Your youth is showing. It appears you attack everyone that has a distinct view of the DR, other than yours. Yes, have seen the Boom as you say, and it has gone BUST! Sorry to Pop your Baloon through the Rose-colored glasses you wear. I am just realistic, I do see many great things for the DR perhaps in 8-10 years. People need to realize, that a bunch of pretty artist renditions and pics of half completed buliding, just dont cut it in the real world. Grow up Eriliza, and learn something about economics and real world business. btw I travel to the DR frequently, every 3-4 weeks, and I see it going downhill.... call me a pessimist. ... perhaps. I have seen the decline begin half way through Hipolito term and it has continued. ...More poverty, more lack of basic services and basic education. This is all I will say. Sorry, but I wont continue to waste effort on trying to show you the real world.

Dude, get a grip! The DR is not as bad as you make it seem to be! Look at all the infrastructure, the buildings being built, and all the solutions the government is trying to find in order to modernize teh country and depend less on imported combustible. I read, see pictures, go to Dominican forums, etc. which means that I am connected to reality. In fact, there are countries who are doing worse than us! Come on dude, get a grip once in your lifetime!

Juango and Oscar, forget trying to mount and sustain any kind of rational argument with Eriliza. how can you attempt such a feat, after reading something like this;?
How about in the US? How many people do you think can afford a house in Long Island, NYC, Los Angeles, Miami, or even Beverly Hills? Only rich people!!!! People who CAN afford the place.

Eriliza seems to be either a deluded optimist, or a real estate shill.or both. sadly, none of this is based on real analysis nor foundation, but some pie in the sky illusions. she is the person who steadfastly asserts that the airline will be a rip roaring success, with nothing to back that charge. i mean, it is not as though the DR has a long and illustrious history of administering airlines. if my perception serves me right, all the planes from Dominicana de Aviacion are out on some tarmac somewhere, collecting poisonous insects. and, after its demise, all other attempts have met a similar, less than exemplary, fate. suddenly, we have had a managerial epiphany, and this effort is going to meet with salad days. as to the charge that only rich people can live on Long Island: after reminding her that Broolkyn and Queens are also on Long Island, as are places like Brentwood, Freeport, Elmont and Uniondale, i run out of words to say.

Juango
Your youth is showing. It appears you attack everyone that has a distinct view of the DR, other than yours. Yes, have seen the Boom as you say, and it has gone BUST! Sorry to Pop your Baloon through the Rose-colored glasses you wear. I am just realistic, I do see many great things for the DR perhaps in 8-10 years. People need to realize, that a bunch of pretty artist renditions and pics of half completed buliding, just dont cut it in the real world. Grow up Eriliza, and learn something about economics and real world business. btw I travel to the DR frequently, every 3-4 weeks, and I see it going downhill.... call me a pessimist. ... perhaps. I have seen the decline begin half way through Hipolito term and it has continued. ...More poverty, more lack of basic services and basic education. This is all I will say. Sorry, but I wont continue to waste effort on trying to show you the real world.

Gizmo Here's a taste of reality Juango, in New York city most people struggle in paying the high rents when wages remain stagnant. Everywhere you go in this world your going to have struggles unless you're making ends meet or you are one of the few multimillionaires or perhaps a billionaire and we know that most people don't fall in this category reality check juango. Link. http://www.futureofny.org/home

here is a reality check for you, Gizmo. in new york, there are safety nets for people who cannot make ends meet. there is AFDC, welfare, section 8, unemployment, food stamps, shelters, and innumerable government training programs, and even some crappy make work exercises. i hardly see too much of that here, for the simple reason that it is too much of a burden for the economy to bear. but you cannot resort to your customary relative analysis to defeat the proposition by Juango that the boom is illusory, and real everyday Dominicans are not seeing a peso of that money. unless you live under a rock (let me leave that one alone), you will realise that there are certain common threads that run through this boom ,of which you appear to perceive so approvingly. a lot of it falls into a few basic categories, namely

1) outright scams, such as that foisted upon unsuspecting victims by those two rodents from Canada, the Elliot father and son crime syndicate

2)money laundering gambits

3)sweetheart deals between government players and their friends, relatives, sycophants, satellites, cheerleaders,supporters, and all other categories of parasites

either of those categories considered, the so called BOOM is just something for the eyes of the preponderant number of everyday Dominicans. they will be lucky if they can get a carnet to step on the premises!

DreadLocks
here is a reality check for you, Gizmo. in new york, there are safety nets for people who cannot make ends meet. there is AFDC, welfare, section 8, unemployment, food stamps, shelters, and innumerable government training programs, and even some crappy make work exercises. i hardly see too much of that here, for the simple reason that it is too much of a burden for the economy to bear. but you cannot resort to your customary relative analysis to defeat the proposition by Juango that the boom is illusory, and real everyday Dominicans are not seeing a peso of that money. unless you live under a rock (let me leave that one alone), you will realise that there are certain common threads that run through this boom ,of which you appear to perceive so approvingly. a lot of it falls into a few basic categories, namely
Gizmo Dreadlocks you surely are ignorant, scams exist everywhere even here in the U.S. read up the links matched by each item enjoy.
1) outright scams, such as that foisted upon unsuspecting victims by those two rodents from Canada, the Elliot father and son crime syndicate
1) Link. http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/349/RipOff0349506.htm
2)money laundering gambits
2) Link. http://www.rense.com/general28/money.htm
3)sweetheart deals between government players and their friends, relatives, sycophants, satellites, cheerleaders,supporters, and all other categories of parasites
3) Link. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/12/730585/-Buying-Congress-Back-.....Pt-1

the bottom line here in the DR is simple...do not ever ever ever buy a property here that is not built and people living there....and make sure enough people live there to pay the maint fees,so you do not end up on the 7th floor with no elec and no water,because management have not paid elec fees...
this beautiful country needs money spent on education and health first,not all this eye candy.
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Gizmo, i love to read your replies. they convince me that i am right in my contention that there is no limit to human stupidity. now, in what appears to be the zenith of your wisdom, you remind me that scams exist in the USA. really? i would not have known if you did not alert me to that fact. then again, how does that affect the price of tea in China? how does it pertain to the scams here? i am experiencing extreme difficulty fashioning a question for you. because, as per usual, i have no idae what your line of reasoning is. do you have one?

Gizmo, let's not waste our time giving real knowledge to these people. We gave them all the logical explanations of why booms are essential in a capitalist economy, but it seems impossible due to their fixed pessimistic mindset and lack of brain function for economic knowledge.