I would like to know what would be your solution to DR top 6 problems.

1. Corruption & Moral Values
2. Education
3. Economy & Energy
4. illegal Immingrants
5. Crime and Drugs
6. Health care

What would you do if you were the president to solve this top 5 problems?

Here are my solutions

1. To end corruption in DR the first step is to go back to Basic catholic and moral values. We have to re-instate the public trust by transparency and adopt Texas 3 minimun bid for any project paid by tax payers. Create a law that would consider "unpatriotic act crime" to steal from the goverment and anybody that does must be terminated and put under investigation with no questions asked.

2. We must solve this problem by the root and it starts with responsible parents and a yearly evalution of each school by the performance of its students and create a Database nation wide and create a top 50 students in the country program.

3. Economy & energy are two problems that i believe go hand to hand because both have to be fix before either one moves forward. For the economy we should adopt a mix of Capitalism and Socialism but keep tilting to capitalism more and hold responsible the general public by expecting something back from everything the goverment provides. For energy problem we must move away from fossil fuels and look at alternative like Solar,wind,Otec and hydrogen. Out of all OTEC is the better option for DR since we are the best place to take advantage of it plus the cost to build and the result promise a lot more but also look at Solar as second option.

4. We must respect Human Right as much as possible but we must also protect our own interest and act on it. We must patrol the border better and those illegaly in DR must be returned back and find ways to speed up the immigration process for Haitians and others that are willing to coming into the country legally.

5. We must re-instated and promote Juntas de vecinos and create a sence of community work and use programs like Computer statistics to analyse those area in DR that are the most problematic. By the way i'm working on a system that would solve this problem if interest contact me for more details.

6. Health care should basic and based on salaries and mostly preventitive care but strict on those who qualify like imposing exercise routines and better diets to improve their health as much as possible before more money is expended if major health problems

Not suprising.......ZERO RESPONSES.

But everyone have an opinion to save Haiti....yet, they can't save their own country.

Unbelievable.

Makes you wonder if many here are DOMINICANS are simply FOREIGNERS living in the D.R.

Thank you for those words because now i know who bring solutions or at least try and who just want to say something. I started this thread in a way to find out who had any solutions since there is a lot of talk about everything else but when push comes to shove nobody steps up to do it. By the way i didn't expect nobody to write anything because from the begining i set the bar high by writing a lot to begin with. maybe i should had split it into 6 different threads and i would had gotten better response from all the "intellectuals" here.

Trully right.

I chose to talk about this two because the solution for 3 is directly tied with the solution for number 1. Only when dominicans as a whole understand that the state exists in order to serve and not to enrich ourselves will be the moment in which economic and energy problems will practically vanish, and if not vanish, they will at least lessen to a great extent. The DR is perhaps the only country in Latin America in which the vital resources of transportation and energy are not seen as a vital component for the well being of the state machinery, but just as vehicles to create a clientele, and if we don't change this mentality soon, being labeled a failed state will be the least of our worries.

The Haitian problem is our first problem.
If we can find how to resolve that problem everything is going to be easier for us, everything.

For Haitians: Even with our “curiosities” we are not as bad as you are and never we will be.
Do yourselves a favor and learn something from us, well if you do not want to be the mess that you are forever.

I have said this before that Leonels has to show some guts and solve both corruption inside the gov and re-enforce the border. Leonel should tell preval that he must do something on his side or deportation of the ilegal should start soon because we can't handle the 2 million. I have no problem with Haitians in the country legally thats a good thing. He should tell those who always talk about helping Haiti to either put up or shut up. Unless Haiti gets fix DR is going to have a hard time getting out of the hole.DR should tell USA to do something quick since they are the leader of the area because who knows what may end up happening something soon. I wish Haiti the best so DR can concentrate on DR's problems for good.

A coup d'etat led by someone willing to fire half the senate, congress, sindicos, etc. Less $ spent on these people is more that will be available for social programs. As for moral values, parents need to made more responsible. Child support enforcement should be taken more seriously and parents of teenagers found prostituting themselves should be jailed. Regarding illegal immigrants, remove the current president from office, his unwillingness to deal with them is a little too obvious.

I mostly agree with you but firing everybody is not an option the preseident can enforce him self because it won't be good he just need to introduces legislation that put more restriction on how money goes out. Ending corruption from gov projects is a lot simpler than people think. Take from texas 3 bids rules from anywhere. Any ex member of gov cannot lobby for 10 yrs else face prison if found. Consider anybody stealing from the Gov/tax payer a Unpatriotic act with a jail time of up 50 yrs or in worse cases expatriate who ever it is. Child support is little harder because there is no system in place if any parents fail to pay it or how much to pay i say just come up with a figure and split it in half because both have to be responsible for their act. Ilegal immigration flowing in should be stop right now by simply asking preval for assitance on his side or face the consequence of 2 million deportations soon. then if he agrees on helping we can start charging high fees for entering into the country ilegally and have them wait in line like everybody else. or the will never be able to obtain a visa. As for prostitution there should be a lot higher jail time like 3 month for first 6 and then 2 yrs to 3rd timers and so on and as for the pimp it should start at 3 yrs 6yrsand 15 yrs.