Hey LF: Cut this:

Economist Bernardo Vega says that the DR could feel the short-term effects of its growing foreign debt. He says the problem is not so much the total of the debt, or its relation to the GDP, or the payments that need to be made against foreign exchange receipts. The problem is that every day a larger proportion of the debt is made up by "hard" loans and short payment terms, high interest rates and reduced grace periods, and because they are for the purchase of goods and services without tender and consequently padded, he explains in a contribution to Hoy today.

Vega warns that 61% of the foreign debt expires within the next 5 years.
He asks out loud: "When will the next renegotiation of the foreign debt come when we do not have in our budget sufficient resources to pay what we already owe?"

Read the whole article at DR1

The Central Electoral Board (JCE) is still RD$877 million short, part of the RD$1.364 billion additional budget required for the logistics and organization of the congressional and municipal elections next 16 May.


Why do they need more, when the deals have already been made?

josean,
Did you hold the door open for LF?

I'm so proud of my government officials:

JCE on Julio Romero

In another, perhaps more serious matter, the possible nomination of Julio Romero, an admitted pederast, will be investigated by the JCE if it does take place. Castanos Guzman did say however, that if there is no conviction for a felony, a person does not lose his right to stand for election. Feminist groups are challenging the PRD to revoke Julio Romero's pre-candidacy for deputy, after he admitted to getting an underage girl pregnant, denying paternity and failing to provide child support. When the scandal was exposed, Romero argued that this was common practice in the DR and he had done nothing out of the ordinary. The protesters were led by gynecologist Lilliam Fondeur and Lourdes Contreras, director of the gender studies department at INTEC University.

Aren't you?

palante presidente...malo no es hacer, malo es hacer nada.

Lion-nel where there is progess there Lion-nel

It’s so fitting that a FAKE President inaugurates a store that sells FAKE furniture!

Some Dominicans are such gullible clapping Seals!

Good news for the DR.
100's of Jobs
Competition for the market.

A win/win situation.

I bet his pokets get fat by the minute. There goes another deal that Lee-FLEA c0-brokered. This guy has some COJONES, doesn't he realize that 90% of the Dominican Republic makes less than US$1.50 an hour and with the price of commodities increasing daily, how do he expect anyone to by anything now a days.

And some CUBANITOS as well are such gullible clapping Seals!

It's just an IKEA for goodness sakes! lol Do we really need the president to be cutting ribbons and bragging over this? Honestly, this is getting embarrassing.

joblitsky,

Precisely!

Well some comments of people/ or animals in here make me vomit, a bunch of idiots with no life, and you know very well who i'm talking about. Buuuuuuuuuuuuut who cares anyways? what they got to say??

de compras a IKEA este sabado! =D

Oh my even idiots have a life = Pro fernandez for example

ha!
Yes pro Fernandez and proud of it. :b

Here is little rain on your parade Ateo!

I hope your happy on how LIE-onel Fernandez stabbed in the back fellow Dominicans in favor of the particle board outfit!

Creating 500 jobs, eliminating 100,000

The president of the National Association of Furniture, Mattresses and Related Industries (Asonaimco), Juan Jose Attias, is appealing to Ikea to sooner than later feature locally made articles in their new store that opens today. He said that everything sold in Ikea is imported. He speculated that while Ikea is creating 500 jobs, it would contribute to the bankruptcy of hundreds of furniture-related businesses and a loss of around 100,000 jobs in direct and indirectly related businesses.

"What happens is that Ikea has set up shop in a market like this where furniture is very important", he stated. He adds: "Asonaimco has asked for a meeting, but always, without listening, they tell us that they are not interested in working with local producers for the time being".

DR1

IKEA is a very independent company, i like IKEA i think I'm there biggest fan. If they decided to come to the country it was a great decision. Those are just pure non-sense speculations buddy, IKEA meas more competitiveness and that's good for our market, in the future they'll probably build there own factory here and create thousands of job, this store now doesn't need pressure from outside bigots, it's brand new here .. Now let me enjoy my sunny day :)....

