I am absolutely amazed that people don't see this as the single biggest obstacle to a stable, consistent day-to-day government there is. This needs to be fixed, period.Scandall said:During Leonel's first term he enacted a permanent civil status for government employees to try and stop the rediculous 99% turnover that happens everytime the administration changes. Hipolito repealed that too and thus on Leonel's first day the entire government was replaced....all the way down to the cleaning ladies (with a few exceptions). Nobody can work with that kind of turnover. It takes people a year to learn a new job anyway.
Scandall
Additionally it adds to the corruption and extortion on the lowest level, because a worker knows he's got 4 years to get all he can before he joins the ranks of the unemployed.
A total workforce of patronage employees is laughable in terms of respecting the institution of government.
The US would appear to be Third World, too, if it ran its day-to-day governmental affairs the same way.
If the DR wants to play in the First or Second World, it has to function like a First or Second World country governmentally.