And pensions for all. It's Christmas time!

Other than the Embassy in the US and Spain you could probaly close the rest everywhere else in the world.

All those "Stupid Steal Your Money Functions" most likely could be done online from anywhere in the world!

All this can be done through a website and FedEx!

NYC Consulate? I've been there, this is not it.. the building style seems to be in a tropical climate.. maybe Miami?

josean
Close all the embassies except US and Spain?
What about all the donations and grants we get from countries, that we have diplomatic relations and commercial representations, close them too?
Like Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, Brasil, France, Germany, Italy, Taiwan, Japan.
Give us a break!

What benefits does the average Dominican get from these grants?

I am sure the cost benefit ratio to the average citizen is miniscule at best

How about paying these people the same as you do teachers and doctors? Even better pay all government officials the same as teachers and doctors and see how quickly teachers and doctors get paid properly. Pay the police correctly and maybe they wouldnt be so corrupt.

Josean if the PRD ever gets Back in this is the only hope you Have of getting Back your stateside Botela yes josie you a diplomática in a poliéster suit and a bad haircut.....a picture no artist could paint

If my memory serves me correctly you were once DT's ambassador to Banistan!

keep the necessary personnel... cut the rest!!!

In these tough economic times, the country must pare down its diplomatic corps to the bare essentials.

In the grand scheme of things, in diplomatic circles, we are not really that important. We really aren't. We are a small country, with meager economic and other resources. That is reality, no matter how nice our metro might be.

A country with its hand perpetually extended out looking for economic aid, should really desist of diplomatic excesses.

While we are at it, reducing unnecessary personnel and cost, we should also consolidate communities and decimate congress. Most are useless anyway, and are unlikely to be missed. It is utterly ridiculous that a country of meager resources would have some of the highest paid congressmen in the world, and some of the most corrupt and inept, as well.

MJEV.

JOSE- H,

In the recent DC celebaration of the DR embassy, we were trying to find you to say hello. In fact. my blood brother is one of the regional leaders of the infamous PLD here in the MWV AO. Safe by the bell..... just wanted to say hello..

Vintage eloquence Dr. Strangelove!

I disagree with closing the embassies around the word. Nor a re-structure process should be done for all the embassies.
For example: why there is no Dominican-Arabic business trading !!?? The Dominican embassies in UAE, Qatar, Jordan steal your money just to stamp or legalize any official paper by them. One of the embassy ask for US $400 to just stamp the paper. This is kidding.

If you need more info please contact me

JESUS that's MIaMi!!

According to the most recent Global Competitiveness Report we are the third worst country in the world for deiversion of public funds. That means that those in power are stealing and wasting all of our money. The wasteful spending on the foreigh workers is just a very small drop in a very big bucket.

Embassies ( and especially consulates ) are of a high importance to each country.
Especially for the citizens abroad. ( quote: All this can be done through a website and FedEx! ).
Many of your countryman/women need personal assistance in the countries they live in and I am certain that not all your fellow countrymen/woman have acces to these systems. Furthermore, the Dominican ( at least not all ) consulates are not the high budget type of consulates.

The consumers are more likely within the DR than outside

This is the problem with trying to reduce government spending, every sacred cow has a constituency trying to save it from being slaughtered.

We have always read about how disproportionate the Dominican Republic's diplomatic corps is relationship to its size as compared too much larger countries, but now when even the Foreign Minister admits they are not necessary suddenly they are indispensable!

We should think of the situation as if it were our family budget. We need to live within our means, separate want from absolute need and stop or get rid of everything else. Since we cannot print money or borrow from the IMF, then we would have no choice but to make some sacrifices. Yes, this would make sense to me.

Since our bloated military is ineffective, then we should perhaps consider consolidating it to a level commensurate with our real needs, or maybe even follow the Costa Rica model. Wtih such reduction, we could afford a professional force, with minimum requirement of high school diploma and passing entrance proficiency and physical tests. For junior officers, minimum requirement should be two years of college in criminal justice. For senior officers, the requirement must be a master degree or higher.

MJEV.

Not all you read is true....

Written by: generoso,

josean
Close all the embassies except US and Spain?

What about all the donations and grants we get from countries, that we have diplomatic relations and commercial representations, close them too?

Like Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, Brasil, France, Germany, Italy, Taiwan, Japan.

Give us a break!"


Only the cyclonic loony would advocate such an extreme policy adjustment. While we can and should better control expenditures aboard by consolidating marginal embassies, etc., we should keep in mind that DR can not function in the new world as in the past. One positive outcome of the PLD Era has been the vast broadening or recognition of the DR internationally. Before the rise of the PLD, DR was poorly known internationally. The previous occupants had done a very poor job of PR internationally.

