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Originally Posted by Ken
Mariaobetsanov, are you Dominican? Your post makes me think that you are. If you are, then posts suggesting you leave are irrelevant and in poor taste.
If I were a Dominican, I would be asking the same questions. I know many are as frustrated with what they see going on as you are, polls show that the majority of the Dominicans want an end to corruption, more efficiency in government, better electrical service, etc. But more need to speak up and demand change. At present, there is more reason for a political figure to go with the flow than to swim against the tide.
Like you, I believe there are well educated Dominicans who have what it takes to lead the country, to take a firm stand against corruption and punish the corrupt, and in other ways expect performance from those in public positions at the various levels. Some of the business leaders who have spoken out on Family Health and some other recent issues sound like good possibilities. But with the 3 major parties so well organized and entrenched, it would be very hard for any of them to say what really needs to be done and to get the party nomination.
What I would like to see is a group of young professionals decide that something had to be done to move the country in a different direction and invest whatever number of years it will take to build an organization, get their message across, and attract the support they will need to either win an election or frighten one of the present major parties into making the reforms the dissidents are demanding.
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well from what little I have been able to see of Dominicans trying to make a stand and fight corruption.......they get killed for their efforts......and their reward essentially is less income if they succeed......risk death for trying to make thing better so you can enjoy a poorer lifestyle...or shut up and get what you can.
its a tough cycle to break Ken.
you know the people making the roads know how to make them... they know how to go about it....why they dont????because there isnt enough money to do it right and pay everyone off.....and then all the people that THINK they should get paid off, that werent in the original plan to get paid off, cause more issues.
Then there is just the fact that in the dominican mind they will do it their way hell or high water...like all the DOMINICANS that try to GO AROUND a traffic congestion.....going up on the curbs and blocking the road 5 or 6 cars wide on on side!!!!!!!!!! because they are dominican and they dont want to wait...
they just dont care that a little patience lets the congestion ease....and EVERYONE is happy afterwards....no way in hades....they got to go and they are going now...so they drive where ever they think they can fit in ...and it makes the traffic issue 100 times worse!!!!!!!
AND they will do it EVERY TIME they get a chance!!!!!!!! how are you going to solve real life issues with a huge number of people who think like that???
You need a huge stomper in the sky... and when that happens, the stomper just smashes the car into the ground.....problem solved....one less idiot tommorrow as well.....there is no other solution.......
those people will drive over top of a seriously injured person laying in the road, because they are somebody and WANT to get by now!!
its a shame.......
bob
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