[Hillbilly]

Yesterday, ol' Leonel inaugurated his Metro. He allowed the press to print the fact that the "estimated cost" was for US$700 million.

Well, when you look at it like that, $700 million it does not look like much when Obama & Co are talking near the trillion mark.

But look at it like this: $700,000,000. D@mn! that is a chunk of change!!

Then you look at it like this (+/-) RD$243,000,000,000 and you say Holy shyte!!!

Especially when you realize that the budget for the whole freakin' years is RD$330,000,000,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And the next story on the page is about how the hospital at Los Mina that has watched its annex stalled for 13 years while it is overflowing with patients.

This is a project that was so loudly criticized when it was announced that the Metro would cost RD$700-800 million PESOS!! just a few years ago. Every single step of the way was criticized for stupidity, poor planning, idiotic construction work, etc etc...When costs were "quesstimated" at RD$40 billion this was poo-pooed as being absurd....and spun some other direction....

Now we see that they admit, yes admit to a staggering sum in a country where kids are fed hogwash for "breakfast" where a band aid in a hospital is impossible to find, where schools are holding cells for kids for about 3 1/2 hours a day...

This is what happens in a poorly educated society, where each individual thinks with his/her stomach and not their poorly formed minds...It sure as he!! turns my stomach!!

This is why education is not supported....you can't cut ribbons with jocks scratching their ba!!s in front of the TV cameras (Pedro martinez and David Ortiz) at 200 high school graduations, and too many thinking people would kick his axx to kingdom come...

HB