NewsWhore
07-29-2011, 05:30 PM
Ramon Colombo writes today in El Caribe about the absurdity of political patronage that insists on creating worthless jobs by carving up the country into more districts and municipalities.
"A state of 48,000km2 with 32 provinces (1,500 square kilometers and 312,000 inhabitants on average), with 158 municipalities (with an average of 303km2 and 63,000 inhabitants each), and 228 municipal districts (of 193km2 and 44,000 inhabitants each) is a madness of underdevelopment, a laughing-stock country, where planning is impossible. Logically. Add another 43 initiatives to create new municipalities and municipal districts, and it is clear that this atomization policy continues, the current political system has only one way to go: it will sink. (Hopefully)."
Onofre Rojas, former director of the National Council for State Reform, told El Caribe that the creation of the new municipalities and districts just multiplies bureaucracy and cuts into the budgets of the municipalities. He called for legislators to freeze the creation of new districts and instead push forward the study of the bill that proposes to create Unique Planning Regions, which was drafted by the Department for Ground Planning. He said the fragmentation of the country is dangerous for the country because it reduces the capacity for investment and splits up possible development projects.
Deputies Victor Bisono and Pelegrin Castillo said that the fragmentation just increases political patronage.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)
"A state of 48,000km2 with 32 provinces (1,500 square kilometers and 312,000 inhabitants on average), with 158 municipalities (with an average of 303km2 and 63,000 inhabitants each), and 228 municipal districts (of 193km2 and 44,000 inhabitants each) is a madness of underdevelopment, a laughing-stock country, where planning is impossible. Logically. Add another 43 initiatives to create new municipalities and municipal districts, and it is clear that this atomization policy continues, the current political system has only one way to go: it will sink. (Hopefully)."
Onofre Rojas, former director of the National Council for State Reform, told El Caribe that the creation of the new municipalities and districts just multiplies bureaucracy and cuts into the budgets of the municipalities. He called for legislators to freeze the creation of new districts and instead push forward the study of the bill that proposes to create Unique Planning Regions, which was drafted by the Department for Ground Planning. He said the fragmentation of the country is dangerous for the country because it reduces the capacity for investment and splits up possible development projects.
Deputies Victor Bisono and Pelegrin Castillo said that the fragmentation just increases political patronage.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)