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Cypress
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Thanks Don and Hook. So we're talking about a welfare organization with a license
to steal and a free pass to get away with it.
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Roberto
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Don Jorge
Vadenberg, my attitude? I don't care about the whining gringos who don't hesitate to build mansions behind gates, drive big trucks and expensive
boats and complain about user fees. I do care the locals are being kept out of their own waters. I can leave the whining gringos behind but I feel
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Jorge, I'm guessing he's one of the whiners - so Van, how long have you been there and how much spanish do you speak?
[Edited on 2-24-2007 by Roberto]
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Don Alley
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Roberto
Jorge, I'm guessing he's one of the whiners - so Van, how long have you been there and how much spanish do you speak?
[Edited on 2-24-2007 by Roberto] |
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vandenberg
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Roberto,
Been here since the 80's. No gated mansion ( I wish ), 22ft old panga towed around by an 83 Suburban. Speak 3 languages,Spanish inadequate however.
Too old to get fluent I guess.
BTW who pulled your string?  
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aquaholic
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...the 80's ain't long to be on the ground in Baja...it's all in the frame of mind...
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Cypress
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Don Alley.Thanks for the information.
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flyfishinPam
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
Pam, don't overdo it. That Escondido ramp was put in by Fonatur when Escondido was being developed. The gringos, with their ever bigger boats and
4-wheel drive trucks, managed to wreck the ramp's pavement. Donations from Tripui residents, but also many gringos in town and Nopolo, raised enough
money to resurface the ramp. For a while there were no fees, then a small $ 5.00 one, and then, Fonatur smelling a cash cow, went to $13.00. Closing
that ramp doesn't make any sense to us of course, but the fact remains ,that it's owned by the government and they can actually do whatever they want
with it. And if anyone thinks that petitioning the Mexican government is going to have any kind of effect....well, I wish you all lots of luck, but
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Hi there, I think the pavement being wrecked over time was normal wear and tear. Isn't a ramp supoosed to be constructed to be used and maintained
afterward? It wasn't maintained so the truipui people reconstructed it. I thought it was balsy when it was being done but who can blame them? If i
had to use it all the time I'd be one of those fixing it too. Here in town we want to fix it but the powers that be won't let us. But isn't that all
part of the fun? The uncertainties here make life interesting and colorful. 
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Crusoe
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Pam .......Colorful is colorful.........But the bottom line is the local mexican fisherman is bieng excluded. That is backwards progress, it is not
fair.Or you may want to call it elitism.It is not right any more than it is fair. It is his living and birthright! Alan and Hook have called this
thread acurately. I have used the ramp dozens and dozens of times over the years and am sorry to see it get so expensive. I will boycott it. It should
be free for local mexican citizens and fishermen. 
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Dave
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Really?
| Quote: | Originally posted by Crusoe
It should be free for local Mexican citizens and fishermen.
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Why?
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Don Alley
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
| Quote: | Originally posted by Crusoe
It should be free for local Mexican citizens and fishermen.
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I'd like to see API build their cruise ship terminal and get the hell out of the Loreto marina and let the local people run it. Ideally the city could
fix the ramp and let it operate as an extension of the street. No need for a toll. The city and the local folks are pretty good at listening to folks
and responding, imo.
I don't want to see Loreto follow the trend in the US of using all the tax revenues for someone else's sacred cow, and charging user fees for any
activity not protected by a lobbying firm in national and state capitols.
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