I enjoy living in my native country after spending most of my life living abroad. The warm weather all year round, the beaches, mountains, countryside and tropical atmosphere, the generally bright and happy disposition of most Dominicans in spite of many hardships and so on.
But when I go out on my daily walk along El Malecon and see all the trash
left over, from the disorganized entrepeneurs with their unhealthy and un-clean food businesses, from the night before I get disgusted; and when I have to go down onto the pavement when some small entrepeneur has taken over the sidewalk for a repair shop, fruit stand, etc. I get upset. Right around Maximo Gomez and Independencia the 'padres de familia' (heads of family--those that justify breaking the law, trashing things or just misbehaving generally to the fact they have to provide for their families regardless of what they do to society in general) driving their barely-running vehicles with their dangerous natural gas connections (virtual rolling bombs), blocking lanes, intersections and urinating right on the street, I wonder where the authorities are. These are the infamous 'transportation syndicates' which have ripped off every government and the people since the end of the Trujillo dictatorship back in 1961.
What authorities? Everyone from the president on down are too busy on their own personal agendas to worry or care about citizens' general welfare. They have never been able to provide basic services such as energy, water and trash pick-up service. Much less health and education. The current president is on his seminar-summit-meetings schedule and is extremely detached from the daily needs of those that elected him. His advisors are too busy pushing pet projects to enrich themselves and/or those near them. The opposition of the moment is trying to do whatever they can, regardless of the harm to the country's needs, to remove those in power now so they can do the same or worse. Case in point, the 2000-2004 horrific PRD government we just barely survived.
I have an idea. Could we send about 5 million Dominicans to the European Union in exchange for about 500,000 German and Dutch citizens? How about we send all 100% of the PRD, 90% of the PRSC (virtually the same interest in getting in to steal the peoples' resources) and 75% of the PLD (I would leave all of the economic team who have done an excellent job of recovering the economy, and the most faithful followers of Juan Bosch; the most honest Dominican leader of modern times). I would hope to send all the members of transportation syndicates including 'motoconchos', all motorcycle and scooter riders, everyone that wants to get into the drug and prostitution trade. That should just add up to about 5 million perverse souls.
We don't want any Spaniards or French who got us into this mess way back when. We also don't want any Americans since they have helped make the original French/Spanish mess even worse, here and in most of Latin America.
I'm even willing to take 300,000 low-class Europeans since with about 200,000 good German/Dutch citizens and about 5 million good Dominicans left behind, we could get a great society started. Boy, what a possibility that would be. However, would the Europeans make the trade?
OK, I know, it's a fantasy but....I'm a Pisces.
But when I go out on my daily walk along El Malecon and see all the trash
left over, from the disorganized entrepeneurs with their unhealthy and un-clean food businesses, from the night before I get disgusted; and when I have to go down onto the pavement when some small entrepeneur has taken over the sidewalk for a repair shop, fruit stand, etc. I get upset. Right around Maximo Gomez and Independencia the 'padres de familia' (heads of family--those that justify breaking the law, trashing things or just misbehaving generally to the fact they have to provide for their families regardless of what they do to society in general) driving their barely-running vehicles with their dangerous natural gas connections (virtual rolling bombs), blocking lanes, intersections and urinating right on the street, I wonder where the authorities are. These are the infamous 'transportation syndicates' which have ripped off every government and the people since the end of the Trujillo dictatorship back in 1961.
What authorities? Everyone from the president on down are too busy on their own personal agendas to worry or care about citizens' general welfare. They have never been able to provide basic services such as energy, water and trash pick-up service. Much less health and education. The current president is on his seminar-summit-meetings schedule and is extremely detached from the daily needs of those that elected him. His advisors are too busy pushing pet projects to enrich themselves and/or those near them. The opposition of the moment is trying to do whatever they can, regardless of the harm to the country's needs, to remove those in power now so they can do the same or worse. Case in point, the 2000-2004 horrific PRD government we just barely survived.
I have an idea. Could we send about 5 million Dominicans to the European Union in exchange for about 500,000 German and Dutch citizens? How about we send all 100% of the PRD, 90% of the PRSC (virtually the same interest in getting in to steal the peoples' resources) and 75% of the PLD (I would leave all of the economic team who have done an excellent job of recovering the economy, and the most faithful followers of Juan Bosch; the most honest Dominican leader of modern times). I would hope to send all the members of transportation syndicates including 'motoconchos', all motorcycle and scooter riders, everyone that wants to get into the drug and prostitution trade. That should just add up to about 5 million perverse souls.
We don't want any Spaniards or French who got us into this mess way back when. We also don't want any Americans since they have helped make the original French/Spanish mess even worse, here and in most of Latin America.
I'm even willing to take 300,000 low-class Europeans since with about 200,000 good German/Dutch citizens and about 5 million good Dominicans left behind, we could get a great society started. Boy, what a possibility that would be. However, would the Europeans make the trade?
OK, I know, it's a fantasy but....I'm a Pisces.
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