Do it now!

Fuel prices go up, naturally prices for transport go up. Prices for fuel come down, naturally prices stay the same. Is there anything new or unusual in that?

Juanb,

Works pretty much the same everywhere doesnt it!!!!!!!!!

PLEASE!!!

Go on Strike!!!!


PLEASE!!!

I thought private property was only confiscated in CUBA!

The government should have thought about not making the country vulnerable to thugs by investing in infrastructure. Reagan fired all flight controllers when a THREAT was made. These policies will always keep DR as a third world country...no matter how great our land is!!!

Fire up up the Metro and get those idiots of the streets!

"Menace to society'

Go on strike.... !!!

It would be better for everybody.

It is amazing how all the "Free Market Republicans on this site" support the consfiscation of private property and what appears to be wage and price controls.

Did you guys become Socialist like Bush and McLame?

What ever happened to the invisible hand of the market?

Forgive them Milton Friedman, They know not what they say!

Josean,

You have no idea what is Free Market Economics do you?

No anthony c, I have never believed in Fanatasy!

how many of the autos were financed by plan renove?

wonderful answer, josean. only delusional people believe in such a ludicrous concept as the "free market". the market can only be free insofar as it cannot be controlled and manipulated by powerful minority interests. we know that this is not so. if you have an economy which is characterised by monopoly, oligopoly, and monopsony, it is not a free market. when government contracts are awarded without a bidding process, there is no free market. just saying that you have a free market economy does not make it so. in the USA, for example, every single potato which is sold is controlled by one of six people. one is a canadian outfit, Cargill i think, one is the Simplot family, with the late patriarch JR Simplot, and 4 other players. those six outfits decide what you pay for potatoes in the land of the free market. you want to see how free the market is? try opening a hamburger joint two doors down from McDonalds. they will give you a lesson in the "free market".

"Written by: josean, 4 Nov 2008 1:49 PM
From: United States
No anthony c, I have never believed in Fanatasy!"

To bad.
It is the only system that works and is fair.
In facyt the computer you are using to post here is a direct result of the free MArket. So are the clothes you are wearing and the food you eat.

So either embrace the Free MArket or move into a cave.

Our local Bin Laden speaks out again, and again he´s supposedly fighting for the rights of the ordinary citizens by demanding the lowering of prices of basic foods. Don´t be fooled by this lunatic, the only thing he and the other terrorist leaders of the driver unions are interested in are their own pockets; he and his comrades could not care less about the people nor his own drivers, but just using them as instruments.

And regarding the free market issue mentioned in previous posts: the drivers unions are constantly being subsidized and receiving hand outs from the government, in turn they should accept regulation.
Public transport is not a free market at all; just get your car or buy a guagua and try to start picking up passengers on major union routes without "buying a route", just wait and see how fast your free market enterprise is going to collapse and you end up with all your windows smashed in (if you´re lucky), or worse...

anthonyc, how do you attribute the development of clothes to the free market? and food? are you sure you understand the term?

Dread:

That reference about anthonyc's comment isway out in left field.
You know exactly what he is referring to. It is the system of manufacturing and distribution coupled with the pricing element that he is talking about. Why do I need to remind you of thiat fact? Is it because you are taking something someone said out of context and trying to twist it into another agenda conclusion? I suggest that iswhat you intended to do. Correct me if I am wrong.

TB

Clothes?

Are you serious?
Do you have a pair of blue jeans?

Food?
Ever been to a supermarket....Heck even a colmado?

to Texas Bill and Anthonyc; are you asserting that the free market is an integral part of food and clothing? do i take this to mean, Texas Bill, that food and clothes cannot be produced in collectivised societies? if that is your assertion, am i to take it that the Soviet Union went without food and clothes during its existence?

The BIG difference in the Markets wer the fact that the collectivised ones were "CLOSED AND CONTROLED" whereas the other ones were "FREE AND COMPETATIVE", thereby having a higher quality as a result.
How many times were the grain markets empty in the"collectivised" nations due to inefficiant management and substandard seed sources?
Maybe you oughta read a little more about the negative aspects of your "El Dorado". Every year of the communist rule in Russia there were authenticatedreaports of thousands starving to death because of the failure of the agricultural sector to produce the foodstuffs needed to provide even the BASIC caloriy requirements for the population. That and the long food lines for what was available.
Don't you think it is time for you to be realistic. If such asystem were introduced in the DR, MILLIONS would starve because they feel that working in the fields is beneath them and have come to depend on the government for a handout.

TB

Texas Bill, there are other aspects which bring about shortages, not just the methods of organising production. external factors also apply. would you mind explaining why it is that there are famines in countries of sub saharan africa which adhere to capitalistic ideals? and, do you realistically believe that there would have been such shortages of consumer necessities in Cuba, had it not been for the petulant and vindictive embargo which has lasted just about 50 years?

dread;
We are not speaking to the phenomenons of nature which every geographical area suffers from from time to time. We are speaking about the ineptitude of "committee appointed" managers who hold their office, not by their expertise, but by virtue of being party members--very much like what we have in the DR today, and you have seen first hand where that leads---chaos.
Much of the problems in any society stem from the inherent corruption and greed of local officials and that can only be combatted by constant vigilence and attention to detail of occurances.
That we have very different ideas of the"best" type of economic plan for a society is self-evident. never-the-less such plans depend on the type of people running the system andjust how dedicated they are to the effectiveness of that system. Again, the DR is an outstanding example of the failure of the political persona to adhere to the principals of their own constitution and the included legal and enforcement system.
TB

TEX; you are making my point for me. the DR is a free market society, yet look how it functions. it is no more efficient and productive than Cuba, is it? with all the resources available, and the support of American capital and assistance, do you think that the DR has outperformed Cuba? had Cuba maintained its production model, but with access to the latest machinery, technology, and IT services, do you believe that it would still be languishing in poverty? it is like forbidding a kid from getting coaching in a sport, then saying he is no good at playing the game.