Any Economic Recovery Must Begin With Suffocating The Crime Monster…

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Whether the final count is 33 – 30 or 32 – 31 in favor of the Jamaica Labor Party when the final count becomes offi­cial Jamaica must still be gov­erned. Of course if you lis­ten to the prog­nos­ti­ca­tors and bot­tom feed­ing polit­i­cal hacks who con­trol the mega­phone in Jamaica one would think this not doable.
These are they whom have grown fat at the trough of PNP largess. Many would not know how to earn a hon­est liv­ing oth­er than the slop they devour as a result of that par­ty’s entrenched sys­tem of corruption.
One of the issues to be con­sid­ered going for­ward is how to get the over 50% of qual­i­fied elec­tors back to believ­ing in the process.
Much of this will not be real­ized overnight, but arguably will rest on the abil­i­ty of the new­ly elect­ed Administration to get it’s agen­da enacted.

WHY HAVE JAMAICANS GIVEN UP ON THE PROCESS?
In the Interest of clar­i­ty it’s impor­tant to rec­og­nize that despite low vot­er turnout those who vot­ed spoke elo­quent­ly about who they want to gov­ern the coun­try for the next five years.
As the seat count present­ly stand the JLP has a 32 – 31 lead over the PNP with one pre­vi­ous­ly declared going to a Magesterial recount. . On that alone the JLP would have picked up a whop­ping 11 seats, mov­ing its total from 21 to a ten­ta­tive 32.
That 11 seat swing was no easy task in light of the PNP’s rough­ly 20 seat gar­ri­son advantage.
Not only has the JLP won the seat count the par­ty also won the pop­u­lar vote albeit less than a per­cent­age point.

Now there are many who will say “wow Mike why do you need to point this out , you are gloating” ?
I want to address that whole notion right away. I nev­er liked PNP poli­cies that is no secret.
A cur­so­ry look at our coun­try is more than evi­dence to sup­port my revul­sion for the PNP’s ide­ol­o­gy. I believe the pover­ty and decay which has char­ac­ter­ized their reign is rea­son enough to eschew what they are selling.
The idea of ide­o­log­i­cal Socialism tak­ing a coun­try into the first world is an oxy­moron and a mas­sive con game.
I much rather a mar­ket dri­ven econ­o­my, a phi­los­o­phy which tack­les crime and cor­rup­tion , low­er tax­es, encour­age for­eign invest­ments, and adher­ence to the rule of law.

Those who say they don’t care about either par­ty are angry PNP sup­port­ers who are cry­ing in their orange-aid our coun­try will be fine while they moan and complain.
I sim­ply love Jamaica too much not to speak out about the decay and deca­dence which the PNP has rep­re­sent­ed for decades.
There are no suc­cess­ful Nations on this plan­et which has adopt­ed ide­o­log­i­cal social­ism as a polit­i­cal mod­el. I asked many of my friends who sup­port the People’s National Party to name me a sin­gle ide­o­log­i­cal social­ist coun­try which is a suc­cess I’m still await­ing their response.
Conversely, much of the pover­ty and social upheaval which plague parts of Africa, Southern and Latin American may be laid at the feet of Socialist ideology.
I am not opposed to the brand of social­ism which is prac­ticed by the  Liberal Party in Canada, or that which is prac­ticed in parts of Scandinavia. Simply put, the People’s National Party’s phi­los­o­phy is noth­ing close to that which is prac­ticed in these countries.

Eivind Kjørstad, of the web­site Quora​.com  in an Article asks How social­ist are Scandinavian coun­tries? : ” All coun­tries are a mix of social­ist and cap­i­tal­ist ideas. In fact I per­son­al­ly think that adher­ence to a sin­gle “pure” ide­ol­o­gy is a pret­ty good indi­ca­tor of evil. No good ever comes from believ­ing that a sin­gle tool is the cor­rect one to solve all prob­lems. The real world is diverse, and it’s wise to use a diverse set of tools to solve soci­ety’s prob­lems”.
The PNP would be well advised to con­sid­er this as it licks it’s wounds and pon­der the arro­gance which land­ed it into the role of Opposition.

Jamaicans spoke this elec­tion that they are tired of the old style pol­i­tics of anger , divi­sion and clenched fists. They opt­ed out of abra­sive Garrison style pol­i­tics which have kept them chained ide­o­log­i­cal­ly and eco­nom­i­cal­ly to promis­es of pros­per­i­ty just around the cor­ner which have time and again turned out to be only a mirage.
They opt­ed out of the sell-off of our nation­al trea­sures and turned their backs on sec­ond-class cit­i­zen­ship in their own country.
And yes they respond­ed to the promise of pros­per­i­ty , even though not total­ly con­vinced they chose to believe because it came from a dif­fer­ent source.
They grew tired of the same old song and dance. They were tired of being sick and tired and hun­gry most of all.

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The elec­tions are over, as Jamaicans we must all roll up our sleeves and begin the task of build­ing our nation. Whether we live on the Island or else­where our con­tri­bu­tion is critical.
The Jamaican dias­po­ra sent back 16 Billion dol­lars over the last decade alone. It is fair to say that with the mis­man­age­ment of the econ­o­my over the last three decades the Jamaican econ­o­my would have col­lapsed with­out that injec­tion of un-earned capital.
Many Jamaicans in the dias­po­ra are now watch­ing to see whether the new Administration has the balls to tack­le crime at it’s core by giv­ing the police the lat­i­tude and sup­port they need while ensur­ing the appro­pri­ate lev­el of over­sight are in place.
The key to the Nations imme­di­ate eco­nom­ic prob­lems is pri­vate sec­tor employ­ment. In order to encour­age pri­vate investors to come in crime must be under con­trol and pub­lic sec­tor cor­rup­tion and bureau­crat­ic incom­pe­tence must be a thing of the past.
More impor­tant­ly is the mul­ti­tude of retirees who are dying to return home with their sav­ings, social secu­ri­ty and pen­sion checks.
But their return is pred­i­cat­ed on crime being under control.
let’s see if the new JLP Administration under­stand how this recov­ery must be tackled.
JAMAICANS IN DIASPORA IN NO HURRY TO RETURN HOME