Saturday, December 22, 2012

No formula for blood out of stone

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dear Disgruntled CSA Member:

It is time to grow up. St. Lucia gained Independence in 1979, over 33 years ago.

At that point we were left to the good governance of our leaders (political, business, legal, academic, civic) AND to the prudence, common sense, discipline of our people. It was not a one way street where we could continually blame 'de system' or our leadership. We have abysmally failed at both levels.

In those thirty three years since the civil service has become bloated, inefficient and a block on St. Lucia’s development. Most of our government’s recurrent expenditure goes to paying your salaries, running government and paying off interest on debt. We do not even pay off debt but just roll it over.

In those 33 years your leadership at the head of Ministries has been in cahoots with the elected politicians (particularly the SLP that you work for at Election time) to rape the Treasury every year to pay more and more people on the public payroll at increased salaries.

As civil servants you all were supposed to be the defensive line to protect the people’s money with the Audit Department and with a prudent use of funds in various Ministries. Instead we the people never get a proper report on what is happening with our money i.e. Rochamel, cost overruns, etc.

Wastage and possibly corruption is part and parcel of the process.

You in the civil service also watched Ministers borrow billions particularly under Kenny Anthony and Phillip Pierre then ‘turned a blind eye’ as it was recklessly spent.

We now live in a liberal environment that has crucified our black societies by insisting that we can suck freeness out of our societies because we are ‘victims’ and should be dependent on the State for our existence. So we fool ourselves by showing no discipline, borrowing recklessly, abandoning all the values that make society great and grow in a proper a manner.

So grow up. You were there supporting the reckless borrowing and your public service is inefficient. You could not expect it would continue indefinitely.

You are now MASSA. You are in control of your own destiny.

You cannot expect to live off of the peoples' taxes and borrowing in their name and then think that they cannot implement VAT to cover the cost of paying your salaries. Something has to give: VAT or your salaries.

Knowing our society you want both as we have seen and you do not care what the consequences will be.

All we do know is that all we St. Lucians get the stick – and we thought slavery was dead!

Bitter Days, Bitter Days !

December 23, 2012 at 3:57 AM
Anonymous said...

Dear Job-secured CSA Member:

The King administration gave up a lot of cash to the public servants. Now that recurrent expenditure cannot be met, it must come from somewhere. That means from the very persons who did benefit from the ill-advised large increases because the messenger does not understand economics, must pay up.

The VAT is the rod of correction for the little ones who will not learn nor pay any attention to what they are dealing with.

We all pay for the government and political mistakes, whether we are Flambeau or LABAR.

The government could not get IMF support without implementing the VAT. It did not matter how. So the VAT is only another tax aimed at generating revenue to skim off the excess given by King.

Suck it up!!!!!!

December 24, 2012 at 7:36 PM

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