Government loses credibility
In a column in today’s Hoy newspaper, Fabio Herrera-Minino comments that the government’s main strategists are concerned that their enormous investment in paid journalists for articles, commentaries, workshops, panels, etc. is not getting through to public opinion, which is getting more and more skeptical by the day about what the government does and says. He says that government officials’ luxurious and high-spending way of life contrasts with the image of austerity and frugality that the government should be projecting.
He writes that the government receives millions of pesos, takes on barrels of loans, has a hypertrophied number of employees with padded payrolls to include party members. “Government officials insist on believing they are the best of Dominicans, doing us all a favor by governing us,” he writes. “They are bothered if anyone opposes their measures, such as the tax reform that was disguised as a supposed indexing of fuel, [...]
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