Dominican Republic Extremely High Prices
Don't let your travel agent give you the false information that the Dominican Republic is cheap. It is NOT TRUE! The prices are triple US prices for the basic necessities. Add insult to injury 85% of their people are poor!The problem began when the last president drove the dollar to 56 to 1. Prices skyrocketed.The elections rolled around and the voters sent President Mejia packing his bags. The new American raised president, Leonel Fernandez took on huge loans with the International Monetary Fund and he raised taxes American style to unbearable levels for their impoverished people.This immediately plummeted the dollar back down to 28 to 1.
After about 6 months the merchants lowered the prices on some items by approximately 10% and raised the prices on most items to a comparable price as if the dollar were at around 60 to 1. Everyone refuses to lower prices even though the peso revalued 50%! Prices continue to climb on everything. From
a Coca Cola to a new car.
What that means to tourism is certain failure. Their Zona Franca that depends on a lower labor forces is crumbling with the devaluation of the dollar verses their worthless over valued peso.The actual exchange rate is about 60 to 1, but the exchange rate is being falsely held down with Presidential hype, huge taxes and borrowed dollars.
So in other words when a tourist exchanges dollars at 28 to 1 he is loosing 50% right from the get go. There are many poor people who have money sent from relatives who work for dollars in the US. When theses poor people receive their dollars from abroad they are forced to trade them at a 50% loss. When they go to the grocery store to buy foods the prices are based at 60 to 1. Gasoline costs 103 pesos per gallon.
Divide that by 28 and that gives you a price of
$3.64 per gallon. Food and pharmaceuticals are so expensive that only the rich eat and have medicine available. The President lowered the dollar exchange rate but raised the prices. People are striking occasionally. Most people in the country are poor.
They have a wealthy class. I don't see how any rich person would want to live there with the mud roads and huge holes in the streets. And every where you look you see trash and poverty. Simply put their poor just don't eat.The only solution is to let the peso free fall to its actual price of 60 to 1. But that looks like it is not going to happen because of the 50 million dollars a month their American raised President borrows every month from the IMF and the overbearing taxes the government forces their poor to pay as opposed to eating.
There are plenty of IMF dollars in the street. Who knows where they are going other than in political pockets.Long live poverty in the Dominican Republic..
Bob KellyI am a retired insurance agent. I am divorced because my wife caught me playing around. One day I came home and found myself locked out of my own house with all my clothes sitting in boxes on the front steps. Bob Kellymrbkkelly@yahoo.comOpen Your Eyes People
People, people, people! Dear average ordinary citizens of this world. Open your eyes and look around, can't you see that we are destroying the planet under our feet and thus ultimately all life who live on it.I used to have one black spot that clouded my mind and ability to think clearly. It was about what existed at the end of our galaxy. Sort of what comes next, is there another galaxy and if so what is after that one? Now I have two blind spots, this new one being: how can life on earth continue to exist when all we do is destroy and pollute? With the supersonic development occurring in China, the rapid growth of India and with many eastern bloc countries rapid emergence the earth's resources are being stretched like an elastic band fastened to a runaway train. Humanity has always eaten delicately at what is around and abundant; oil, coal, minerals and trees endlessly bear the brunt of mans insatiable demand, but the process has been slow and more akin to granddad mouse at 200lb cheddar!...
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Aftermath of Katrina Expected to Increase Shoplifting
Terre Haute, IN (ContentDesk via ContentDesk Direct) September 15, 2005 ? According to Sensortags.com, as fuel prices and food prices soar from the aftermath of Katrina, so will the shoplifting statistics. Shoplifting has historically been higher during periods of inflation, natural disasters and during holidays. Money will be tight as gas prices soar, those with a fixed paycheck will feel the crunch. Many major retailers may see their customers turn to "off- price" or second hand stores to meet their families needs.U.S. Retailers lost $31 Billion to theft according to the 2002 Retail Security Survey by University of Florida criminologist Richard C.
