Ok, so we've all shed tears over the horrible fate of the innocent young mother to be. No one should have to go through what she is going through.
I've considered the so-called "due?os del pa?s" one of the top two or three dissatisfiers for living in the Dominican Republic for years. It cuts across all segments of society, whether your are rich, poor, or somewhere in the middle, a passenger or a private motorist - and even if you are a concho driver - these guys make life miserable. I've bellyached about this before here. Something should have been done long ago.
The long time obstacle, of course, has been politics. Everytime anyone has hinted at reining this guys with regulation or replacing them with fit-for-human-beings public transportation, they start to threaten the political class and the citizenry by burning tires, ad-hoc strikes, psychotic rantings on "emisoras" like Alvarito's "Gobierno de la ma?ana." The sad truth is there are too many of them and the government is basically powerless against them because they can vote as a bloc.
As always, the situation has to come to a disasterous head before there is action. An innocent woman has to suffer a horrific war zone injury before someone applies a sanity check, ignores the sophist, nonsensical claims of being "padres de familias" whose only alternative to the abusive "transportista" mafia is street crime (as if what they do on a daily basis is much different), and forces the unions to treat their customers like human beings. It shouldn't take a national tragedy for public policy makers to apply common sense measures to long term problems affecting every part of the society.
Let's face it, produce from Constanza and Cibao chickens are treated with substantially more dignity and care than the unfortunate legions of Zona Franca workers who put up with drugged out (I'm not making that up, the positive tests are public record), sweating and swerving mercernaries who call themselves drivers.
Wow, I feel much better now that I've gotten that off my chest.
I've considered the so-called "due?os del pa?s" one of the top two or three dissatisfiers for living in the Dominican Republic for years. It cuts across all segments of society, whether your are rich, poor, or somewhere in the middle, a passenger or a private motorist - and even if you are a concho driver - these guys make life miserable. I've bellyached about this before here. Something should have been done long ago.
The long time obstacle, of course, has been politics. Everytime anyone has hinted at reining this guys with regulation or replacing them with fit-for-human-beings public transportation, they start to threaten the political class and the citizenry by burning tires, ad-hoc strikes, psychotic rantings on "emisoras" like Alvarito's "Gobierno de la ma?ana." The sad truth is there are too many of them and the government is basically powerless against them because they can vote as a bloc.
As always, the situation has to come to a disasterous head before there is action. An innocent woman has to suffer a horrific war zone injury before someone applies a sanity check, ignores the sophist, nonsensical claims of being "padres de familias" whose only alternative to the abusive "transportista" mafia is street crime (as if what they do on a daily basis is much different), and forces the unions to treat their customers like human beings. It shouldn't take a national tragedy for public policy makers to apply common sense measures to long term problems affecting every part of the society.
Let's face it, produce from Constanza and Cibao chickens are treated with substantially more dignity and care than the unfortunate legions of Zona Franca workers who put up with drugged out (I'm not making that up, the positive tests are public record), sweating and swerving mercernaries who call themselves drivers.
Wow, I feel much better now that I've gotten that off my chest.
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