So make some necessary cuts and keep the important ones going. Don't know if it's true but while in Prague earlier this year, I was told that aside from

room and board and a small stipend, the DR representative had to seek out opportunities to enable him and his family any further comforts. His task was to drum up business within his term in town.
I believe he stated that the local government provided access to school for his children. Don't know if this is so, perhaps others can give us information concerning how much these representatives really get from the DR public purse.

Another defender of Sacred Cows!

Lie-onel always talking about pie in the sky, but never presents hard evidence on the ROI to the average TAXPAYER who foots the bill!

Reading many comments on DT saying that Dominicans do not pay taxes? So...

Close embassies and open schools!

Speaking of Schools:

These Kids might not get a chance to be diplomats!

“The Progress of Leonel Fernández did not reach the Liceo Víctor Espaillat Mera”

“While the teachers talk about biology or history, a saw or hammer is heard, trying hold-down boards that emerge from the ceiling or improvised floor”

SANTIAGO, Dominican Republic.-the economic miracle that was sold by the propagandists (josean inserts Atabey) in the service of Leonel Fernández Reyna (president from 2004 to 2012) to the Dominican people for eight years failed reach to students and professors of the Lyceum Victor Espaillat Mera, in the Ensanche Espaillat, Santiago.

In this school Dominican boys and girls attend, that have rights guaranteed by the Constitution and the laws. They are the same that faint because of the heat and the subhuman conditions in which the of this school find itself.

continued:

Read the rest of this sad story and see the revolting pictures at:

El progreso de Leonel Fernández no llegó al Liceo Víctor Espaillat Mera

Mientras los profesores hablan de biología o historia, se escucha un serrucho o martillo, para sujetar tablas que se desprenden del techo o del improvisado piso

acento.com.do/index.php/news/22306/56/El-progreso-de-Leonel-Fernandez-no-llego-al-Liceo-Victor-Espaillat-Mera.html

El progreso de Leonel Fernández no llegó al Liceo Víctor Espaillat Mera


"FACTS"; the Purple Dragons cannot hide from the truth.

Here is another one the Can't HIDE!


Did anybody on DT get a TAX payer subsidy of 2million pesos to buy their apartment?

Did Atabey lose out?

“New details of the piñata of Leonel Torres El Progreso”

“Each apartment is valued at 5.8 million pesos. To facilitate the "purchase", the Government gave a grant of 2 million pesos to each purchaser. So the price was reduced to 3.8 million pesos”


continued:

How about Atabey is he a Funglode employees entitled to an apartment from the under TAXED Dominican people?

Read the rest about this theft at:

Nuevos detalles de la piñata de Leonel en torres El Progreso

acento.com.do/index.php/news/22315/56/Nuevos-detalles-de-la-pinata-de-Leonel-en-torres-El-Progreso.html

Once again, through all of the blur and static noise of lunacy, wisdom surfaces in the wilderness from articulate and rational commentators like glomarexplorer and Atabey. In one example, the former admits honestly that as a small country, the DR is not a major influence in the development of world events. He, rightly, suggests that diplomatic budgets should be pared down to within the means of the country relevant to its influence on the world stage, while acknowledging the importance of such diplomatic missions; supported by another comment about living within our financial means (“We should think of the situation as if it were our family budget”). Atabey clearly understands the importance of diplomatic missions in his contribution to the dialog, pointing out that the “DR cannot function in the new world as in the past.” While all agree that budgetary cuts are necessary, all recognize that in order to exist as a modern state in a global economy, the maintenance of diplomatic missions

The DR has gained significant foreign investments from around the globe as a result of its diplomatic initiatives. Atabey even provides an anecdote of the DR mission in Prague (which by the way is a beautiful city). While it is popular to ridicule all public servants, there are those who serve the true goals and needs of the people. And they do so without the glamour and accreditation so often attributed to government positions.

Final analysis: keep the diplomatic missions; slash the budgets as necessary to reduce waste and as glomar states gut the unnecessary and ineffective military. What the hell is this country doing with such a sizable military anyway?

To the two wise men: hats off gents!

I challenge you or anyone else to do a cost benefit analysis of these embassies, consulates, diplomatic missions ect. and you will be shockingly surprised.

Josean you forgot the forensic word

Then you would not have a reason live, which on second thought wouldn't be such a bad thing!

@Gringo,

Thank you for kind comments.

MJEV.