Dreadlocks mi son its the Spanish Antilles ....you love it but you are on the wrong island mi son.....you love the lifestyle but you cant change it ....why would you want to

Obama has also promised that "we will get 1 million 150-mile-per-gallon plug-in hybrids on our roads within six years." What a tranquilizing verb "get" is. This senator, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, is going to get a huge, complex industry to produce, and is going to get a million consumers to buy, these cars. How? Almost certainly by federal financial incentives for both — billions of dollars of tax subsidies for automakers and billions more to bribe customers to buy cars they otherwise would spurn............... There never is a shortage of nonsensical political rhetoric, but really: Has there ever been solemn silliness comparable to today's politicians tarting up their agendas as things designed for, and necessary to, "saving the planet," and promising edicts to "require" entire industries to reorder themselves?


In 1996, Bob Dole, citing the Clinton campaign's scabrous fundraising, exclaimed: "Where's the outrage?" In this year's campaign, soggy with environmental messianism, deranged self-importance and delusional economics, the question is: Where is the derisive laughter?

goulet our government has done crazier things than that...for example put men on the moon with little rational expectation of a profitable outcome, other than feeling as smart as the Russians. Government promoting new technology is nothing new, and as with the space race a 'green race' can spin off all manner of positive outcomes & tech even if it falls short of that particular goal. Let's not pretend various industries and firms are not subsidized already in our society...let's at least try to do it in a focused way in pursuit of a worthy goal.

other than feeling as smart as the russians ....you OBVIOUSLY were not there at the time and I am never sure which is your country ....as you are not old enough to have ever have made a sacrifice for either the DR or the USA especially the USA which you enjoy putting down so much ...from an elitist position of one generation away from having stood in line at the embassy like the rest...you would have a little more respect if you came here from eastern Europe and escaped a real Totalitarian existence....Profit is not the only reason people do things ....Were you alive when Armstrong walked on the moon ?...I am an immigrant to this country that you and Lautaro and Ladrone and Dread blame for the problems of the world and sorry I dont feel that way

That comment is so blantantly Racist and ignorant it defies Logic.

I'll ask you this.

What have Dominicans in the for America besides suck on the teet of the welfare system?

1. Cubans think they own Miami, Dade County, Florida, Jer-see City, Union City. What genius?
You give them an inch they take a mile. Remember, you're refugees; Not immigrants!
They did you an imense service, they could have let Fidel feed you 1 egg and one pound of rice a weeek, instead. But, not you, you like Jamon! Ham, swine eating refugee!
2. Cubans are the most racist people in the Caribbean; and they come out of Cuba with just the clothes on their backs, and they want to run the same racist games they did in Havana. Talking 'bout: "My parents are from the Canary Islands, or from Galicia, and when I was small I used to play with pearl necklaces", etc.
3. At least Dominicans didn't have a wave of 230, 000 degenerate's, mongoloids, and con men, flood the U.S. at the invitation of Jimmy Carter; Who at least 1/4 of those wound up in jails and mental institutions (trying to get SSI) within weeks of arriving on 'free' soil.

Dominicans come to the U.S. to work, Monina. Maybe, the marimberos, or 'los niches' that give you the fresh haircuts, that you know on 17th AVE. in Allapattah, live off the teets you refer to.
Most DRs are not like your seed, that come here to get rich by doing the least amount of work, just talk a good game: Your kin folks are infamous for doing it all! I had this, I had that in Cuba! What are you doing in Hialeah, then? Go back to the palm tree paradise that exists only in your dreams. Or, fight for its freedom. Just don't just sit there and get fat.....Eating that pig meat you relish!

And lastly, stop perpetrating trying to know what's best for Quisqueya, and it's citizens.

First remember Maximo Gomez the old Dominicano, who your superior forebearers (even though white like them) considered inferior to them; And to this day they only hype, Marti, and 'El Titan' (by the way his Mom was a Dominican FYI) de Bronce. They forgot who taught and led them with the "Carga a Machete" for the freedom of an ungrateful nation.
Your contempt for our proud people is known by most with at least an elementary education. Asi que, callese, Gusano-Cubano, y largese de aqui 'pa Siboney-Today.....Que te parece nague?

You are both Nuts Tonyc what are you talking about Dread is not Dominican and Dominican accomplishments are to numerous to mention...and dread so are Cuban and Boricua accomplishments to numerous to mention ...more numerous than the stars on the Spanish Main

That was my point.

GC not sure where you have seen me put down the US, and it sounds like you misread my comment's intent. I think the space program was a great thing whatever the motivation. I mentioned the moon landing precisely as an example of state-capitalism working towards a goal for a reason divorced from profit. Maybe you can share what other goals you perceived when you lived through it but my point is this: market-based forces played little part there. I'm sure plenty cranks derided space-exploration in its time as a boondoggle. I personally think it was an outstanding and defining accomplishment. Now my generation has a chance to pursue our own seemingly impossible technological campaign in the form of an energy revolution. As I suggested in my comment, like the space program it is bound to throw off positive outcomes even if it falls short. And as for the man asking to lead us in such a campaign not having a 30 year resume I say that sometimes innovation calls for a visionary CEO and not another veteran manager. That's something we've learned often from our profit-driven competitive markets.


As for this stuff about lines at embassies and escaping second-world iron curtain totalitarianism I miss the relevance. I aim to call things as I see them, and if it happens that in my judgment US governments have been on the wrong end of a stick there is no reason for me not to critique. No, I never had the misfortune to be asked to sacrifice for either nation if by that you mean delivering war to someone's doorstep. Yes maybe I do suffer the mixed blessing of elitism if by that you mean I don't speak from a level beneath my own. By comparison to the THIRD world conditions my parents came here from I've been brought far by the efforts of my family, the church, and yes also my government. I may not exactly be an immigrant pulling myself up by my own bootstraps, but my mentality is one of the privileges of growing as a completely free son of the New World. Yes I was lucky enough to narrowly avoid locales and eras where I'd have suffered political or racial oppression. I'm totally grateful, and I owe it to all three to aim to be the free thinker they all moulded me to be.

Maybe

But then again it wouldn't be wise to make Apu from the QuikieMart the CEO of Microsoft either.