To Mr/Ms Vote Seller:

Dear Editor,

Dear vote sellers, take a good look at the person you’re selling your vote to and take a look good look of yourself. Where did he or she get the money from to buy your vote?

Is it from the tax that some of us pay or from the trillion that we and our children yet unborn owe the International Monetary Fund?

Those in power have the greater authority to help to change that mentality, but they know what you don’t know — that you will always be their slave forever.

Therefore, Mr and Ms Voter Seller, whatever you get from the highest bidder of the “eat ah food” money, I hope it will be enough to pay all your bills as long as you live, and what is left over will fix the roads, get water to your community, curtail criminal activity, fix the justice system, mend the police stations, get health, education and fix the problem with electricity.

And I am sure that you can identify other areas of governance that have been ignored over the many years.

Someone wrote some time ago that Jamaicans voters have the battered wife syndrome; always making excuses for the abusive husband and, like a drug addict, knowing the drug will destroy the user but always going back for more.

Joy Fraser

joyrosefraser@gmail.com