DR and the Economy

[À bientôt]

Originally Posted by Mr_DR

[We are talking about someone that while in office could not handle bank crisis, the stability of the DR's currency and the economy, did not know how to communicate and on top of that did not even have one gram of ethic.
He makes a better comedian than president.

Didn't know how to communicate? You gotta be jokin', right?

Upon meeting Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi:

¿Y ke lo ke, karateca viejo? Dímelo cantando.

[Mr_DR]

Originally Posted by catcherintherye

"I think he will be nicely viewed in the history books right along the side of Trujillo, Balaguer, Guzman and Bosch as the only presidents in DR's history within the last century that have bring stability to the country."

Boy, who would have guessed that? Another revisionist rears his somewhat vacuous head.

Ok catcher, I would like to know your list of the top 3 that have done better than the ones mentioned.

[Texas Bill]

Dominican Government Officials will go down in History as that group of greedy ba$tards that taxed the nation into deeper and deeper poverty while making themselves richer than Methuslah, then skipping the country just ahead of the
Junta which displaced them.

Texas Bill

[NALs]

The only person Mr DR forgot to include in his list was Balaguer's relative Ulises Hereaux. BTW, Balaguer and Hereaux are or were related by blood. For whomever is interested, Hereaux was half-Cocolo and half-Haitian and as dark as a human being can be.

It was under his dictatorship that the foundation for the modern Dominican state was established in the late 1800s.

Trujillo developed the state from that foundation.

Balaguer initiated its democratization and its modernization.

Guzman and Bosch were rather marginal, though important critics in the entire process.

Fernandez continues its modernization process.

Hipolito, much in line with the entire PRD party, lacked a modernization plan for the government and society. The PLD and PRSC both had modernization plans, not the PRD. That party is basically populist in nature. Counterproductive for the country in general, are more traditional putting greater emphasis on agricultural development and not other forms of more modern development, etc.

Hipolito's term was no good at all. That's why he was voted out with little problems. He was no good.

Now, as for how smart he is, he's a very smart man. He's not good with public relations because of his flamboyant way, saying whatever comes to his mind with little regard for future ramifications, etc. But, he's a very smart man in general, an expert in tobacco farming and an astute businessman.

As for the people that surrounded him while in office, eh; some very smart like Milagros Ortíz Bosch, but a bunch of knuckleheads that should had never made it to positions of power. More than any other party.

-NALs