Dear Editor,
President Obama has made scores of speeches since becoming the first African-American president, he rarely mentions the poor. Obama is from a country where people are poor today and rich tomorrow.
Jan Koum, one of the founders of WhatsApp, emerged from a family that relied on food stamps.
The majority of people strive to be part of the middle class by getting a university education. In foward-thinking societies political leaders don't fashion messages dwelling on the poor, it just doesn't fly.
Here in Jamaica our leaders have uniquely designed, fashioned and patented a message based on poverty and the poor. Most of us have swallowed it hook, line and sinker. They cater to our every need, skilfully feeding us and making us dependent on them. If we scratch their back, no matter how broad theirs are, they'll scratch ours.
But this sales pitch has kept us impoverished and facilitated the massive waste of taxpayers money while our leaders, across party lines, and their friends have done spectacularly well.
While the leaders make poor decisions about how they spend from the national purse the public sector workers have to hug up a wage freeze, teachers must hold strain, and the finance minister tells us that the cupboard is bare.
If our Government wants to waste taxpayers dollars at least quickly follow Colorado which will raise taxes revenue this year from medical and recreational marijuana from some US$571m profit. They are already planning to spend most of it on educating their people. What is our plan?
Mark Clarke
Siloah, St Elizabeth
mark_clarke9@yahoo.com
Stop the poverty message
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President Obama has made scores of speeches since becoming the first African-American president, he rarely mentions the poor. Obama is from a country where people are poor today and rich tomorrow.
Jan Koum, one of the founders of WhatsApp, emerged from a family that relied on food stamps.
The majority of people strive to be part of the middle class by getting a university education. In foward-thinking societies political leaders don't fashion messages dwelling on the poor, it just doesn't fly.
Here in Jamaica our leaders have uniquely designed, fashioned and patented a message based on poverty and the poor. Most of us have swallowed it hook, line and sinker. They cater to our every need, skilfully feeding us and making us dependent on them. If we scratch their back, no matter how broad theirs are, they'll scratch ours.
But this sales pitch has kept us impoverished and facilitated the massive waste of taxpayers money while our leaders, across party lines, and their friends have done spectacularly well.
While the leaders make poor decisions about how they spend from the national purse the public sector workers have to hug up a wage freeze, teachers must hold strain, and the finance minister tells us that the cupboard is bare.
If our Government wants to waste taxpayers dollars at least quickly follow Colorado which will raise taxes revenue this year from medical and recreational marijuana from some US$571m profit. They are already planning to spend most of it on educating their people. What is our plan?
Mark Clarke
Siloah, St Elizabeth
mark_clarke9@yahoo.com
Stop the poverty message
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