Wasn't Gulliani hired by Mexico City authorities to help with the crime wave there? If so, he has done such a fabulous job there! Crime still continues to increase!I was only kidding when I said you needed intervention. Half kidding anyway. I have actually thought the best thing the DR could do would be to hire Rudolf Gulliani to be your supervisor. He would clean up the mess and get you on the right foot. Put all the bums in jail and teach you all that you shouldn't steal from each other.
Its true, the DR ills are caused right here in the DR. However, those ills are the side effects of foreign powers telling us how to live and not showing us how to do it. Ever tried to telling a kid that drinking beer is bad while you yourself are drinking one. Do you think the kid is going to put attention to your words or your action?I don't think it is outside intervention that the DR needs just as I don't think that is what is causing the DR's ills. I just hate it when I see people like you and Porfio blaming the US for government malpractice, greed and corruption of and by Dominicans in the DR.
Or have you ever told a kid to not look a toy in a room or not touch something. As soon that you leave the room, what will the kid do? The kid will look at it and touch it and continue to do so until you come back. If you don't come back, then the kid will continue do what he was told not to do.
The samething applies if its so true that the DR can't govern itself. The "self governable" foreign powers tell us that we are doing it wrong and then they failed in leading us into the right trajectory of development.
Not a taking of private property, but a deterrent to any foreign company in particular that want to capitalize from our resources. Let us develop at our own pace. This quick easy riches is the rhetoric that has fueled this globalization trend. Rich countries tell poor ones that by allowing rich countries companies to go into poor countries that poor countries will become rich without working for it.I hope the gunboats return if the DR tries to do a taking of private property. That is not acceptible behavour anywhere in the world.
Here is a secret, work equals money, no work equals no money. End of story. Globalization is good for the west, but not the rest of the world. Otherwise, the IMF and other global entities would not have agreed painfully to the fact that the timeperiod between today and 1970 (when Globalization was being geared up) was the time of much unnecessary backwardness in many developing countries with GDP either falling since then or soaring at first and then collapsing.
There is no need for apology. We are just expressing our points of view, not trying to dictate over anyone. Or are we? Hmm...I apologize for any other comments.