I am somewhat amazed by the Sunday Observer editorial of November 22 edition which asks the question: If Jamaicans are so special, why are Jamaicans at home so poor?
I say amazed because I have written about the main and always underlying reason for almost everything that's wrong with our country:
"... yet it seems to me that to this point, I have not heard anyone put forward the simple but true answer that has caused and continues to cause our dilemma, which is very simply (and always has been) the next election.
"What have the PNP and the JLP been consumed with since 1962? Winning the next election. And the day after each election, the party that wins, begins to try and make sure it wins again. And the loser begins to work to be successful the next time...
"In the meantime, our country limps from crisis to crisis and deeper into the economic abyss."
Where in all of the foregoing would there be any appetite or time to create any kind of policy environment? Still wondering why we are so poor?
Stephen Harrison
St Mary
stepharrison28@gmail.com
We are why we're poor
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I say amazed because I have written about the main and always underlying reason for almost everything that's wrong with our country:
"... yet it seems to me that to this point, I have not heard anyone put forward the simple but true answer that has caused and continues to cause our dilemma, which is very simply (and always has been) the next election.
"What have the PNP and the JLP been consumed with since 1962? Winning the next election. And the day after each election, the party that wins, begins to try and make sure it wins again. And the loser begins to work to be successful the next time...
"In the meantime, our country limps from crisis to crisis and deeper into the economic abyss."
Where in all of the foregoing would there be any appetite or time to create any kind of policy environment? Still wondering why we are so poor?
Stephen Harrison
St Mary
stepharrison28@gmail.com
We are why we're poor
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