Dear Editor,
Even though I think I am old enough to know that a lot of these promises that are coming from both the People’s National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) are just talk, I must say that the JLP is doing a much better job at amusing people like me. I have been getting a lot of laughs from that party in recent times.
The PNP has promised to create 100,000 new jobs during the next five years if it wins the upcoming election. Now, with an economy that is virtually stagnant, this pie-in-the-sky promise isn’t really fooling anybody. Anyway, the JLP is busy telling us that that promise is a joke. However, the bigger joke is that the same JLP is promising to create 250,000 new jobs over the same period. I wonder if the JLP doesn’t yet see that its plan is the bigger joke.
While the JLP is dying with laughter, apparently after reading the latest PNP manifesto, they are busy telling us that the plans that that manifesto have are far too expensive, as we don’t have the economic base to pay for them. Yet, this is the same party that is planning to give up a lot of taxes by changing the income tax-free threshold, doubling the minimum wage, eliminating school fees, and doubling the police force, among other things. Doesn’t the JLP realise by now that we are all dying of laughter at their plans, which are even more unaffordable?
Finally, the JLP is busy going all over the place telling us that we are much worse off during the PNP’s time in office. Of course, there might be much truth to this. However, those who support the PNP can point to at least one example where that JLP’s claim is a joke. Those supporting the PNP must be laughing whenever they hear the JLP leader talk about all of us suffering under the PNP, when he himself seems to have done so well.
I am no politician or anything resembling a political strategist; however, if the JLP’s planning to win the upcoming the election by giving us all a good bellyful of laughs, it is working.
Michael A Dingwall
michael_a_dingwall@hotmail.com
Even though I think I am old enough to know that a lot of these promises that are coming from both the People’s National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) are just talk, I must say that the JLP is doing a much better job at amusing people like me. I have been getting a lot of laughs from that party in recent times.
The PNP has promised to create 100,000 new jobs during the next five years if it wins the upcoming election. Now, with an economy that is virtually stagnant, this pie-in-the-sky promise isn’t really fooling anybody. Anyway, the JLP is busy telling us that that promise is a joke. However, the bigger joke is that the same JLP is promising to create 250,000 new jobs over the same period. I wonder if the JLP doesn’t yet see that its plan is the bigger joke.
While the JLP is dying with laughter, apparently after reading the latest PNP manifesto, they are busy telling us that the plans that that manifesto have are far too expensive, as we don’t have the economic base to pay for them. Yet, this is the same party that is planning to give up a lot of taxes by changing the income tax-free threshold, doubling the minimum wage, eliminating school fees, and doubling the police force, among other things. Doesn’t the JLP realise by now that we are all dying of laughter at their plans, which are even more unaffordable?
Finally, the JLP is busy going all over the place telling us that we are much worse off during the PNP’s time in office. Of course, there might be much truth to this. However, those who support the PNP can point to at least one example where that JLP’s claim is a joke. Those supporting the PNP must be laughing whenever they hear the JLP leader talk about all of us suffering under the PNP, when he himself seems to have done so well.
I am no politician or anything resembling a political strategist; however, if the JLP’s planning to win the upcoming the election by giving us all a good bellyful of laughs, it is working.
Michael A Dingwall
michael_a_dingwall@hotmail.com