In an editorial today, Diario Libre newspaper corroborates the complaint raised by the civic society group Participacion Ciudadana that the government is not seeking savings by eliminating the more than 150,000 unnecessary public sector jobs. The newspaper says that the comment everywhere is that the number of appointments made by the new Fernandez administration in government offices is equal or surpasses the number of cancellations. The newspaper concludes that the national aspiration of savings in government by reducing the government payroll has been but an illusion. “The bitterness remains that it will be awhile before the political culture changes,” comments newspaper editor Ines Aizpun. She mentions that reducing the payroll was one of the things that is in the government’s control. “Simply there is no will or sufficient authority to impose austere budgets, and that was not what we had talked about,” she writes. She admits that enough time has not passed for Dominicans to demand results from the new government, but sadly writes about the too many questionable government officers, too few new faces that suggest renewal, few concrete measures and electoral promises that do not look like they will be fulfilled…