NewsWhore
02-14-2007, 02:50 PM
The AM editorial, on page 2 of Diario Libre, is a mixture of Voltairesque satire and good, old-fashioned irony. The writer, Ines Aizpun, says that people are wrong when they say that there are no solutions to the problems affecting the population. On the contrary, says the editorialist, the nation has the people, the money and the diagnostics. All that is needed is to be focused on one issue.
For example, she says, just imagine if the financial freedom enjoyed by Diandino (Pena, the Metro builder) were twinned with the meticulousness and polish with which Roberto Salcedo (Santo Domingo's Mayor) breaks up curbs and gardens that are in good shape. Or imagine if the determination with which Leonel (Fernandez) wants to change the Constitution - by explaining what it is we want - were added to all of the ideas that Danilo (Medina, the former presidential minister) has come up with since he left office.
All this, the prize-winning editorialist continues, protected with a little of the "what-do-I-care" attitude of Felix Jimenez (Tourism Minister) in dismissing his critics. Add the air of serenity that surrounds Amable (Aristy Castro, the head of the Municipal League) since he got his US visa back, a document that apparently justifies his existence upon this earth and that he recovered thanks to the intervention of Our Lady Of Grace, among others.
Aizpun goes on to ask the reader "to imagine Juan Hernandez (Department of Taxes) deciding to look into the pockets and corners of the government administration instead of in ours, and find the money that is needed in the over-sized payrolls, in the illegal commissions, in public officials' parallel accounts." Imagine, she says, Carlos Morales (Foreign Minister) dedicating his efforts to Foreign Relations as if he really believed in them and making all the ambassadors on the payroll actually do some work. Or imagine Radhames Segura (CDEEE) investing the same amount of hours into lowering the electricity rates as he does explaining to us why they are so high.
Imagine if all this talent, all this money, all these skills and discourse were to be directed, for example, at resolving the crisis in the education system. How dizzying!
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For example, she says, just imagine if the financial freedom enjoyed by Diandino (Pena, the Metro builder) were twinned with the meticulousness and polish with which Roberto Salcedo (Santo Domingo's Mayor) breaks up curbs and gardens that are in good shape. Or imagine if the determination with which Leonel (Fernandez) wants to change the Constitution - by explaining what it is we want - were added to all of the ideas that Danilo (Medina, the former presidential minister) has come up with since he left office.
All this, the prize-winning editorialist continues, protected with a little of the "what-do-I-care" attitude of Felix Jimenez (Tourism Minister) in dismissing his critics. Add the air of serenity that surrounds Amable (Aristy Castro, the head of the Municipal League) since he got his US visa back, a document that apparently justifies his existence upon this earth and that he recovered thanks to the intervention of Our Lady Of Grace, among others.
Aizpun goes on to ask the reader "to imagine Juan Hernandez (Department of Taxes) deciding to look into the pockets and corners of the government administration instead of in ours, and find the money that is needed in the over-sized payrolls, in the illegal commissions, in public officials' parallel accounts." Imagine, she says, Carlos Morales (Foreign Minister) dedicating his efforts to Foreign Relations as if he really believed in them and making all the ambassadors on the payroll actually do some work. Or imagine Radhames Segura (CDEEE) investing the same amount of hours into lowering the electricity rates as he does explaining to us why they are so high.
Imagine if all this talent, all this money, all these skills and discourse were to be directed, for example, at resolving the crisis in the education system. How dizzying!
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#3)