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SANTO DOMINGO. – Chamber of Deputies president Julio Cesar Valentin confirmed that the legislators increased their salary by 50,000 pesos effective in March, a rise he said was allocated in the 2006 budget.
He said the increase was sustained in funds the lower Chamber saved, in a process he defined as transparent.
Valentin said their salary was 116,175 pesos monthly, but it said that net the legislators only receive 113,000 after 43,000 pesos go to taxes; 16,000 pesos for the legislator fund and 2,000 pesos for laptops and health insurance. He said with the funds saved it increased the employees’ wages, bought paintings and built a parking lot, among others.
The lower Chamber chief said the increase was transparent and that he supports a general wage hike, but said it must come from an Executive Branch proposal. "The increase had to be in June last year, and I resisted; it had to be in December and we postponed it, but we had to do it, because the saving were there."
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Teflon Fernandez and the forty theives strikes again.
One doesn't solve problem of this nature and impact on the DR population by runing away from it and hiding in another country.
One stays and fights for a reasonable solution.
The solution I recommend is to return to the DR, take up the banner of reform, andfight fire with fire.
You might start with the Education Minister, Sra. German, and convince her to begin treating her job as it should be treated. That is, quit robbing it's coffers andbegin fighting for an equitable allocation of funds with which to hire qualified teachers, build adequate schools and equip them with with acceptable furnishings, ie., computers, laboratory equipment, chalk, blackboards, REAL TEXTBOOKS, and the like.
You area really taking the cowards way out by leaving, then writing your whining on these pages.
Reform takes REAL WORK, not just words.
TB