Friday, May 18, 2012

The Budget, Policy, Reform and Forgetfulness

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hell man! Did you ever read the darn British Constitutions and Conventions of the constitutions?

Then jackass, did you know of the recognition of the conventions and the Standing Orders within that framework?

Under which rock did you just creep from to shoot this amount of bull like a semi-literate?

My gosh! What an ass!

The Estimates debate should always be based on the previous FIVE years of estimates of expenditure under various different heads. Because our wet-behind-the-ears politicians and hot-air parliamentarians have absolutely no experience with accountability like you are showing now, this does not reduce the significance of this debate.

Armed with this amount of accurate 5-year data, the previous four yeas of forecast and actual data, with this fiscal year's forecasts which is the basis for this year's budget, the man in the street should be able to see for himself the histories of expenditure on projects, ministries, agencies, both in the previous projected and actual figures.

That is what all mature parliaments do in parliamentary systems like ours.

The revenues collected under various taxes and levies for the same period each financial year, also have a story to tell

Then the man in the street can make a very personal judgement as to whether the public historically was, or is with the current estimates getting its money's worth for the revenues collected and the expenditures undertaken in the past and going into the future.

What an awful lot of ignorant and semi-literates we have swaggering around pretending to know how to manage this country!

Process my tail.

There is a huge difference between a budget process or system like line item budgeting, and a requirement to debate the estimates of revenue and expenditure that forms or informs the budget presentation or document. Get this through your thick skull. They are not one and the same! Get an education.

Your ignorance is abysmal!

You are god damn well misleading people. Perhaps, you are too dumb to notice this also.

You don't know one flipping thing about what should happen with and during an Estimates debate. Do you? Man, you should just shut up! Joker!

May 19, 2012 at 9:22 AM
Anonymous said...

Ditto, above.

A whole lot of semi-literate jackasses posing as informed individuals, spewing thier innuendoes and blatant ignorance as gospel truth to gullible St Lucia.

As you alluded; and I repeat, "my gosh, what an ass", yes, an ass indeed - a thorough, complete and disgusting ass! I suggest this ass sticks to the simple things his mind can understand and decipher.

May 19, 2012 at 10:34 AM

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