Former Vice President Carlos Morales criticized the government for promoting the giant growth in numbers of employees of the state. He said the state now employs more than 330,000 persons, most of which hold "botellas" or jobs that could be done without, or for which persons do not do anything, but collect a salary. In an interview for El Siglo he said the government is creating many unproductive jobs. "I believe that the money that is being invested into unproductive jobs would be better invested in social development," he said. Morales was Vice President under two Balaguer administrations.
