Come on Leonel, tend to your own Country

Porfirio · #1 10-12-2005, 07:40 PM

16 trips, what a waste of fuel. Set an example and stop the entourage with a line of 7 or 8 cars and motorcycles raceing through the City,with flashing lights to intimidate us and burning gasoline (we pay for) to take our President to lunch. While Rome burned Nero played the fiddle. While the DR suffers with constant electric outages, Hotels are closing, Restaurants are going out of business, Zona Franca closes factories terminating over 38,000 jobs Leonel takes another trip charged to us overtaxed peons. We pay more tax for an airline ticket than the price of the ticket itself, and is the highest priced airline ticket in the entire Caribbean. Illegal boats wait every night for Dominicans to escape across the dangerous ocean to Puerto Rico. Elected Officials dine on Lobster, Shrimp & Steaks. For a few hours each week elected officials sit in overstuffed luxourious chairs that cost us thousands of dollars for each chair, and vote themselves more and more benefits, and higher salaries. Hospitals are inadequently supplied with essentials to treat patients, let alone save lives. Our children attend rat trap buildings with no chairs to sit in. Forget about decent books they are non existent. Our kids go to school without a decent meal to sustain them for the day. Our Government´s solution is to raise taxes, and barrow more money, putting us in an already ¨drowning in debt¨position¨. How will this all end ??

NALs · #2 10-12-2005, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Porfirio

16 trips, what a waste of fuel. Set an example and stop the entourage with a line of 7 or 8 cars and motorcycles raceing through the City,with flashing lights to intimidate us and burning gasoline (we pay for) to take our President to lunch. While Rome burned Nero played the fiddle. While the DR suffers with constant electric outages, Hotels are closing, Restaurants are going out of business, Zona Franca closes factories terminating over 38,000 jobs Leonel takes another trip charged to us overtaxed peons. We pay more tax for an airline ticket than the price of the ticket itself, and is the highest priced airline ticket in the entire Caribbean. Illegal boats wait every night for Dominicans to escape across the dangerous ocean to Puerto Rico. Elected Officials dine on Lobster, Shrimp & Steaks. For a few hours each week elected officials sit in overstuffed luxourious chairs that cost us thousands of dollars for each chair, and vote themselves more and more benefits, and higher salaries. Hospitals are inadequently supplied with essentials to treat patients, let alone save lives. Our children attend rat trap buildings with no chairs to sit in. Forget about decent books they are non existent. Our kids go to school without a decent meal to sustain them for the day. Our Government´s solution is to raise taxes, and barrow more money, putting us in an already ¨drowning in debt¨position¨. How will this all end ??

aaah, que sueño tengo despues de leer esto...

New luxurious resorts are opening and in the works, the foreign investment and investors confidenced is maintained by constant government reassurance, and... you know what, this blame game is getting old.

Apparently we will see Porfirio running for presidency in the next elections.

Imagine that!

project9 · #3 10-13-2005, 08:33 AM

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Apparently we will see Porfirio running for presidency in the next elections.

Probably as Candelier's vice president for the PRD ...

Porfirio · #4 10-13-2005, 04:56 PM

Look at todays news. Dominicans are up against a stone wall. Leonel continues imagining himself and his new wife as King and Queen of our Country. I respect my fellow Dominicans, and my abmition is to see a better life for my Family. Last week in Boca Chica, we went to the Hamaca Hotel, and the Hotel was empty, with no one on the beach. Two weeks ago friends from New York visited the Catalonia in Punta Cana, which was 1/3 occupied, and 2/3 vacant. We went to restaurants Davy Crockit, and Felini´s which were more than half empty. Pizza Hut & Pizareli,usually crowded was empty. Zona Franca is like a ghost town with 38,000 Dominicans out of work. Crime is up, and with no work and present conditions crime will continue to go up up and away. Usually the hotels, and restaurants were always full with waiting for availability of space. I don´t want to create a hostile atmosphere, but my Family here is finding it more difficult to live here. Relatives in New York who had intentions of returning to their ¨homeland¨refuse to return,and live here and have decided life here is much too dificult and will never return here. They all believe corruption is here more than ever, and with no electric service, banks failing, a President who does not give a damn, and no time in jail for Baez Figueroa, or Arturo Pellerano those with influence will rule forever.

