Lo que dijo en el 2004!!

Here is an article I found on the NY times, going back to 2004...

OH MY GOD!!

On the very first paragraph he contradicts everything he has been doing on the last 4 years...

I DO NOT SENSE ANY AUSTERITY!!!

By SIMON ROMERO

Published: August 17, 2004

Leonel Fernández returned to the presidency of this nation after a four-year hiatus on Monday, bracing Dominicans for austerity measures needed to ease an economic crisis that has caused living standards to plummet during the past year.

Mr. Fernández, a lawyer and former university professor, said in a speech at a swearing-in ceremony that he would restrict spending by government agencies, preventing civil servants from using public funds to buy the imported sport utility vehicles that have become symbols here of skewed income distribution, rubbing up against the dilapidated motor scooters that fill the streets of this city.

He also said his administration would limit international phone calls by civil servants, among other cost-cutting measures intended to reduce a budget shortfall that has depleted resources to import fuel and generate electricity. In a jab against his predecessor, Hipólito Mejía, a populist businessman against whom Mr. Fernández won a landslide victory in May, he deplored the ''absence of seriousness in everything.''

Almost immediately, however, critics called on Mr. Fernández to provide greater specifics on his plans to reinvigorate a political system hobbled by corruption scandals associated with a series of bank failures last year. No one has been imprisoned for involvement in the scandals, which cost the government the equivalent of a fifth of gross domestic product in bailouts for depositors.

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