Imani Duncan Demands More For The Poor, Where Were Her Daddy And His Friends?

I saw this post on Facebook and I could not pass this one up. I am going to break a car­di­nal rule I have, which is to lim­it my com­ments on par­ty pol­i­tics and only to speak on top­i­cal issues as I see them.
Look, the coro­na virus has dis­rupt­ed all of our lives, and I know and share in the pain of those who are hav­ing a hard time find­ing the basics like food and clean drink­ing water.
In fact, it has been for that rea­son that I wrote an arti­cle just today speak­ing to those issues.
But when peo­ple talk about the poor and needy from the tip of their tongues as a means to gain polit­i­cal mileage or trac­tion, it infu­ri­ates me to no end.
When they demand that Government do the impos­si­ble with­out the req­ui­site resources, they are ask­ing for the myth­i­cal equiv­a­lent of spin­ning straw into gold, an impos­si­bil­i­ty.
Please lis­ten to Imani Duncan the daugh­ter of Donald Keith Duncan, who was born to priv­i­lege and we will dis­cuss afterwards.

I am at a loss as to where Government is sup­posed to get the resources to do these things when the PNP was in office for ²²¹⁄₂ years and did not move to reg­u­lar­ize the econ­o­my.
Twenty-two and one-half years and many of those infor­mal earn­ers could have been brought under some type of tax com­pli­ance umbrel­la which would have pro­vid­ed some degree of sol­ven­cy or fall­back reserve funds for the gov­ern­ment to resort to in times like these.
If you do not pay any tax­es, where is the mon­ey to come from to do the hand­ing out?
I am just as con­cerned as any­one else about the peo­ple who are liv­ing from one meal to the next, and let me has­ten to say, but for the grace of God, we would all be so liv­ing.
Nevertheless, the admin­is­tra­tion has been in office under four years, what more could this admin­is­tra­tion have done in the time it has been in office?

The hypocrisy of these pseu­do-com­mu­nists is not only galling, it is incom­pre­hen­si­bly iron­ic.
For the twen­ty-two and one-half years that the PNP had total con­trol of the coun­try, Jamaica under­went a trans­for­ma­tion­al neg­a­tive meta­mor­pho­sis from which it is still reel­ing. Add that change to the peri­od between 1972 to 1980 and a more trans­par­ent pic­ture emerges as to why Jamaica is where it is today, mired in pover­ty, crime and per­pet­u­al beg­ging.
If the People’s National Party was a busi­ness, it would have been defunct, gone bel­ly-up from the 1970s.
The com­bined admin­is­tra­tions of Michael Manley, Percival Patterson and Portia Simpson Miller of which Imani Duncan’s dad­dy Donald Keith Duncan was an inte­gral part, plun­dered the nation’s cof­fers, destroyed the pro­duc­tive sec­tor, destroyed tourism and the min­ing sec­tor, over­saw the dete­ri­o­ra­tion of the Island’s colo­nial infra­struc­ture and watched and cheered the destruc­tion of our val­ued Jamaican cul­ture, and the expan­sion of transna­tion­al crim­i­nal­i­ty, to the point many liv­ing in the dias­po­ra have unfor­tu­nate­ly sworn off return­ing to their Island home.

The shred­ding of our tra­di­tion­al and cul­tur­al norms, the destruc­tion of the Island’s busi­ness sec­tor, includ­ing the destruc­tion of the nation­al air­line through the padding of the staff with PNP cronies who nev­er did a days work. The destruc­tion of the nation­al Bus ser­vice through the same rack­et of padding the work­force with polit­i­cal hacks who received pay­ment for no work done. Awarding con­tracts to polit­i­cal hacks who nev­er did a day’s work in their lives.
After twen­ty-two & one-half years the PNP left Jamaica far worse than when they took over the coun­try from Edward Seaga in 1988.
How dare these lit­tle mis­in­formed, mise­d­u­cat­ed neo­phytes dare come to social media about poor peo­ple when they grew up fat from the slop at the feed­ing trough of hard-work­ing Jamaicans?

As a mem­ber of the PNP from as far back as Michael Manley’s days, what has DK Duncan done to alle­vi­ate the suf­fer­ing of the Island’s poor?
How dare his lit­tle enti­tled daugh­ter come to the peo­ple pre­tend­ing that she knows or under­stands their pain?
Caring is all about show­ing me what you have done, it has noth­ing to do with talk­ing when you are sit­ting on the side­lines.
Hopefully, the Jamaican peo­ple will be smart enough to dis­card your faux con­cern and see it for what it tru­ly is pan­der­ing to the fears and emo­tion­al pain in order to gain lever­age polit­i­cal­ly.
Shame on you, but you are seek­ing polit­i­cal office, you lot are shame­less narcissists.

Mike Beckles is a for­mer Jamaican police Detective cor­po­ral, busi­ness­man, researcher, and blog­ger. 
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