We await the nattering nabobs of negativism

Is that photo an artist's impression???? Sure doesn't look like that from behind my windshield! Where are the holes...uneven ruts and garbage?

ahahah negativism~~~~ xDD i don't care just ignore them


i'm very happy for this news! e' pa lante que seguimos! :D

Everybody loves Dominican Republic.................

Record FDI, yet poverty has increased, unemployment and underemployment still a major problem, problems btw civil society organizations and the government continue, and a slew of other issues. Like always, people who benefit from the status quo only focus on the positives and are TERRIFIED when basic assumptions of their perception of "what's good" are questioned.

Good for you mike. keep telling us how things are where you are. We need to get accounts of people who live in the interior and people who live in barriors, not just people living in tony areas, dominicans abroad, and people in the ivory tower. Maybe people in el Barrio duarte de herrerra are happy with their economic prospects. Or maybe people in Azua are finally getting an influx of resources to deal with the intense misery that plagues that province. And lets hope that some of the FDI is benefitting Elias Pina.

Hurray for FDI, even if the rest of the country se lo ta llevando el diablo!

Finally a nabob rears his ugly head

guess we'll never see that mula, LF is getting his pockets lined well

your right Gatita , " your screen name reminds me of the song from Julian.

I just hope some sort of industries are being built alongside tourism.

and how does that song go?

"Don't worry 'bout a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."

BTW Right now were better off than most in The Latin American and Caribbean region.
Have a little faith in your fellow countrymen. Don't worry.

The good thing about FDI this year is that it's much much diversed. More countries are investing, which means that our relations w/ other parts of the world, besides out ex-conquerors the Spanish and the Americans, are increasing. I just hope that the FDI benefits more areas than Punta Cana, Casa de Campo, and maybe Puerto Plata.

Send some of that money to La Vega where about 30,000 FTZ jobs have evaporated and the city is living in a peculiar state of desperation.

" Besides our ex conquerors.."..does that say volumes about what is going on in that head

Baldoria spot on, could not said it any better.

" 'Besides our ex conquerors..'..does that say volumes about what is going on in that head"

actually, I think it says it all about how I want to change our relationship w/ the US and SPain, which continue investing and expropriating our resources. Sure they provide jobs, but at what costs? and what type of jobs? reality is more complex than ideological statements like "FDI is always good for a country" - one needs to be more nuanced, and be more critical until we discover the entire effects of a social/econ/pol phenomenon.

There seem to be so many press releases from government sources that are always short on the important details. In this case we do not have any idea of what the money came in for or where it came from and is it net foreign investment after funds are repatriated to other countries or is it simply one side of the the movement of funds with maybe just as much going from the country into the usa after sales of land in developments. Is it foreign investment that generates jobs or not?? Who knows '? For example when I have brought significent amounts of money into the DR, no one has asked and I have never filled in a form as to whether the money is simply for living expenses or for capital investment .

Americans are now living in tent cities.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/160698
Investment is needed in many countries towards sustainability. It is to be hoped that DR has its share.
http://www.cityfarmer.info/category/cuba/
More local food production - some yuca and plantains are going down in price as production increases. This needs investment - terracing ,water, composting etc. Small scale dairy seems to getting more popular.
S.

US reels to 3rd World status with huge power cuts and people heading to shelters:
http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.2699801/
Tent cities etc.
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/492292.aspx
Investment in DR may well be very attractive.
As the world economy sours, and major American financial institutions are being exposed for their greedy and deceptive financial practices, America is being seen not as the engine driving world prosperity, but rather as an out-of-control locomotive that will soon pull the world into an economic train-wreck!
http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/cgi....ry=Magazine56&item=1220252542
S.

S.

abc2000 this is the very same thing i have been battling people with.., especially foreigners. asking them why? why do you all want to come live here in America, its no better than where you are, and it's as bad as second worlds we are so slowly climbing into the third world catagory, but as you know people only want to see what they want, America land of the free (what freedom, there's no freedom left here) land of fortune (but where, especially if your an imigrant, they'll arrest you and send you back to where your from, its illegal to hire imigrants anymore), land of the brave (which brave, those that murder your kind that are not from here or those that deal drugs and get you involved becuase you can't find a job)

pussycat dont humor the criminally insane

hey baby

and now were all going to almost be on the streets, because..........who knows, somethings happening, somewhere those people involved knew what the consequences were going to be for the wrong they were doing, now who pays for that crime, Yes the tax payers and how, by taking more of our hard earned money, which creates more of a domino effect, we can bearly meet any needs, the USA is no better off than the DR.

jajajajaj

hey papi

I have never wanted to live in US. The attraction used to be the large tracts of land etc. For example someone poor would be given a homestead in Alaska. The resources are about 15% of the Worlds resources with only 5% of the World's poulation. But these resource are increasingly squandered and their use is trashing the planet. Now Russia, Brazil, Venez are attractive.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article694292.ece
S.

yes indeed they are, and believe me, I've never liked the USA, I don't know just have never felt it, what other people say it is