Can Haiti create 100 Jobs...? Jjajjajjajajajaj


Never in a million years.... jajajajjajaj

Well they can, if they work together to build a better positive society.

What does Carlos Franco, Ateo and Ikea have in common?

A: That they are all prettier and attractive then you.

Look, everyone can exercise their vote with their money.

Dominicans are naturally intelligent and astute. If they deem Ikea's products to be substandard, and if they feel especially patriotic, then they should spend their money elsewhere and support their brethren. Who the heck are we to dictate to our people what and from whom to buy. They have already suffered long enough and been dictated much.

People like quality and, with limited resources, Dominicans would not be wasting their money on inferior products if they perceive them as such. Let my people be free to choose what they want and how they wish to spend their hard-earned cash.

Competition is a great thing, and helps technology move forth. In the end, we all benefit from it.

Perhaps Dominican furniture makers should be concentrating more on improved quality and cost and efficiency rather than Ikea. If they do offer a superior product, then they really don't have much to worry about.

MJEV.

glomarexplorer,
diversity on products is the key for a strong economy and it gives away more freedom for those Dominicans who love this store. There's lots of foreigners and Dominicans in the county who where waiting for this new store.Not only that but the standards of organization IKEA has are excelent it its a good example for our society to learn from.

Ateo,

I would agree with your comments immediately above.

good to know

Josean asks “What does Carlos Franco, Ateo and Ikea have in common?”

CF and ATEO are Dominican patriots and are from a progressive country and IKEA likes that so they invest in us.... They won't invest in Haiti for obvious reasons)

josean lol clapping seals your to much

Survival of the fittest.
Vamos a ver if Colchones remoelados or Caoba criolla verde SA can put up with the new Viking invasion.

My money is on IKEA.

Ikea has created 2500 new jobs for Dominicans, president must be supportive in order to continue to attract foreign investment. This is a good impression for Ikea corp. who knows they may decide to open a second store in Santiago and add another 1500 new jobs. Do you know how many family members are benefitted from these jobs?
Josean,
Can you create 2500 new jobs?

To all you ORGASMIC IKEA fans with love!

Please read this before you submit the company to the Vatican for Sainthood or declare it the SECOND COMING!


"The Truth About Ikea" alleges that the company fosters a racist corporate environment, with executives calling foreigners "niggers" and denying them promotions. Stenebo calls Kamprad's likely successor an "incompetent racist."

This is not the first time a writer has accused Kamprad of racism. In 1994, a journalist revealed that Kamprad was a member of a Nazi organization in his youth. At the time, the Guardian reported that this "was about as devastating a public relations disaster as it was possible to imagine."

Imagine what the must call LIE-onel Fernandez behind close doors!


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/money/....ounder_of_ikea.html#ixzz0fqY9PJpv

There goes the Neighborhood.........on the road to prosperity. That will show the Cubans and Hugo-a-go-go's boys about open trade.

Josean,
Wake-up !!!! I don't know about you but my many years living in America working with today's youth I hear Afro-American youth call each other "My Nigga, what's up nigga" etc..etc..

I won't even bring up what the Afro-American youth call their Woman and it has nothing to do with the Christmas holiday.

Even OH'Blama's half white side has side stepped the Jesse, Farrakhan and Sharpten's of America, why always use a race card ?

Ikea only cares about one color.........GREEN ! I wont even bring up GREENGO.

Besides remember the bus boycott of the 1960's.

Take care my Brother of another color.

Josean deals the slimy race card off the bottom of the deck

abc will be selling Swedish meatballs in the parking lot dressed in his now famous clown suit big shoes and all

riosm,

I am sure you were trying to make a point and not an EKG graph, but maybe before Christmas you will!

Banistan,

The only thing slimy is the fish you are fed at the Aquarium!

Now Carlos Franco and Ateo will rush tomorrow morning to change their daughter a son's name respectively from IKEA and IKEO to some more traditional Dominican names!

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My God, we are talking about a store here, where people would shop of their own free will.

