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Originally Posted by Don Juan
And whose fault is it that things are overtly expensive? The gov? The agricultural growers? Or the enterprising distributing bandits that steal big time from the poor by hiking up prices with impunity?
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Well, the government is certainly squeezing the businesses tax wise. It appears 3386 businesses closed last year; those were the ones with telephones so probably others closed which didn't have a phone..........
http://www.elcaribecdn.com/articulo_...697&Seccion=69
And now there are rumours that E. Leon Jimenez group might be thinking of moving to Costa Rica with loss of another 3000 jobs..........
Desde Dominicana
Then there's the World Economic Forum putting DR in last place among Latin American countries for attractiveness in private investing in infrastucture:
World Economic Forum - Latest Press Releases
Then there are the prison figures: of a prison population of 14,434 some 10,500 are on remand (i.e. not sentenced)
Then there's the Banco Central debt as more and more certificados are emitted. And I haven't even got to crime and drugs yet.
So in answer to are things better................. maybe for the super rich, I wouldn't know. Certainly not for the average Josefina. And worryingly, very worryingly, the gap between the haves and have nots appears to be widening. On the one hand massive glitterati type investments by Trump & Co, the Hazourys and others. And on the other, for the average citizen no apparent right even to the crumbs from the top table. Coupled with no Government net to fish up the indigent and the recently unemployed.