Conchman · #5 10-13-2005, 05:02 PM

Bahamas is rich small country and their hotels are empty too in October. Its slow season.

NALs · #6 10-13-2005, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Conchman

Bahamas is rich small country and their hotels are empty too in October. Its slow season.

Conchman, let Porfirio vent himself out.

He's PRD and diehard.

There is nothing that will make him stop. To focus on what's closing and ignore on what's opening is unfair, to say the least.

I'll guarantee you he will not be complaining of the "hotel" dilemma when the High season comes in full swing. I hear advanced booking from Europe and the US in particular in many of the most prominent resorts is beggining to trickle in already.

Let him go on his rant.

For anyone who cares, here is the newest episode of Cronica Central magazine. It's a magazine that focuses on the Dominican economic progress and/or deterioration. For non-spanish speakers, accept my apology but its only available in Spanish, as far as I am aware.

BTW, the main topics in the magazine are:

The economic switch from crisis to recovery, the decrease in the unemployment rate, the 58th anniversary of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, The issue of the upward swing of petroleum prices and its effect on the national economy, the increase in average wages, the Convenience of a stable exchange rate, The issue of the contracts for importers, new books on economics and how it works, and the 4th cup Golf tournament hosted by the Central Bank among others.

http://www.bancentral.gov.do/cronica...07-2005-09.pdf

frank alvarez · #7 10-13-2005, 07:38 PM

Although PRD/PRSC 'politiqueros' tend to easily forget (or think some of us will forget) the disaster their Hipolito PRD government was (remember the PRSC went along with everything) and that the mess we are in now is their doing, not Leonel's. We were lucky that the PLD came on and kept the ship from completely sinking. However, Leonel is just too caught up in this international thing with his seminars, dissertations, blah, blah, blah, etc. I am honestly tired of it and wish he would roll up his sleeves and DO SOMETHING to improve at least one of the major problems facing this society.

I fear Leonel and the PLD will spend 4 years theorizing about everything and doing little to improve the energy, education and health systems of the country which, to me, are the most important. As time passes, they all seem the same and I am honestly disgusted with the whole system including our present president's government.

asterix · #8 10-13-2005, 07:48 PM

16 Months = 16 Trips Abroad. I Guess the Fuel saving plan does not apply to softtalking-ambivalentminded Dominican statesmans. Go ahead and build electric transportation ( for Diandi's pocket), and unnecesary "elevados" and let the rest of the country sink. Atta boy!! See you in 2008. Stop theorizing and start doing something worthy of anyone capable of running a country.

Note: not a prd, prsc or prsd follower, just tired of the same ol same ol.

Conchman · #9 10-14-2005, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by frank alvarez

Although PRD/PRSC 'politiqueros' tend to easily forget (or think some of us will forget) the disaster their Hipolito PRD government was (remember the PRSC went along with everything) and that the mess we are in now is their doing, not Leonel's. We were lucky that the PLD came on and kept the ship from completely sinking. However, Leonel is just too caught up in this international thing with his seminars, dissertations, blah, blah, blah, etc. I am honestly tired of it and wish he would roll up his sleeves and DO SOMETHING to improve at least one of the major problems facing this society.

I fear Leonel and the PLD will spend 4 years theorizing about everything and doing little to improve the energy, education and health systems of the country which, to me, are the most important. As time passes, they all seem the same and I am honestly disgusted with the whole system including our present president's government.

Oh come on, he's solving the energy crisis with the no gas after 8 pm law isn't he??

rellosk · #10 10-14-2005, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Porfirio

Usually the hotels, and restaurants were always full with waiting for availability of space.

This has nothing to do with the economy; I believe this time of the year (October 1st-December 15th) is traditionally the slowest time for tourists. Airlines always cut their fares (and routes) until December 15th.