Why do we have to politicize this?

People are called niggers and honkies and morenos and detenio everywhere, so why do we have to make this so bad here-which I really do not believe.

Ikea is bringing choices, providing significant jobs, paying taxes-so what exactly is problem?

Should we kick them out, replace them with those government chains from Cuba? Would our people really be better with that choice?

The time for ideological crap of the 60's and 70's has come and gone. It is fact that hose who embraced the purely left-leaning doctrines aren left in the dust; those who embraced the more progressive doctrine of free market and capitalism have fared much better-no matter how you might spin it.

Communism is moribund. It doesn't work. It never has and never will. Even the Russians and Chinese have abandoned it. DR must not embrace it.

Stop the nonsense!

MJEV.

While joseana el haitianito is being bombarded in all his h o le.. i mean sides with comments he doesn't seem to like, I'll be hooking up with a Scandinavian beauty around here ;)......

Dr. Strangelove,

Opposing the equivalent of the 99 cent store of furniture is not tantamount to endorsing Communism or advocating for the destruction of Capitalism. It is just disagreeing with another flavor of the month hoopla presented to us as the greatest arrival in the Dominican Republic since antibiotics.

With regard to politicizing it, it was LIE-onel Fernandez who did that by taking the photo op. Imagine how the world looks at us when the president of the republic attends the opening of a five and dime in the furniture world.

I am not only opposed to this because I think their stuff is GARBAGE at ANY PRICE but also the location which adds even more congestion to and already miserably overcrowded area; more eggs in the same crowded basket if you will.

continued:

I know you better and truly believe that you are not one of those dogmatic free marketers that believes EVERY capitalist venture is noble good and should be supported blindly just because it’s a free enterprise project.

Finally with regard to quote: “People are called niggers and honkies and morenos and detenio everywhere, so why do we have to make this so bad here-which I really do not believe.”

Because this not just any Tom, Jose or Leroy saying this, this is one of the wealthiest men in the world who has the economic power to enforce his prejudices.

I am sure if you and your neighbors in Fresh Water Paradise-NY Finger Lakes found out that a corporation moving into your community was owned by a person with similar views you would at minimum take exception to them.

At least I hope so!

More information for those who like to live with their head above the sand!

"The book has attracted enormous media attention in Sweden, with its unprecedented attack on a national institution by one of its former senior executives. The last time the furniture giant came in for such negative publicity was more than a decade ago when Mr Kamprad senior was unmasked as having been a wartime member of a Swedish pro-Nazi organisation.

He managed to survive that stain on his reputation by publicly apologising and writing personally to all of Ikea’s Jewish staff. This time around, Ikea has dismissed the book as “the author’s personal opinion on Ikea and the Kamprad family. Ikea sees no reason to make a comment on someone’s personal view on the company.”

http://cryptogon.com/?p=12103

ateo2010,

I love debate!

Too bad you can't provide one!

to tell you the truth debate is not my passion.

Ateo ,

Maybe you are more of visual guy!


http://www.ikea-injury.com/index.html

http://www.ikea-injury.com/blog/index.html

http://www.stopikea.com/

Dean Josean,

I can see your point of view.

Even though we are all armed to the teeth here, we really don't have much leverage in preventing stores such as OTB [worst than a porn store-I really mean it!] from setting up shop in the neighborhood.

We really could do much worse than Ikea in that neighborhood.

I expect things to be different in DR, because we are a largely colored society and the Kamprads are capitalist store owners bent on making a profit. If they humiliate and offend the buying public, then they would soon be packing up their store and moving somewhere else.

I've visited Ikea stores in Newark and Pittsburgh, and I observed quite a few minorities working there, many of whom were smart college students. They were not people who would take kindly to discrimination and racism, at least I wouldn't think.

Let's give Ikea a shot; if they disrespect us and our culture, then "lets push them into the sea with our pitchforks." That should be fair.

MJEV.

I sent my Pitchfork to Banistan so he can have it Gold Plated with what’s left of Barrick Gold!

