Santo Domingo.– Former Dominican president Hipólito
Mejía described as disappointing, contradictory and ridicule the speech by
president Leonel Fernandez in his annual appearance before Congress to present his experiences and memories.
According
to Mejía, the president spoke as if he was addressing the people for the first
time, instead of rendering accounts on his management during 2008. "It's
disappointing because he did not give concrete answers to huge problems affecting
the population today, such as delinquency, unemployment, corruption, drug
trafficking and lack of money circulating," he pointed out.
"He did not contribute anything new, it was a repetition of
the same rhetorical on the world financial and local crisis," the former head of state said.
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
I have to admit that the HIPPO is correct in his summation of Leonel's rhetorical utterings before the Legislative Body.
Nothing new, just the same ole crap uttered by a past master scammer.
TexasBill
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
they finally brought out the Gimp
Written by: underpar, 1 Mar 2009 2:02 PM
From: Dominican Republic
bronxgirl60,
Your description of Hipólito is perfect!
Josean nice Yankees Cap!
What did you do with Dreadlocks?
He must have went out back to roll one up!
Written by: belly51, 1 Mar 2009 2:18 PM
From: Dominican Republic, San Francisco y Houston,TX
Why is the PRD letting this guy speak did they just gave up on any future president.Do like republicans did to Bush, Shut him up for at least 15 yrs then we will reconsider taking the duct tape of your mouth.
From: United States
To underpar:
Duly noted, thanks.
Written by: josean, 1 Mar 2009 3:49 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Guillermo Moreno Presidente 2012!
From: United States
Hippo is an illiterate.
Written by: generoso, 1 Mar 2009 6:42 PM
From: United States, Quisqueya
"It's disappointing because he did not give concrete answers to huge problems affecting the population today, such as delinquency, unemployment, corruption, drug trafficking and lack of money circulating,"
You were the disappointment and make a ridicule every time you open your trap.
Vacinilla head! Please put on your vacinilla hat and spare us looking at your ugly face!
Now I know what pleasure the terrorists feel when cutting off a person's head off if he resembled Hipoloco's actions.
From: United States, MD
It's so ironic how he's talking about himself and his hipocracy. Unlike Hipolito, Leonel has done things to better our country, even if they weren't enough.
From: United States
armpit, you really need psychiatric intervention. i am deathly serious. i did not even post in this topic, but you cannot help mentioning my name. that is not normal behavior. i am serious. for someone to take the time to fixate on people the way you fixate on me, suggests to me that your elevator does not stop at the upper floors. you really should volunteer yourself for a mental checkup. do it soon, before we get one more gruesome headline, depicting some lunatic opening fire on a group of partygoers. you are a time bomb, a disaster waiting to happen. you may think you are hilarious. i think you are a potential menace to life and limb.
Written by: antonio1, 1 Mar 2009 7:47 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Av Santa Rosa, La Romana
Guillermo Moreno Presidente 2012!
Isn't Narciso Isa Conde your candidate?
Written by: Username, 1 Mar 2009 7:52 PM
From: Dominican Republic
It was Leonel's banker buddies who destroyed the economy but Hippo was blamed and took the fall, the same bankers Leonel is now giving presidential pardons to.
Written by: MannyTav, 1 Mar 2009 10:37 PM
From: United States
Let me see, the best we could put out was Hippo, a dumb corrupt inept thief, and Fernandez, an educated, scheming, conniving corrupt thief..... if we keep cranking them out like this our future is bright.
From: Dominican Republic, Civil Rights and Peace Activist for Our Dominican People
Ja,ja,ja,ja, Cara de Mamon ja,ja y have not heard for a long time!!!
From: United States
Username, that is a sage observation. the fleecing of Baninter was taking place under Leonel's "watch", but since the final collapse occurred under Hippo, he took the fall.
Written by: josean, 2 Mar 2009 7:35 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
dread,
Would have it been better if Hipolitio had not made the depositors at Baninter whole and allowed a run on the other banks as Hoover did in '29 or like Georgie Bush in '09 with Lehman Brothers?
From: United States
that is a monster observation, josean. can you say CAPITAL FLIGHT? can you imagine what would have happened if all the holders of hot money decided that they better take it elsewhere , because there is no deposit insurance in the DR? maybe Hippo did the right thing, after all.
