Who needs lights when we have a METRO to no where!

Fire Radhames Segura!!!

josean, you have taken a lot of stick from readers regarding your disagreement with the metro. i guess this recent turn of events will illuminate (oops, what a word) what you were trying to speak on regarding priorities. now, with the electricity situation in crisis, with no solution in sight, how is the thing supposed to run?

Again lie-nelly fixed the electrical system his first term- well anyway he said so.

well josean does have a point unless your a block head, ofcourse the metro can't function, there's no electricity to juice it up, lio-nely has to figure that one out, after all he was the one all about having a metro, there goes all that money investment, oh wait maybe lio-nely is going to fund the metro right out of his pockets, you see it, he funds the electricity just for the metro and every penny you put into the ride plus some, goes all back into his pocket, thats why you all voted for him, cuz he has a brain.

llego la luz eeeeeeeeeeiiiii el diañe !!!!!! se fue otra vez !!!!!




my obama acceptance speech party is going down the toilet.

do not let a little darkness deter you, trinitario.

dread this apagones are so long i forgot how ice look like.

Why in the world anyone would believe the same lies, day after day, from that worthless sack of s...t, Radhames Segura is beyond me. He continues to lie and lie and lie and when caught in a lie, he lies some more. Doesn't anyone have the sense to: A) Ignore him and B)fire this idiot.

I may have to agree. WTF is the Metro going to do when stores can not keep their lights on.

Muere uno operaban con foco en apagón

EL Nacional
Luego de ser llevado a tres hospitales, sin recibir atenciones, un comerciante murió ayer en el Francisco Moscoso Puello, cuando era operado de emergencia bajo la luz de una linterna, en medio de un apagón, tras ser herido de bala en la madrugada por varios asaltantes en Andrés, Boca Chica, donde tampoco había luz.

Tras ser herido fue llevado por familiares al hospital Darío Contreras, donde no fue atendido porque supuestame

I read a disturbing story in the paper today. A young man was shot down and operated on under a flash light because there was no electricity in any of the hospitals. This is why I so heavily disfavor the Metro, not because I am a politician or feel more for a party than the other. It is that our country needs resources in different areas, this is not to say that in the future we cannot explore these types of projects. This is a shame and resources should be spent on our local schools and hospitals.

trinitario, i have friends with invertors that are useless, because there are not enough hours of street electricity to charge the batteries. so they have no water, because the pumps work off the invertor. this is not good. my poor friend with the colmado is losing his shirt, since he made a good income selling cold presidente; now, he cannot sell a single one, since they are all hot. it is a really critical situation we are facing. then again, trinitario, when i go to visit my friends in San Jose de Ocoa, we do not have the luxury of ice where they live; we just drink the Palo Viejo straight from the bottle.

Dreadlocks: I can use some palo viejo (straight from the bottle) right about now. I will go and exercise my civic duty now. Obama 08

enjoy, BenCardozo! at least you have a choice of whether you want it on the rocks, or neat! Obama 08, and 012!!! republicans can spend the next 8 years counting the money they stole.

This has to be resolved rapidly, in my relatively peaceful neighborhood people are starting to arm themselves and are recollecting rubber tires, so I do expect some huelga´s to fire up soon.

Josean has his metro, this will become my slogan until it has become reality:

FIRE RADHAMES SEGURA!!!

palo viejo, ummm!! so many memories .

i don't like it too much it gives me resaca, i can't talk straight the day after

but i guess if you partying hard is san jose de ocoa you could always have a nice hot sopa de pecao con coco in the morning para la resaca.

you see, trinitario, you get resaca not from the brand of rum you drank, but the amount. but in ocoa, the air is so pure and clean, the resaca goes away with a little fish soup. then you are ready for a ride on one of Don Pepe's old mules. it does not get better, my friend.

