NewsWhore
06-16-2008, 05:50 PM
In today's A.M. column in Diario Libre, editor in chief Adriano Miguel Tejada goes after people who do not want to understand the realities of Dominican life. He says that an old friend commented that the country is full of intelligent people who do not want to understand what our problems are, that they do not realize that their attitude makes them part of the problem and not of the solution. He goes on to say that we can look at the issue of fuels. The real problem is how to reduce consumption, not how to increase it, and if they reduce taxes on fuels and the stop charging everyone who doesn't pay for electricity but drinks a lot of beer, consumption is not going to decrease, and on the contrary, we will continue spending money that Venezuela gives us on smoke, money that our children and grandchildren will have to pay back.
Tejada goes on to say that they talk about the problem of education, a long and permanent process that is evident in all walks of life, but the government abandoned this issue a long time ago, since it doesn't hand over the resources needed to progress in this area and fails to assign a large part of the state publicity budget to educate the population about vital aspects such as a respect for authority, traffic signals, rules of common courtesy, preventive health measures, civic education, the conservation of our natural resources, and thousands of other subjects that are destroying our capacity to coexist and threaten our chances of survival as a nation.
Finally, Tejada points out that politics has created so many millionaires in this country but that despite all this, these political millionaires have not been able to create institutions to develop the country and with that they are digging their own graves. But they don't understand that either.
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Tejada goes on to say that they talk about the problem of education, a long and permanent process that is evident in all walks of life, but the government abandoned this issue a long time ago, since it doesn't hand over the resources needed to progress in this area and fails to assign a large part of the state publicity budget to educate the population about vital aspects such as a respect for authority, traffic signals, rules of common courtesy, preventive health measures, civic education, the conservation of our natural resources, and thousands of other subjects that are destroying our capacity to coexist and threaten our chances of survival as a nation.
Finally, Tejada points out that politics has created so many millionaires in this country but that despite all this, these political millionaires have not been able to create institutions to develop the country and with that they are digging their own graves. But they don't understand that either.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)