Written by: generoso, 2 Mar 2009 10:57 AM
From: United States, Quisqueya
dreadlocks
The remedial measures might have been the right thing to do if they would have been applied democratically. But many big and influential depositors got their money back quickly and even in US dollars while some had to wait for years to get the money back, and then the peso had depreciated so they still sustained a net loss.
Hipoloco's bad and sloppy handling of the banking crisis with his posturing just made it a lot worse and his damage control measures were comedic to say the least.
He oscillated between backing the failing banks with Banco central moneys, breaking all the internal rules and regulations, and carrying on a personal vendetta against Baninter's owners.
Written by: belly51, 2 Mar 2009 11:15 AM
From: Dominican Republic, San Francisco y Houston,TX
Written by: zak325, 2 Mar 2009 12:45 PM
From: United States
I said it before, Hippo is gonna stage a comeback. He'll say Baninter wasn't his fault and all the guilty have been caught, even if they got little or no jail time, it was Fernandez that let them go.
From: United States
zak, i agree with you, to a degree. i think he will let someone else run as the candidate, but will be the real force behind the performance. he may be down, but he is not out. know whose fault that is? i guess that you do! hint? his initials are LF.
From: United States, Yonkers, NY
Hipo talking about drug trafficking. He should know from experience.
Written by: generoso, 2 Mar 2009 7:27 PM
From: United States, Quisqueya
No one should underestimate the craftiness and wisdom of the Dominican nationals, even the
poorest campesino.
Anything possible can occur in politics, and voters usually have a short memory span, but Hipoloco
with all his blunders, his worse ones were the daily and constant put downs, critical and cynic remarks to the population, and his continuous daily verbal abuses against citizens that he thought were funny.
Dominicans can put up with lot's of abuse except disrespect.
We are a proud nation and Hipoloco disrespected us. We will never forgive him for that.
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
..."disappointing, contradictory and ridicule"...
These terms could not better define Hippo's personality.
..."he did not give concrete answers to huge problems affecting the population today, such as delinquency, unemployment, corruption, drug trafficking and lack of money circulating" ...
These terms apply to a T to Hippo's presidency.
From: United States
Politicians are the only animals that are not to be kicked while they're down.
From: United States
Just in case, I'm not a fan of Hipoloco!
From: United States
Trintario, you are ever so right. because, if they ever get up, the consequences could be dire!
From: United States
Dreadlocks,you've gotten my point.
Written by: generoso, 2 Mar 2009 8:59 PM
From: United States, Quisqueya
Trinitario809
You are so right, they should not be kicked at all. Rolled over with a tractor would be better!
Written by: , 3 Mar 2009 6:03 PM
From:
All of them (political parties) are the same Corrupt delinquent and more over, they are derespect the country. Todos son lacras........
Written by: josean, 3 Mar 2009 6:53 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Speaking of Lacras!
How about Lacars who make $10,000 dollars a month for nothing more than sitting on their posteriors!
Legislators fight over RD$50,000
It seems that the Congress doesn't get over one scandal before it enters another, and now the issue is the salary paid to the "honorable" legislators that is facing off senators and deputies for the difference of RD$50,000.
Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) legislator Euclides Sanchez is questioning the fact that deputies earn a higher salary than the senators. He ignored the "social fund" also known as the "little barrel" that these legislators handle and that reaches between RD$10 and RD$18 million a year for each senator.
Because of the difference in wage with the deputies, Sanchez urged Senate president Reinaldo Pared Perez to increase the salaries of the 32 senators with funds from the senate budget in order to bring the two salaries into line or for the Chamber of Deputies to reduce the salaries of its members.
Written by: josean, 3 Mar 2009 6:54 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Sanchez said, "This creates a problem, because we pay the same taxes and the pension of a deputy is higher than that of a senator. Or they reduce the salaries of the deputies or they increase those of the senators."
Meanwhile, spokesperson for the PLD deputies, Domingo Paez said that the legislators are grossly "overpaid", and because of this the discussion would be nonsense. "My personal position is that we should earn less. I believe that a legislator in the Dominican Republic is an ultra-privileged man. We are grossly privileged and in consequence it is not fit for us to be stuck in a public debate that argues if one earns more or one earns less," stated Paez. Actually, a senator earns a basic salary of RD$125,000 a month and a deputy close to RD$200,000 per month, plus multiple benefits that more than double their wages.