Those Swedes better walk the straight and narrow ‘cause it’s a dam long swim from El Malecon to Sweden!

"to tell you the truth debate is not my passion."

Never has anything been more obvious!

LOL!! oh man, no comments XD

Why do i get the feeling that when it comes to racism that some Dominicans want to sweep it under the carpet and act as if it doesn't exist ?

Just look at all the high level Dominican executives at the "GRAN" Opening!

The only darkie is LIE-onel Fernandez from what I can see!

http://www.noticiassin.com/www/?g....y_article&aid=13295&tid=8

ateo2010,

""I'll be hooking up with a Scandinavian beauty around here ;)......""



You are reallly a self hating island hopper.

Why does it has be a black and white issue with you.???
Why dont you join the kkk or the Arian brotherhood???

Love your Race my friend.

GLOMY says '...
My God, we are talking about a store here, where people would shop of their own free will." Josean does not believe in free will ...Josean for the " Greater Good " will make these decisions for us

Josean and Hitler.,.Hitler is an important ideological weapon helping josean win just about any argument with right-wingers. As such he must be viewed as pure evil at all times. This, of course, creates a philosophical paradox: it is common knowledge that morality is relative and there is no such thing as absolute good and evil. The answer is that Hitler is a necessary exception. If he didn't exist he'd have to be invented. What makes him so evil? It doesn't matter. He's evil, period. You needn't know unless you are an advanced student of the progressive theory. If you are, then you must know that Hitler was also building socialism

Josean Greater Good..A metaphysical concept designating anything that undercuts capitalism and the frivolous American way of life, and/or promotes the new, progressive mode of being. Any action taken with altruistic intentions in mind, regardless of its practical result or purpose, or of the misery that it may produce, is considered a contribution to The Greater Good. In various contexts may denote an opposite of capitalism, a euphemism for Communism, or an atheistic alternative to God. Also known as "Common Good." E.g. "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the Common Good." (Hillary Clinton) The masses invariably find this expression quite analgesic and convincing. Use liberally while enforcing wealth redistribution schemes.

Tell that to the Six Million JEWS he slaughtered you NAZI apologist!

calling people these ugly names does not suit you ....You would be called a ...Idealistic Activist
Any progressive who takes the Collectivist, Marxist message to any public forum. Commonly referred to as Peace Activist, Environmental Activist or Important Intellectual of our Time. Never to be confused with: Hateful Violent Reactionary Mob....keep this in mind little buddy

calling people these ugly names does not suit you .....it only demonstrates you are angry ...and you have picked the absolute worst example as an anti Semite

Now the little Third Reich admirer is so rattled that not only is he repeating himself but he posting the same obfuscating rhetoric twice!

Josean,
what ever happened to FREEDOM of CHOICE......

So if one shops there he agrees with the company's ideology ?

Tell that to those soon to be employed by Ikea and the surrounding Neighborhood's that will benefit.

The bus boycott of the 1960's was meant as an example.....no more.

I was right it was over your head.

Josean take a chill pill......... better yet take two, then read.

The part about the Christmas holiday......I also fell insulted when the Ho! word is used to depict ANY WOMAN, the point being....after all they also have Mother's, Grandmothers, Sisters, Aunts and hopefully one day WIVES not "My Baby's Mother".

i see where the Grand Poobah characterises the opening day of Ikea as a day for ¨rejoicing¨. i agree. for the Swedes, thats who. for Dominicans, it should be a day of introspection. they should be wondering why it is that a country with so many idle hands, and a fairly decent access to lumber products, needs a group of Scandinavians to come here from the far north and build us chairs. no sir, i beg to differ. a day of rejoicing would have been someone from the DR opening some sort of commercial outlet, of this magnitude, in Stockholm. the late John F Kennedy once stated äsk not what your country can do for you, but, rather, what you can do for your country¨. similarly, we should ask not what the Swedes can do for us, but what we can do for the Swedes.

Blutarsky is a strange and puzzling individual. if a man calls you a nigger, that is ok. if you make mention of it, with any degree of consternation, then you are playing the slimy race card. color me bemused.

