[Eh085zE7]

It's like Leonel said: "E Palante que vamos".

Isn't it something, Leonel comes back and the lights come along with him!
E palante que vamos!

didn't hippo move to san cristobal? maybe they will have lights all the time too now ... maybe he'll renovate and move into trujillo's casa.

[Ngwkgczx]

E PA LANTE QUE VAMO

[Dumpishchaism]

That phrase means this:

Dominicans will move forward or Progress will return.

Its actually hard to describe in English because literally, this is what it means:

Its forward that we are going.

[TeemFilla]

Aren't all the dignitaries leaving today? Looks like your life electricity wise will go back to normal...

[Dumpishchaism]

It's like Leonel said: "E Palante que vamos".

Isn't it something, Leonel comes back and the lights come along with him!

Aaah, the taste of what's to come! Sure beats that old guy, what was his name? Hippo or something? He he he, he's history and already forgotten in my mind, why? Because the years of prosperity are now coming in at full force.

Maybe this year we will still end with negative growth, but by next year we will be back into growth and in four years, we might even go back to our 1990s habit of being number one in growth in Latin America? It could happen, after all it has happened before with crisis similar to this one.

E palante que vamos!

[lLianneForbess]

so there is enough power to charge the batteries used by your inverter
i only ask because last time i was there my cousin was using the inverter but the batteries needed eight hours for them to be fully charged and the light never lasted that long so he had to go out and buy a new set of batteries.

in any case my brother-in-law told me that the light has been behaving better than a few weeks ago

No, not every time, there wasn't, but we have a planta.

[raspirator]

didn't hippo move to san cristobal? maybe they will have lights all the time too now ... maybe he'll renovate and move into trujillo's casa.

I would think the opposite! We didn't have electricity with hippo and I have a feeling that that's going to follow him wherever he goes... Hopefully he'll get to suffer a bit when his planta blows up from having to work too many hours a day!!

[PZXjoe]

Well, some of you sound overly optimistic about the "electricity problem". I want to be optimistic but one day of light for more than an hour does not mean the problem is over. As they say Rome wasn't built in a day...

[Ngwkgczx]

OK, thanks. Our fans "hum" when inverter is on, so we know when there is a blackout.

so there is enough power to charge the batteries used by your inverter
i only ask because last time i was there my cousin was using the inverter but the batteries needed eight hours for them to be fully charged and the light never lasted that long so he had to go out and buy a new set of batteries.

in any case my brother-in-law told me that the light has been behaving better than a few weeks ago

[gtyruzzel]

Please pardon, but just what does "Dominicanos E Palante que vamos" mean. I'm not a Spanish-speaking hillbilly like old HB.

Yes, I would have to agree with Robert, that little bit of additional electricity may have been squeezed out of the grid for the foreign dignataries that were still in S.D. today. Let's see what the rest of the month brings. But, being electricity starved for the past several weeks, I'm sure that even a few extra hours is enough to make one giddish.

[ireleda]

My Blackout Tracker tells me that we've 13 hours, you heard it right, 13 consecutive hours of electricity today. Over 23 in the whole day.

I just can't take this anymore. I am afraid my electrical devices are going to give out. I am not used to this. This is not the kind of service we expect. What do they think this is? Canada? We must do something!

[ireleda]

Forgive me, I HAVE to ask this. What is a Blackout Tracker? It isn't a husband who goes outside to check the street lights, is it?

Hehe. I call it that, it is simply a little digital clock connected to an outlet that does not get power from the inverter. No funky gadget.

The hubby is the Heavy Load Carrier/Grocery Shopper/TV Remote Holder.

[lLianneForbess]

OK, thanks. Our fans "hum" when inverter is on, so we know when there is a blackout.

[ireleda]

Here?

[kaiayout]

E' Palante que vamos!

[Carol]

My Blackout Tracker tells me that we've 13 hours, you heard it right, 13 consecutive hours of electricity today. Over 23 in the whole day.

I am not used to this. This is not the kind of service we expect. What do they think this is? Canada? We must do something!

Good one Pib Glad things are getting better. Gotta hand it to all of you, we thought the world had ended last year when some of us had a 24 hr blackout in Canada.

[Wckcvhsg]

It's like Leonel said: "E Palante que vamos".

Isn't it something, Leonel comes back and the lights come along with him!

Aaah, the taste of what's to come! Sure beats that old guy, what was his name? Hippo or something? He he he, he's history and already forgotten in my mind, why? Because the years of prosperity are now coming in at full force.

Maybe this year we will still end with negative growth, but by next year we will be back into growth and in four years, we might even go back to our 1990s habit of being number one in growth in Latin America? It could happen, after all it has happened before with crisis similar to this one.

E palante que vamos!

NalOws---

I will remind you of this post when things again go to sh**.

The basic problem, again, had to do with the manner in which the country was governed, the philosophy of the ruling party, and the evident complacency of the people who believed what Hippo was telling them without following up on his so-called 'progressive measures'.

Just hold this comment in front of your face forever---"When the people of any Democracy find that they can vote themselves a 'free lunch', that Democracy is doomed to failure".

Now, I don't know who made that comment, it's origin,in my mind, has been lost in antiquity but it has proven to be very accurate when describing what has happened here.

Remember this, no government can practice the art of socialism unless it has a very firm economic base from which to draw the necessary support for the 'social programs' it fosters.

A good example is the 'Social Security/Medicare' System in the USA. That /those programs are in serious financial disarray and require constant 'adjustments' to remain viable. For that situation to exist in a country as rich as the US is, in my mind, evidence of a faulty philosophy and/or faulty management. Our own legislators are at fault for expanding a program beyound the capability of the country to support. It will either fail, or the taxes to support it will become an untenable weight on the shoulders of the population.

The same applies to all ungoverned/mismanaged social programs. Politicians have opened a Pandora's Box solely to perpetuate their tenure in office without regard to the expenses imposed generally.

In other words, there is too much government and not enough production to support that government, in the long run.

When the above is applied to the DR (which is a very poor nation in comaparison to the US) the problems that exist for the paying out of such ambitious social programs become insurmountable and virtually impossible to support.

Texas Bill


Make sense???

Texas Bill

[TouccuraLar]

...what about the mosquitoes? How are they to thrive with fans going all night long!

[lLianneForbess]

Forgive me, I HAVE to ask this. What is a Blackout Tracker? It isn't a husband who goes outside to check the street lights, is it?

[Lkemybab]

Only those of you who have only lived here a short time think that this is anything new to the DR! It comes and goes.I remember things almost this bad during Leonels last term in office!Also worse cases of no Gasoline,or diesel,during one of Balaguers terms.I woulldn't sell your "Planta" or Inversor just yet! Cris Colon