NewsWhore
11-20-2006, 05:00 PM
In a feature published over the weekend in Hoy newspaper, former Agribusiness Council (JAD) leader Jose Antonio Martinez Rojas suggests that the government cut some of the RD$3 billion spent on propaganda, eliminate the "complacent" credit cards for government officer no-limits spending that in his words, "lead to afternoons of drinks and snacks of up to RD$75,000 at taxpayers' expense", and reduce the President's foreign travel entourages. He comments that on the President's London trip earlier this year, the government paid expenses for over 30 people. He also says that major reductions could be made by reducing the excess numbers of staff members who are assigned to overseas embassies, including what he describes as "a bunch of parasites" appointed abroad but who live in the DR where they collect their wages. He also mentions the government's purchase of "1,500 luxury SUVs in the past two years" as superfluous expenses that could be reduced instead of increasing taxes.
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