" Dread, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Dread you're no Jack Kennedy.".........But Jack Kennedy did have a Swedish girlfriend and his brother Teddy was a very good swimmer and often played the race card

"what ever happened to FREEDOM of CHOICE......"

Yeah, whatever did happen to it!

Speaking of Ikea
How is this a big deal to say success to the Dominican People so the president gets involved in the Ribbon cutting. I am happy to see competition however it is an import company. That does not create jobs only transfers jobs around. Lets build something. Lets export things. Lets replace imports with local products.
Lets stop renting out the young pretty girls and steal their future just let the money get sent back out of the island.

Blutarsky, have you ever considered something such as nintendo as an alternative for self amusement? as to Jonbonz..you are on the money. i guess people are too filled with rapture about this incursion to take the time out to contemplate the moving parts. i guess if a few thousand woodworkers get put out of business, cést la vie.

Josean,
It's still around.....for starters, the freedom to choose and NOT to exercise it, the right to do so.

Too bad a few Latin American Country's to this day don't have a right to choose, their Socialist leaders choose for them because they know whats best for them.

Blutarsky,
I didn't know that ! .....I'm truly honored.

All take care.

What choice was given to the Dominican masses to allow a store in their community that is owned by a Racist NAZI?

Josean they elected this president. This president was at the ground breaking. The people made the choice.

Josean and the Nazis,.Hitler is an important ideological weapon helping josean win just about any argument with right-wingers. As such he must be viewed as pure evil at all times. This, of course, creates a philosophical paradox: it is common knowledge that morality is relative and there is no such thing as absolute good and evil. The answer is that Hitler is a necessary exception. If he didn't exist he'd have to be invented. What makes him so evil? It doesn't matter. He's evil, period. You needn't know unless you are an advanced student of the progressive theory. If you are, then you must know that Hitler was also building socialism.......Josean STOP THE INSANITY

As soon as you stop the repetition!

risom,

Here is something very SHOCKING you should read and let me know what you think of this tragedy!


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586581,00.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586627,00.html

Dominicans are ignorant about the owner if ikea, so what makes you think that Dominicans know about Hitler? if the store is eye candy to dominicans (thanks to their materialism) they will support and buy the products from the store, It is sad, but true. That's what happen when education is not top priority!

Do you think the Dominican Termites will like the Swedish Particle board furniture?

Ikea is a company that has just invested $85 million US dollars in the DR and created hundreds of jobs. Josean, how many jobs (legal jobs, just in case) have you created?

As many as you!

sweeping away I see

Did you empty the Swedes bed pan yet!

Josean,
And to think many wonder why I call you Josean, Josean "Da" Chosen, because you choose with just about every input to mixed things up !

You get a kick out of OUTRAGE !

Even many in Germany after WW1 CHOOSE freely Hitler's socialist system for new radical CHANGE not knowing what the end result would be.....not all Germans were Nazi's....and many Germans despised the Nazi movement before, during and after.

I'm beginning to think Josean and Belial are one in the same.

I welcome anybody's comment.

I almost forgot.......ALL read about the Jews during WW2 in Sosua.

Years ago I had the distinct pleasure to meet the curator of the Jewish Museum in Sosua and her Daughter, a meeting I'll never forget for the rest of my life, GOD BLESS THEM ALL.

Yes one can say the DR is also a mix of all International cultures...

And your point was?

Shocker IKEA built on allegedly illegally sold land:

Por MARITZA LOPEZ | 18/02/2010

La tienda IKEA se encuentra ubicada en los terrenos que era del Estado y donados por el Dr. Joaquín Balaguer a la universidad (ya vendidos ilegalmente) del antiguo Campus I de la Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU), Av. J. F. Kennedy Km. 5 1/2 al lado de la Ferreteria Americana por Departamentos.

If we were to continue with this attitude towards substantive, non-tourism industry, foreign investment, we are doomed. why not let the Dominican consumer be ultimate arbiter, just as it should be in any democratic process.

