NewsWhore
08-31-2009, 04:00 PM
El Dia editorial comments that one of the most consistent and well-documented criticisms made to the Fernandez administration is regarding the burgeoning payroll. "Unfortunately the government is deaf to the calls that austerity begin with the elimination of unnecessary posts," writes El Dia. "People do not forget the large number of deputy ministers that have been appointed to do nothing, but receive undeserved wages," states the writer. But then it points to the report on Friday in Hoy on the enormous and very superfluous spending of the Ministry of Foreign Relations. "What reasonable explanation can there be to justify 64 persons at the New York Consulate, or 47 with diplomatic status at the Dominican mission to the United Nations? asks the writer. "Or the 37 employees on staffat the Miami Consulate, or the 32 in the Organization of American States mission in Washington, or the 23 at the Embassy in Washington? What does this represent in dollars? Millions. But that does not seem to matter."
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