With all those "FREE TRADE DEALS" you would think we would be Singapore by now!

"Written by: josean, 15 Oct 2008 10:45 AM
From: United States
With all those "FREE TRADE DEALS" you would think we would be Singapore by now!"

not even close.
Singapore has a Transparent Government. Low Corruption and pro-business laws.

Not to mention Singapore is situated in one of the World's most important trade routes. Pretty much everything shipped from Asia to Europe, Africa and the Middle East passes by Singapore.

and a well educated populace

Josean:


We?????? thought you were Haitian???

Extraordinary Editorial

"Una nación del siglo XXI no ha podido resolver un problema del siglo XIX: la energía eléctrica."

http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=173283

No Rubi sorry to disappoint you 100% come platano! Mangu morning, noon and night!

But I am not a METRO-SEXUAL like your hero Lie-onel!

Rubi,

Lie-onel and the PLD are preparing to betray you once again!

Source DR1

Agreement with Haiti?

Dominican Ambassador in Haiti Jose Serulle says that there is no better time than the present for the DR to sign a trade agreement with Haiti. He added that both governments are feeling the urgency. Serulle favors a broad-based agreement that is fair and helps strengthen relations between both nations. According to Serulle, both the DR and Haiti represent an important market and an agreement would only facilitate inter-country trade. Officials from both countries have consistently spoken of the need for an agreement, yet neither side has made any concrete moves to start the process.

With all these free trade deals the DR must be one of the richest nations in the world.
Or is it just a free holiday in exotic places for the directors to sign.

Oh, o, the PLD Economic Miracle, Imune form the World Crisis is in PROBLEMA!

"Bengoa revela por primera vez proyecciones ingresos del gobierno se caen en 9.8%"

http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=77441

http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=77342

Hola guys, a lot of scepticism I hear. Is that a trade? I do fear that trade deals are not so special anymore nowadays, should we wonder why there hasn't been one with the EU sooner? Anyway, let's be happy that there will be one soon; many small steps make big progress.

I would say that turning a country around is not an easy job. Whoever is part of the government, it would be a miracle workers job to do it in a couple of years.

And look how good a country like the USA is in making a mess of things.
Mind you, it has only a 110V electricity system, how primitive.
It has no schooling system with consistent quality at all levels for everyone.
It has no medical care for everyone.
It has no social security system for everyone.
It has no proper trans USA railroad system.
Democratic? Who has the most money to hire the best spin doctors, mass psychologists and run the largest campaign wins; mass manipulation.
Call that a first world country?
LOL
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So, why being sceptic about RD if the USA and others are faltering that much?

Oh boy, delante, your in for it now.

Speaking the truth on this forum will expose you to instant attack form the "My Country Wrong Or Right " crowd and the" America Love It or Leave It" chorus!

delante; you commie pinko, grassy knoll, tree hugging, whining, weenie, wanker, afronazi, dashiki wearing, sandbar living, Chavez loving, eat till you puke cheapie tourist, Fidel supporting loser, kwanzaa celebrating, Ebonics speaking Caricom flunkie!! how dare you criticise America?

just kidding, Delante. just giving you a taste of what might come your way from one of our well revered authorities on the art of the ad hominem.

dread,


Thank you for that public service! Maybe we should do like Homeland Security and develop a color coded threat level each day so people know what to expect from our local ingrown toe nails!

"It has no medical care for everyone.
It has no social security system for everyone."

Thank god for that!!!
We all know how great socialized Medicine works.

"Written by: delante, 15 Oct 2008 2:15 PM
From: Netherlands"

The Netherlands is one of those places where when you think about it you wonder why it is a country.
Besides Tulips and being a place fro the Germans to drive through on the way to invading France what good is it for?
Has Anything of Importance come from there? Anybody interesting?
Ok. You gusy make good Dikes. Big deal. Pile some more Dirt there.

anthonyc, socialised health care has its problems. but it sure beats having no health care at all. it is easy for people who have health care to decry the system in Canada, but 49 million Americans wish they had something that bad.

every Canadian who can afford it gets on his horse and comes to the USA rather than wait up to two years for a surgery

that, GC, is the issue. i noticed where you use the qualifier "who can afford it". those in canada who cannot afford it wait two years. in america, they wait forever. you tear a ligament in your knee in the states, that is it. in canada, even if you wait, you can get it repaired. that is the difference. and do not give me crap about the emergency room; they do not treat injuries like that in the emergency room.

can you think of anything more beautiful than 36 red roses on top of a grand piano ???????

How about Tulips on an organ

anthonyC said: "The Netherlands is one of those places where when you think about it you wonder why it is a country.
Besides Tulips and being a place fro the Germans to drive through on the way to invading France what good is it for?
Has Anything of Importance come from there? Anybody interesting?
Ok. You gusy make good Dikes. Big deal. Pile some more Dirt there."

Mr. C, please think (and read) more before making such ignorant remarks. If it weren't for the Netherlands and their stubborn opposition against catholic-spaniard bigotry during their eighty year war of independence (1567-1647), Spain would still be the dominant power on this world and not your beloved US.

lautaro you bit ....what a fish......

you should have stuck with Two Lips on an Organ

there goes Mr Lautaro again, casting pearls before swine.

"If it weren't for the Netherlands and their stubborn opposition against catholic-spaniard bigotry during their eighty year war of independence (1567-1647), Spain would still be the dominant power on this world and not your beloved US."

I am sorry but that has to be one of the Dumbest Things i haveread in a long time.

This is not the first time that I have wondered how the heck you got your hands on a "doctorate", anthonyC. But seeing your obstinacy in ignorance, it seems to me that you bought it, just for the chance of adhering the letters Ph.D. after your name.

see what i told you, Mr Lautaro?

It's like they say over here, dreads "La ignorancia es necia".

For being such a defender of capitalism, he's showing a great deal of irreverence, insulting the first maritime empire of the capitalist age, and which, with the Bank of Amsterdam, set the model in which the future British Empire (with its Bank of England) would further the system's future conquests, against the universal monarchy model represented by the catholic countries such as Spain and its successor in bigotry, Royal France. Every free trade economist knows this by heart.

Lautaro,

As my granpa use to say "Mi hijo hay algunos que hay que dejarlos bruto!

Blah Blah Blah.

Hey Dutchies.

What have you done lately?

Set up an international court in which war criminals and other murderous slime (like your dears Emperor W and Darth Cheney), can be brought to justice.

bruto is the word for the day, Messrs Lautaro, and Josean. in this guy's case, it is the word for every day. and, Mr Lautaro, if he could understand what you posted, i would suggest you bill him for online education classes. but it all goes over his head, signifying nothing.

Heck, it does prove your assertion that human stupidity is indeed boundless, dread. Guess that old Einstein's question is finally answered, and not by an answer to be glad about.

I've read that some "human rights" organizations and other socialist nuts are protesting in the streets because the DR signed this trade deal with the EU....I almost forgot to mention that the ones protesting are haitians in Haiti. Their country didn't sign the deal, but they are angry because the DR did.

I find it very funny that these wackos think they're so smart.

I seem to have triggered some interesting further conversation.

Oh, and in case you didn't know, Peter Stuyvesant who founded New York was Dutch, the place used to be called New Amsterdam.

AnthonyC, are you from RD? If you talk about NL like this, than you probably have not much appreciation for RD either. It happens to be only 50% larger than NL and it is an Island.

By the way, I was told off by Russians some years ago that the Dutch medical system is rubbish, compared to the Russian one. From what they told me, I could follow their reasoning.

Cuidate

Again I ask.

What have the Dutch done lately?