Error upon error

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In today's "Que Se Dice" the writer points out that the government is making a mistake by trying to justify first-class trips by government officials to Europe to promote President Leonel Fernandez's re-election bid, but continues by saying that the government makes an even bigger mistake when it tries to fool the critics who proved that the trip was being paid for by public funds. The writer continues by reminding the government that citizens criticize the government because they pay government workers' salaries and that it is their right to do so. The piece says that Presidential Press Secretary Rafael Nunez knows, or should know, that politicians should hold themselves to a higher standard. The writer exclaims that the government shouldn't say that the trip was funded by a private investor, who happens to be a friend of the President, or that the government shouldn't point out that this investor only sympathizes with the President's re-election bid. This is because as Nunez knows, or should know, this type of policy is known these days as rentismo, or renting the services of a politician. This is an investment on which the investor will eventually want "juicy" returns, but the writer then asks whether that is also justifiable and defendable?

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