Dr
every time i read one of those idiotic "leave DR be" posts i get seriously pi**ed off. you guys whine about the harsh laws in DR and making DR more like a nazi states of america. and then if someone robs your house or hits your car you are the first to bark, foaming at your mouth "where is the law? where is the police?"
who cares those new laws will make life more difficult to some nasty old fart passing his retirement years in DR, drinking from the morning and f**king hookers? DR is getting better so that dominicans can live better lives. stop holding back DR in the third world. let it move, let it progress. dominicans too want to live in a safe environment, sleep well at night without music blasting out, drive to see their family in the campo without the fear of being hit by a drunk young a**hole.
.....Another statist who believes that simply passing laws = progress: ...so the "dominicans can live better lives...."
have you even given real thought to the drivel you are speaking. Does it occur to you that such a law will increase the cost of doing business - in a country that needs as much business as possible, will increase unemployment in a country that needs as much employment as possible, will contribute to corruption in a country that needs a massive reduction in corruption, will embolden uneducated and potentially criminal police in a place where there are already to many of them behaving in antisocial and illegal ways, will increase the size and costs of an already inefficient government bureaucracy - which will be needed to administer these licenses ---
-the cumulative effect of such a law will materially decrease the quality of Dominican lives. These laws have negative effects on the real economy - this is something the statists, fascists, and communists can never get through their thick heads. And it is the economy that affects peoples lives for the better or worse.-jobs,investment, income, capital,
I would argue anecdotally that DR has far less problems with underage drinking and the US - if fact I can go so far as to say that I have never seen underage drinking in the DR- whereas it is rampant in the US with all the absurd laws.
FYI: there is little connection between access to alcohol and drunk driving fatalities.
"In countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia drunk driving and deaths caused by drunk driving are considerably lower than the USA. Drunk driving deaths in the UK were 380 in 2010 (12% of all fatal accidents). In California, there were 1,489 deaths from traffic accidents related to "alcohol or other drugs" in 2007 (22% of all fatal accidents). Alcohol consumption per capita in the UK and Australia is higher than the US and the legal age for drinking lower. Unlike the USA, these countries do not see restricting access to alcohol as having any useful role to play in reducing drunk driving."