho' we tell them it hasn't really (ours had but the US$ hadn't) -it's because the peso has GONE DOWN!
Ask why a platano that is grown locally would cost more because the "dollar has gone up"!!
I find this is so, also, but I also find it is a definite minority now....most middle and lower middle class people realize what has happened to them but, there is a hard-core of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) followers who forgive everything that their 'leaders' do and they could set fire to the entire country and that would still be fine with them....I think what's wrong with them is that they eat too many plantains....EL PLATANO EMBRUTECE (plantains make people dumber) and the PRD's followers probably have a higher than average diet of this...??
I feel as you do....I earn US$ here and I have kept up and some things are less expensive but, I want Hipo out because my country, after getting on the right path in 1996 and making a generational leap, has gone back at least 10 years in the last 4 with this ding-dong in charge and that's bad for everybody....like someone said previously here, to support a bad government is not only irresponsible but inmoral.
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