Ok, Bruce did his job. Good.
As the minister of defense he would have committed political suicide if he wasn’t as up front in the hijacking as he was, what with the budget due to be read in parliament.
So for leading from the front, good job.
Vaz on the other hand, in his capacity as information minister was very disappointing, sounding very much like the english-challenged lout i believe him to be. When asked questions about the matter his difficulty in getting the information across was embarrassing.
However, I am sure that many thought he did a good job, and that is up to them.
BUT!
Neither of these two men were anywhere in the ‘field of fire’, and at no time was in any danger. So to call them ‘Heroes’ is quite a stretch.
The Observer will do anything to prop up the guvament’s image especially when they delivering more and more hardship on people.
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Bruce spoke to the nation ahead of Audley budget speech, to calm nerves and reason with the people about the further hardships they face.
Good.
Some credit his talk to the nation as a reason why there were no riots, others in the media credits a Jamaican populace with being more politically mature.
Maybe.
The ever-increasing courseness of Jamaicans seemed to have let this opportunity slide.
Good for them.
However, the last time that a Jamaican guvament tried to impose a gas tax and the people rioted, afterwards there was whispers everywhere that the riots were instigated by the then opposition, to disrupt the guvament’s plans for the country.
How true that is depends on which side of the fence you fall. If you are a PNP supporter then it is absolutely true. If you are a JLP supporter then it’s all lies. If you are sensible smaddy, you wouldn’t put any underhanded dutty scheming past either of the two parties.
Of course another take would be that PNP supporters are less violent than JLP supporters.
But what I beleive the real reason for the calm reaction to the budget is that we as a people have taken too many hits lately that we have been cowed into a near submissive mass.
We dread losing the little work we have because time hard so we wait on others to say something.
The high murder rate, has us keeping our heads down so as not to get it shot off. Besides we don’t want anybody to see we a protest , that may cost us our jobs or our lives or both.
We realize where acting up may lead to no job, no money to pay bills or to eat food.
The guvaments of Jamaica are nearly successful in eroding our free will.
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As of this writing the guvament has yet to give the full details on the newly taxable items, maybe they using the weekend to give themselves and us some breathing room.
Or they still making it up.
Maybe they feel that spreading it out would ease the shock. It probably has, but one could start to get the feeling that they don’t know what they are doing and are merely stretching things out to make it seem substantial.
The PSOJ is in love with Audley’s budget, how it’s fair and is necessary and good for this country. Maybe, but none of them has asked about the real impact it will have on the ever-growing ranks of the poor. Questions like:
What effect will the tax on gasolene have on the cost of food, which will also welcome new members into the group of products affected by GCT?
How will this affect the Jamaican worker whose pay has been frozen and therefore means that their spending power is significantly reduced.
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There are actually some who believe that teachers, in demanding their back-pay, are unreasonable in these hard economic times.
Let me tell you what is unreasonable, doing your work for an agreed amount, only to be shorted for a very long period of time, to now see taxation and cost of living flying up, to have been promised what is due to you, and now be told yuh can’t get it.
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Nex’ Time.
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