I am disturbed because much of the commentary wants to dictate what the people should want, have, and that's anti-democratic no matter how well-intentioned or spun.

I don't wish to follow the Chavez or Castro model, and I don't believe my Dominican compatriots wish to do so, either.

Ikea, at great financial risk [i would have never done it!] has invested about $85M in DR. We should be grateful for their initiative, risk. Let the people vote with their $ as to whether or not they should be viable in our country. To do otherwise would be not only condescending but also preposterous. Let's stop maligning Ikea so much and let our people decide their success or failure. Could we?

Thank you.

MJEV.

Dr. Strangelove,

¡Con todo el respeto que usted se merece!

I beg to differ that a furniture store on steroids is “substantive” investment, especially when they import 100% and produce nothing they sell locally.

I certainly do not what to dictate to people how they spend their money or for anyone to dictate to me how to spend mine. I also believe that the right to express displeasure with the actions of government and or business and their practices is also fundamental to the democratic process. And just as people should have the right to pick an chose what they buy, they should also have the right to pick and chose information about who is trying to sell them goods. They are not obligate to buy IKEA’s products nor are they obligate to buy my arguments but they should have right to decide on their own in either case.

Continued:

We should never try to limit dissentt if we TRULY believe in Democracy, whether it’s to our liking or not. Just like products, ideas have a market place and what determines what opinions are “bought and sold” should be the value they have to the individual consumer. Not by a big brother censor who determines what is popular or acceptable dissent and opinion.

I must also take exception to your statement quote” Ikea, at great financial risk [i would have never done it!] has invested about $85M in DR. We should be grateful for their initiative, risk.”

IKEA are big boys and have a lot of MBAs and CPAs and if they decided to take the risk it was after the executives were present a very viable business plan and good profit potential. They are not altruistic economic missionaries that came to DR out of the goodness of their hearts. You and I know the real business world doesn’t work that way.

Continued:

Dan Josean,

Very good point.

So I really find it demeaning to say to the Dominican people we should be grateful for their initiative. This is the colonized mentality that keeps us in the 16th century.
Who should be grateful are they, whom we allow to come into our country, in my opinion, with their garbage.
Believe me if they did not think they could make a profit they would have never set up shop in this land of MULATTOS not to use the word the owner prefers!

Dean Josean,

Do you expect their ROI to be above 10%? That would be a lot of particle board. I don't invest my own money unless I can get 1%/month. I don't suppose they will reach this level in DR. DR, with a population hovering around 10M, and maybe 2M in Santo Domingo and of limited financial means, offers very limited growth potential.

Dr. Dread, I would differ to your wisdom. Please chime in.

MJEV.

Doc, that frankly is above my pay scale and it may serves us well to hear Dread’s erudite opinion on such a matter.

However, I do know these are sophisticated boys and they would not have jumped into the Caribbean Sea if they thought they weren't going to be able to swim or at least tread water!

well, Glomar, once again, flattery will get you nowhere, because i simply agree with you in this case. i have no idea what the bean counters at IKEA consider to be an acceptable return on investment. if they consider somewhere around .4% as good enough to stay afloat, then maybe they will. 1% per month is a stretch. granted, the salaries are low, but are they low enough to counterbalance the costs such as electricity? and, is there a sufficient population with the means to buy enough big ticket items to make it viable? a lot of people may walk in the door, but it does not help if they buy a vase and a floral arrangement, and leave the buying of the couch and wall unit to the stores where the guys will give the fiao to the neighborhood denizens. bean counters suffer from one problem. all the MBA and CPA qualifications are worthless if you do not understand the CULTURE. that is why some mega barber shops such as SUPERCUTS fail in certain neighborhoods. because, in certain societies

such as african american communities in the USA, the barbershop is a place to hear stories, and talk all manner of political hooey. so, the customers will pay 10 dollars to get the shave with the straight razor, rather than shell out 6 dollars for a cut at SUPERCUTS. similarly, do Dominicans want to buy particle board furniture, or do they still yearn for the bulky, sturdy, caoba stuff from the Autopista Duarte? inquiring minds want to know.

