Diario Libre editorial today focuses on the size of government today. One of the greater concerns on the national agenda, a priority public matter, should be the size and cost of the state that has become a heavy burden on Dominican society, writes the editorialist. Mentioned is the concern for wages, but the large number of employees that grows with every election, and their efficiency. “This state costs a lot, but does not teach, heal or protect,” says the newspaper. It also points out that the state is not an example either of probity or transparency, rather is a paternalist state that serves to feed all whose political patronage is needed and to make rich the unscrupulous few.