…for the “Good Life”
As promised, your Eyewitness turned up in support of Labour (in capital!) on Monday. He listened to all the speeches to the labourers (lower case!) but he must confess he was struck speechless by the speech of Raphael Trotman. Trotman represented the President – and your Eyewitness was struck by the anomaly of the President being CONSTITUTIONALLY given an OFFICIAL representative – a PRIME Minister – and yet Nagamootoo was nowhere to be seen!
Your Eyewitness knows there’s the Nassau Codicil to the Cummingsburg Accord and all that …but you’d think they’d keep up the forms, no? After all, if there’s ANYONE in the PNC-led Government who looks like a member of the WORKING CLASS, it’s Nagamootoo!! And if there’s anyone who looks like he’s NOT a member of the working class, it’s Raphael Trotman.
Trotman has all the characteristics of the fellas who took Massa’s side back in the day. Fellas who looked like Nagamootoo!! Might’ve even suggested how many lashes of the cat-o-nine tails should be administered!! Anyhow, with workers facing the sharpest downturns in the economy since Burnham wreaked havoc back in the seventies, Trotman had the chutzpah to give this “assurance” to them:
“THE DISCOMFORT WE FEEL TODAY WILL GIVE WAY TO PLEASURE TOMORROW”!!! Can you believe this load of horse manure?? What the heck is this “WE” business?? What discomfort is Trotman feeling after his 50 per cent bump in salary, new duty-free SUV, housing, electricity, entertainment, telephone, and travel allowances?? Is he signalling he needs another bump up?? Jeez!! Can he EVER appreciate how the 1700 fired sugar workers are feeling with no jobs in sight?
Or 5000 more of them facing the axe? Or Government workers not getting their “substantial” raises?? And what will deliver the “pleasure” tomorrow?? What else??? Oil of course!!! Back in the day after “Old pirates, yes, they rob I; Sold I to the merchant ships,” the successors of the pirates also promised the slaves “pleasure tomorrow”. If they slaved like the slaves they were, behaved themselves (no rebellions, please!!) and “bear strain”, then they’d get their pleasure. In “heaven”.
Since no one had actually survived this “heaven” to report on it, the veracity of the assertion had to be taken with faith. Not to mention also with a handful of salt!! But Trotman was on a roll on Labour Day…and it was just too much for your Eyewitness.
He went home to the sound of Brother Bob crooning into his ears from his phone, and wished his fellow workers would hear:
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our mind.”
…on foreign currency
After cussing out the Private Sector for being “alarmists”, the Government had to concede they’ve had to step in to help with needed foreign currency. Did Jordan really think the economy could be run with smoke and mirrors? If he’d just stop bobbing and weaving and listen for a while he might just understand how this thing works.
If you want to buy something from abroad – “imports” Mr Jordan – you have to pay with that country’s currency – or in most instances – with US greenbacks, that’s now the unofficial world currency. And how do you get these foreign currencies or greenbacks? Simple: you sell stuff you produce to foreign countries – “exports” they’re called, Mr Jordan.
If, as your Eyewitness has pointed out, you’re not selling stuff cause the Government’s ineptitude caused the economy’s collapse. And only gold’s bringing in foreign currency – which all goes to the Government – then where the heck businesses will get foreign currency from excepting from the Government??
It ain’t rocket science, Mr Jordan!
…on Greenheart
After two years, the Government still has us holding strain on the ban on greenheart exports to the UK. Shouldn’t we have had a forestry team accompany Prezzie when he visited the Queen?
Greenheart exports for oil access!!