Super Stores do fantastic business in Latin countries IKEA will be no exception................. Josean and Dread can stand in the parking lot and picket with their pitchforks all they like

dread,

Wait until the amply well endowed in the rear Belkis and Josefina sit on those chairs built for those European anorexics that are gluteus maximus-ly deprived and it breaks!

Compadre que lio!

josean do not mention Belkis dread is still getting over that she ran off with her so called cousin

and with his new flat screen

make that a plasma, Blutarsky. yes, Dean Josean, when Belkis and her primo Picatodo decide to do the horizontal mambo on those balsawood things, they will be pulling splinters out of her nether regions.

Dr. Dread,

Thank you for chiming in, bringing measure of clarity to this intrigfuing subject.

Personally, I had no idea as to the magnitude of the investment by IKEA in DR. This is a great deal of money to invest on singular store in country with low GNP, disposable income potential. The poor cannot afford much of the offering; the rich, with its appreciation for better things in life, is not likely to shop there for big ticket items, either. They can afford anything they want and, with their government connections and predilection for foreign goods-especially European, they'll go overseas to purchase furniture, then ship it back to DR-duty free!

A big part of family business is export/import and shipping, and we get to see a lot of what comes into the country.

BTW, how are you making out with that business endeavor we talked about. Please email me and let me know. I might have some additional information.

MJEV.

spoken like a true sage, glomar. it is obvious that you understand the aspect of Culture that needs examination. the guys who fly into Jarabacoa and such places on the weekends do not buy furniture with the warning ¨SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED ¨on the box. they go to Italy and buy the utmost quality leather covered things. God forbid their friends come over for chateaubriand in the maserati, and have to sit on pinewood chairs. the shame of it!

So they will soon be renting out space to Manuel from Moca to sell his Yuca, to help them with the overhead.

I got it dread!

didt know ikea sold cheap material furnitured lol

Dean Josean,

you wrote: "So they will soon be renting out space to Manuel from Moca to sell his Yuca, to help them with the overhead."

LMAOL!!!!

Doc.

Life is too short, and even shorter without laughter!

well then josean say something amusing.....glomy was amused when he saw the joke you were holding in your hand when standing at the urinal

Just because you enjoy looking at male genetilia it doesn't mean everyone else does!

Although, I hear you have that in common with some of your favorite presidents!

oooohhh!!!! LMAO!!!!! u went too far Josean!!! XD

With luck it will fail.
This is a no-good planet trashing tribe anyway that is invading with a secretive business and the profit going to god knows whom.
S.

Hey Mucho Loco,

TP has some Ouzo he tried and doesn't like. Go get some from him in "Borrachones" Thread. It will help tame your aggression against Ikea.

MJEV.

I can only wonder how many Ikea stores are in Havana,Cuba or Caca, Venezuela ?
HEY ! Let's ask Belial he should know.....

Riosm,

I would second that.

LMAOL!

No possible aggression against the invader. Just reporting factss that they are planet trashers with their huge unnescessary catalogue and that they sell only imports - many from China/Vietnam where wages are very low. Their secretive accounting and possible tax evasion are also in the public arena. Public should know these facts. Facts you do not like constitute aggression - that shows the bias and bigotry of some people.
American fast food outlets sell unheathy fries.
US oriented people such as glo are in denial - the party is over.
Even Munger friend of Buffet
Charlie Munger, doesn't know? Munger is warning us "It's Over" for America. Yes, "o-v-e-r," America's in decline, at the end-of-days, coming to "financial ruin," says Munger.

http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-....an-capitalism-the-10-final-scenes
It's time to be honest as I have been over Ikea and not stop in some denial delusional state as Glo has.
Countries that are prepare

, do not import so much, do not join the 'race to the bottom' with one dollar a day wages and encourage self - grown enterprise, encourage thrift and sensible use of resources, provide fair living conditions for their populations will win - those that join in on the final days of the vast international gaming house will loose.
S.