Hollinger, Ph. D., which analyzed theft incidents from 118 of the largest U.S. retail chains.
A combination of employee theft, shoplifting, vendor fraud and administrative error costs United States retailers over $31 billion last year. Shoplifting was on the rise last year with...
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What Good and Bad Fat can do to Your Health
THE FAT TYPES AND THEIR EFFECTS
High consumption of fat or of the combination fat and carbohydrates causes obesity, heart disease and other health problems. However the different types of fat have very different effects on the health. Here is a survey of the different fat categories and their effects:
Mono-unsaturated fat - This type of fat prevents heart disease and circulatory disease in moderate amounts.
Omega-6-poly-unsaturated fat - This fat type prevents heart disease if you do not consume too much of it. However it causes inflammatory reactions. This type of reactions are benign when they are moderate and when they are provoked to fight disease.
But a constant high inflammatory response is dangerous, and can cause rheumatism, heart trouble and cancer. A very high consumption of this type of fat is therefore dangerous.
Omega-3-poly-unsaturated fat - This type of fat prevents heart disease and reduces inflammatory...
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New Discovery May Lead To More Effective Acne Treatments
Scientists Discover Genetic Make-up of Acne BacteriumScientists have long known that the bacterium Propionibacterium acnes (P. acnes) plays a leading role in the development of acne vulgaris, the scourge afflicting some 80% of teenagers and many adults as well. A normally harmless microbe that lives in the hair follicles of every person, P. acnes helps cause acne when the follicles become plugged with sebum, a natural oil produced by the body.Recently a team of German scientists, led by microbiologist Dr. Holger Brueggemann, mapped the genetic code of the P.
acnes microbe. They discovered that it has a circular chromosome with 2,333 genes, many of which had surprising destructive abilities. "We were astonished to see how many genes were involved in degrading the human tissue," said Dr. Brueggemann.For example, the researchers found that P. acnes contains enzymes similar to those in so-called "flesh-eating" bacteria that destroy human tissue.
It also has enzymes that break...
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Dominican Republic Extremely High Prices
Don't let your travel agent give you the false information that the Dominican Republic is cheap. It is NOT TRUE! The prices are triple US prices for the basic necessities. Add insult to injury 85% of their people are poor!The problem began when the last president drove the dollar to 56 to 1. Prices skyrocketed.The elections rolled around and the voters sent President Mejia packing his bags. The new American raised president, Leonel Fernandez took on huge loans with the International Monetary Fund and he raised taxes American style to unbearable levels for their impoverished people.This immediately plummeted the dollar back down to 28 to 1.
After about 6 months the merchants lowered the prices on some items by approximately 10% and raised the prices on most items to a comparable price as if the dollar were at around 60 to 1. Everyone refuses to lower prices even though the peso revalued 50%! Prices continue to climb on everything. From
a Coca Cola to a new car.
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Original oil paintings by Ohio artist Ron Anderson featured in the King Arts Complex art exhibit "African-American Artistry" in Columbus, Ohio.
(ContentDesk) May 29, 2004 -- Ron Anderson is an Ohio oil painter and an art educator. His original oil paintings are included in the currrent Art for Community Expression art exhibit at the King Arts Complex, 867 Mount Vernon Avenue in Columbus, Ohio.Ron is a commercial art instructor at the Columbus College of Art & Design. His art commmissions include an original painting commissioned for the Absolut Vodka's 3rd annual art collection and two portraits housed in the George Washington Williams Memorial room at the Ohio Statehouse. His paintings are displayed on his web site at http://www.ronandersonstudio.comThe exhibit is displayed in the Elijah Pierce Gallery and
is entitled "African-American Artistry". It is curated by Ron W.
Claxton, an assistant professor of art and art history at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio."African-American Artistry" opens with a reception on May 27, 2004 from 6:00-7:30...
Original oil paintings by Ohio artist Ron Anderson featured in the King Arts Complex art exhibit "African-American Artistry" in Columbus, Ohio.
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