But both the senator and the deputy pay in 6% of their salaries to the pension fund.
Continued:
Written by: josean, 3 Mar 2009 6:55 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
The complaint from Sanchez is that upon retirement a deputy will receive a more generous pension than a senator. Since last March deputies have enjoyed a RD$58,491 pay increase. Now they each earn a basic salary of RD$175,000 per month. With "incentives" each deputy receives RD$342,568 monthly. Senators are paid a salary of RD$125,000 per month, plus "incentives", and they handle the money from the "little barrel" at their own discretion.
Source DR1
Written by: BLANCO, 4 Mar 2009 4:49 PM
From: Dominican Republic
does anybody still listen to this low life
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Nothing new, just the same ole crap uttered by a past master scammer.
TexasBill
Your description of Hipólito is perfect!
Josean nice Yankees Cap!
What did you do with Dreadlocks?
He must have went out back to roll one up!
Duly noted, thanks.
Hippo is an illiterate.
You were the disappointment and make a ridicule every time you open your trap.
Vacinilla head! Please put on your vacinilla hat and spare us looking at your ugly face!
Now I know what pleasure the terrorists feel when cutting off a person's head off if he resembled Hipoloco's actions.
Isn't Narciso Isa Conde your candidate?
DR is meddling in Haitians' business too much. DR has to stop that BS.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max....vering-a-usplanned-c_b_14750.html
Would have it been better if Hipolitio had not made the depositors at Baninter whole and allowed a run on the other banks as Hoover did in '29 or like Georgie Bush in '09 with Lehman Brothers?
The remedial measures might have been the right thing to do if they would have been applied democratically. But many big and influential depositors got their money back quickly and even in US dollars while some had to wait for years to get the money back, and then the peso had depreciated so they still sustained a net loss.
Hipoloco's bad and sloppy handling of the banking crisis with his posturing just made it a lot worse and his damage control measures were comedic to say the least.
He oscillated between backing the failing banks with Banco central moneys, breaking all the internal rules and regulations, and carrying on a personal vendetta against Baninter's owners.
http://images.wikia.com/uncyclope....ly_man_2.jpg/180px-Ugly_man_2.jpg
poorest campesino.
Anything possible can occur in politics, and voters usually have a short memory span, but Hipoloco
with all his blunders, his worse ones were the daily and constant put downs, critical and cynic remarks to the population, and his continuous daily verbal abuses against citizens that he thought were funny.
Dominicans can put up with lot's of abuse except disrespect.
We are a proud nation and Hipoloco disrespected us. We will never forgive him for that.
These terms could not better define Hippo's personality.
..."he did not give concrete answers to huge problems affecting the population today, such as delinquency, unemployment, corruption, drug trafficking and lack of money circulating" ...
These terms apply to a T to Hippo's presidency.
You are so right, they should not be kicked at all. Rolled over with a tractor would be better!
How about Lacars who make $10,000 dollars a month for nothing more than sitting on their posteriors!
Legislators fight over RD$50,000
It seems that the Congress doesn't get over one scandal before it enters another, and now the issue is the salary paid to the "honorable" legislators that is facing off senators and deputies for the difference of RD$50,000.
Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) legislator Euclides Sanchez is questioning the fact that deputies earn a higher salary than the senators. He ignored the "social fund" also known as the "little barrel" that these legislators handle and that reaches between RD$10 and RD$18 million a year for each senator.
Because of the difference in wage with the deputies, Sanchez urged Senate president Reinaldo Pared Perez to increase the salaries of the 32 senators with funds from the senate budget in order to bring the two salaries into line or for the Chamber of Deputies to reduce the salaries of its members.
Meanwhile, spokesperson for the PLD deputies, Domingo Paez said that the legislators are grossly "overpaid", and because of this the discussion would be nonsense. "My personal position is that we should earn less. I believe that a legislator in the Dominican Republic is an ultra-privileged man. We are grossly privileged and in consequence it is not fit for us to be stuck in a public debate that argues if one earns more or one earns less," stated Paez. Actually, a senator earns a basic salary of RD$125,000 a month and a deputy close to RD$200,000 per month, plus multiple benefits that more than double their wages.
But both the senator and the deputy pay in 6% of their salaries to the pension fund.
Continued:
Source DR1