dude my grand mother was (god bless the soul) from ocoa when i was little i use to go every summer vacation and there is one thing i will never forget about san jose de Ocoa my brother
that sweet gentle morning breeze coming from the sea, i used to wake up early in the morning for the low tides just to chase jaibas all over the beach.
i haven't return to Ocoa since i was 12 I'm 35 now , so i know is not the same place

trinitario, i have some friends there, and my first time there was in 1989. i have never breathed air so clean , fresh, and pure. the veggies were the best, and the river was so refreshing. hey, who cares about having to use latrinas, or sleeping with mosquito nets. that is God's country. and the people; those are the true children of God!!!

dreadlocks:
we do have something in common, I love San Jose de Ocoa!
I was by there the other day claiming some land my dad left me in "la meseta de juanicho" and was so thrilled by the pure air, peacefulness, and just beauty all around.
I had avocado's with rice, the best beans in the island and chivo and man I was in heaven!
I didn't taste the palo viejo because I am not much of a rum drinker, but I had some ice cold Presidente's.
BTW I saw some really gorgeous girls when I passed thorough town, really stunning.
God bless our beautiful country,
I forgot about the god damn bureaucrats, Haitian invaders, power shortages and all the shit.

san jose de ocoa will bring you close to God, my brothers. if there is heaven on earth, it is probably there. you keep the Benz and the BMW; just give me a way to earn a living there, and i am at peace with the world.

If the real problem is that not enough money is collected to pay for electricity, then maybe all domestic use of electricity should be paid in a different way, a way that ensures that everybody pays up. Increase the ITIBIS or create a specific tax to be paid when buying anything including food and services. That way you can collect the required funds and do away with the billing altogether. Businesses would still be billed for what they consume. This system would get everyone who is here legally or illegally because everyone here has to spend to live.

simple question, juansantodomingo; how come no other caribbean island has this problem? i am not sure about Haiti, but that would probably be attributed to economic problems. but places like Barbados, trinidad, and all the other west indian islands have electricity. what is with us here?

I believe many of the other islands also have problems but none of them are as large or as populated as we are. They also have stronger institutions and with their British heritage have more respect for their governments. This problem has been around this place for decades. The politicians don't care to solve it because it is a tool for them to steal money from all of us. They live in a different world from the rest of us protected from crime, poverty and the inconveniences and frustrations that we are forced to endure. Such is our reality and so we need to take a different approach towards solving this problem. If we can generate the funds as I've suggested, then we can at least begin to build this important infrastructure which is the lifeblood of a modern state. Without electricity were are doomed to live in the past. If everyone paid this proposed tax, our individual net cost for electricity would be lower. We can't wait a hundred years to weed out this mentality of stealing.

dread,

There goes the neighborhood!


"Written by: generoso, 4 Nov 2008 9:08 PM
From: United States
dreadlocks:
we do have something in common, I love San Jose de Ocoa!
I was by there the other day claiming some land my dad left me in "la meseta de juanicho" and was so thrilled by the pure air, peacefulness, and just beauty all around."


G,

Be careful, Ocoa has a lot of descents from Puerto Rican immigrants in that area, you may find a Dominico/Boricua lawyer that will Drink Your Milk Shake and keep your Tareitas!

To all,

Who have expressed support for my METRO "obsession!"

Thank you!

Believe me gang I take no pleasure in seening my people suffer, nor am I a told you so person. I was outraged when Leonel decided to embark on this project because it made no sense to me as a priority.

You see, although admittedly I have never seen him as the messiah or the genius others do, I expected a little better from him and from so many competent and capable friends I have in the PLD, but boy was I wrong. I too rationalized that he might do better in a second opportunity in 2004, what an anal opening I was!

So I fall into this category “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”

Shame on me!!!!!!!!!!!

sadly, josean, there are many Dominicans who suffer from what you call the "allante" mentality. they think that we will be New York in microcosm if we have a subway, and we will overshadow our caribbean neighbors, becoming the Monte Carlo of the caribbean. well, the sad reality is that when we embark on such scatterbrained projects, we, in reality, become the laughing stock , and objects of pity, of governments who make sane decisions. at a time when every modern government is re-thinking public transportation, and relegating subways to the trashbin of ideas, we come along and build one, much to the delight of know-nothings, who believe it will get us "respect". sadly, it will be a debacle