Dear Editor,
While it is true that most of us have run out of patience with the foolishness exhibited by too many of our politicians, I don't think we should allow this impatience to impede our better judgement. Specifically, I don't think that the calls being made by some for Minister Paulwell to resign are sound.
It is being imputed that Minister Paulwell's actions, in regards to the Office of Utilities Regulation's (OUR) selection of the preferred bidder for that major electricity project, amounts to incompetence and even corruption. I, however, think he should actually be commended.
Paulwell puts it best, while being interviewed on television recently, when he said that as a responsible minister, it was his duty to do all he can to get the cost of electricity as low as possible. If he could find a company that could provide electricity cheaper than the ones the OUR was considering, then he had a duty to let the OUR know. What's wrong with that?
If Minister Paulwell was being incompetent and corrupt in giving the OUR another company to consider that can provide electricity cheaper than the rest then I, as an electricity consumer who is struggling to pay these huge bills, would urge him to continue being incompetent and corrupt. It's a pity some of the other ministers don't venture into this kind of incompetence.
Also, I really don't understand these private sector leaders who boycotted the OUR's announcement of the preferred bidder. They keep demanding that the minister do something about the high cost of energy. Yet, at the same time, when he exerts some youthful exuberance and does something of worth they want to put his head on the chopping block. What up with them?
Anyway, for once, Paulwell's youthful exuberance may have actually done all of us a world of good for a change. There is no need for him to resign.
Michael A Dingwall
michael_a_dingwall@hotmail.com
We should commend Minister Paulwell
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While it is true that most of us have run out of patience with the foolishness exhibited by too many of our politicians, I don't think we should allow this impatience to impede our better judgement. Specifically, I don't think that the calls being made by some for Minister Paulwell to resign are sound.
It is being imputed that Minister Paulwell's actions, in regards to the Office of Utilities Regulation's (OUR) selection of the preferred bidder for that major electricity project, amounts to incompetence and even corruption. I, however, think he should actually be commended.
Paulwell puts it best, while being interviewed on television recently, when he said that as a responsible minister, it was his duty to do all he can to get the cost of electricity as low as possible. If he could find a company that could provide electricity cheaper than the ones the OUR was considering, then he had a duty to let the OUR know. What's wrong with that?
If Minister Paulwell was being incompetent and corrupt in giving the OUR another company to consider that can provide electricity cheaper than the rest then I, as an electricity consumer who is struggling to pay these huge bills, would urge him to continue being incompetent and corrupt. It's a pity some of the other ministers don't venture into this kind of incompetence.
Also, I really don't understand these private sector leaders who boycotted the OUR's announcement of the preferred bidder. They keep demanding that the minister do something about the high cost of energy. Yet, at the same time, when he exerts some youthful exuberance and does something of worth they want to put his head on the chopping block. What up with them?
Anyway, for once, Paulwell's youthful exuberance may have actually done all of us a world of good for a change. There is no need for him to resign.
Michael A Dingwall
michael_a_dingwall@hotmail.com
We should commend Minister Paulwell
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