John Gagain Jr in a file photo in Miches.
SANTO DOMINGO. - Dominican Republic advances toward reaching the United Nations Millenium Development Objectives, although the country must protect itself from what he calls "globalization’s dark side."
The director of the Presidential Commission on the Millenium’s Objectives and Sustainable Development (COPDES), John Gagain Jr, said the percentage of children aged 5 with low weight for their age has been reduced to less than half since 1991.
He said the country has one of the world’s highest student enrollment rates in schools, or 95 percent. "This shows that we’ve partially reached the Millenium Development Objective to lower hunger by half. Dominican Republic’s poorest need to consume more quality foods, like fruits and vegetales."
Gagain, speaking before students, teachers and guests during the graduation of the Saint George School, listed the Millenium Objectives’ goals, such as to reduce poverty and hunger by half, guarantee access to education for all, empower women, improve maternal health and prevent infant mortality, control HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, dengue, promote environmental sustainability, access to information technologies and communication.
To reach the Millenium’s Objectives, the official said more women should occupy public posts, and must represent 50 percent since "we have only 6 percent in the Senate; 19 percent in the Chamber of Deputies; only 11 percent are mayors and 26 percent are members of City councils."
Written by: Belial, 7 Jul 2008 4:09 PM
From: United States, Texas
"globalization’s dark side."
oooo
Is there a dark side? All sides of imperialism are dark.
This guy, John Gagain Jr, uses indicators that are most important to the people, the workers, and the poor -- indicators such as education, health care, nutrition, and housing.
Significantly, he poses a justice question on sexist imbalance in public office.
Bourgeois slime talks all the time about the rate of profit in this or that sector, or about the percentage of GDP that goes to foreign or imperialist debt, or various rates of a bourgeois and middle class consumption and similiar junk.
This guy, Gagain, he talks good about things that matter.
His method of exposition seems concrete but a little jumpy and spotty on the key indicators of health care and education where he evidently believes the DR shines, pointing to important gains.
He was vague and twilight zone of nutrition with nothing but happy talk.
He seems to have nothing to say about housing.
Written by: Jander, 7 Jul 2008 9:42 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Quotes against Communism
"Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: 'No man should have so much.' The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: 'All men should have as much.' "
–Phelps Adams
"Communism and fascism or Nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of personality that takes pleasure in being submerged in a mass movement and submitting to superior authority."
–James A. C. Brown
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Written by: Jander, 7 Jul 2008 9:46 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Communists are of two kinds only. Gadarene Swine whose wits have been taken from them so that they rush headlong down the slope to their own destruction, and ordinary voracious swine who, if you were standing in their sty, had a heart-attack and fell among them, would instantly set upon and devour you."
-Dennis Wheatley
"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."
–Frank Zappa
Written by: Jander, 7 Jul 2008 9:46 PM
From: Dominican Republic
After 7,000 biblical years — 6,000 years of restoration history plus the millennium, the time of completion — communism will fall in its 70th year. Here is the meaning of the year 1978. Communism, begun in 1917, could maintain itself approximately 60 years and reach its peak. So 1978 is the border line and afterward communism will decline; in the 70th year it will be altogether ruined. This is true. Therefore, now is the time for people who are studying communism to abandon it."
-Sun Myung Moon, The Way of Restoration, (April, 1972)
"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
Written by: Jander, 7 Jul 2008 9:47 PM
From: Dominican Republic
"COMMUNISM: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty."
-Rick Bayan, The Cynic's Dictionary
"Communism: Right idea, wrong species."
-Jermaine Evans
"In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement."
–George Orwell, Preface to Animal Farm
Written by: Jander, 7 Jul 2008 9:51 PM
From: Dominican Republic
There a taste of your own mediicine.
Quote:
Belial if you like I will teach how to be a Capitalist , I am really good at it..
"jander" July 7th 2008
Written by: Belial, 7 Jul 2008 11:10 PM
From: United States, Texas
Jander, thanks for compiling, with great industry, the opinions on socialism of every second-rate bourgeois intellectual who learned to copy false propaganda aimed at the Left from simple-minded encyclopedias available in most branch libraries.
Now, Jander, compile their opinions on baseball.
Written by: sangwong 
, 8 Jul 2008 3:28 PM
From: United States
Communism .. Capitalism .. hog wash .. nobody can attain either one of these extreme positions .. they both demand impossible commitments and sacrafices .. the illiterati often think countries like the US have achieved "capitalism" .. oh really? that's because most of these arm chair pundits have never lived in the US .. have never read anything on capitalism .. have never read anything on communism .. neither capitalism nor communism are truly possible .. a mix of the two is what we really see .. those that have tried pure communism or pure capitalism have failed dismally .. neither is tenable in the real world .. so most of us don't know what we are talking about here .. just being cantankerous .. baloney and hot air .. most of you don't know what you are talking about .. but it's OK because who cares ..
Written by: Belial, 8 Jul 2008 4:29 PM
From: United States, Texas
"neither capitalism nor communism are truly possible .. a mix of the two is what we really see .. those that have tried pure communism or pure capitalism have failed dismally ..."
oooo
OK, you argue, you're looking for something that's pure.
But you can't find something pure.
Therefore, you say, there's no something to look for.
But where did you get your bizarre presupposition that something has to be pure in order to be something?
Guess what?
Hitler is not pure evil, therefore, evil doesn't exist.
Bush is not pure GOP; therefore, goppishness doesn't exist.
In reality, pure is relative, not absolute, because things or something(s) are always a dialectical unity of opposites which by defintion eliminates any possibility of their purity.
Since pure isn't pure, something must be impure to be pure.
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Is there a dark side? All sides of imperialism are dark.
This guy, John Gagain Jr, uses indicators that are most important to the people, the workers, and the poor -- indicators such as education, health care, nutrition, and housing.
Significantly, he poses a justice question on sexist imbalance in public office.
Bourgeois slime talks all the time about the rate of profit in this or that sector, or about the percentage of GDP that goes to foreign or imperialist debt, or various rates of a bourgeois and middle class consumption and similiar junk.
This guy, Gagain, he talks good about things that matter.
His method of exposition seems concrete but a little jumpy and spotty on the key indicators of health care and education where he evidently believes the DR shines, pointing to important gains.
He was vague and twilight zone of nutrition with nothing but happy talk.
He seems to have nothing to say about housing.
"Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: 'No man should have so much.' The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: 'All men should have as much.' "
–Phelps Adams
"Communism and fascism or Nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of personality that takes pleasure in being submerged in a mass movement and submitting to superior authority."
–James A. C. Brown
""
-Dennis Wheatley
"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."
–Frank Zappa
-Sun Myung Moon, The Way of Restoration, (April, 1972)
"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
-Rick Bayan, The Cynic's Dictionary
"Communism: Right idea, wrong species."
-Jermaine Evans
"In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement."
–George Orwell, Preface to Animal Farm
Quote:
Belial if you like I will teach how to be a Capitalist , I am really good at it..
"jander" July 7th 2008
Now, Jander, compile their opinions on baseball.
oooo
OK, you argue, you're looking for something that's pure.
But you can't find something pure.
Therefore, you say, there's no something to look for.
But where did you get your bizarre presupposition that something has to be pure in order to be something?
Guess what?
Hitler is not pure evil, therefore, evil doesn't exist.
Bush is not pure GOP; therefore, goppishness doesn't exist.
In reality, pure is relative, not absolute, because things or something(s) are always a dialectical unity of opposites which by defintion eliminates any possibility of their purity.
Since pure isn't pure, something must be impure to be pure.