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Here's an idea: How about transforming STEP into a program that delivers long-term gains to recruits? Instead of arming them with simple cutlasses, why don't we undertake training in the art of landscaping in the first half of the program?
By the program's end, recruits--guided by predetermined conditions--could then agree to contribute in some measure towards the obtaining of individual weedwackers or lawnmowers at discounted prices. That way, the program is regenerative.
There could also be an agricultural/animal husbandry component to STEP. By the end of the program, they could be rewarded with some of their spoils and seedlings. This would make the program more sustainable. Think outside of the box.
Get observation/ideas, above.
Sorry.
Get=great...
STEP is going to be characterized as one of the worst legacies of the DKA years.
It is unimaginative, sterile, stupid, and wasteful.
SLP started the ball going on this pattern of misguided and wrongheaded waste of this island's scarce financial resources.
Most of all, it is not based on any firm economic principle. So much economic ignorance surrounds that programme.
The training component as suggested elsewhere would be an integral part of any such programme, if the designers were to apply real economic thinking rather than the superficial approach taken here.
The motivation too, appears to be rooted in politics rather than economics.
Shallow thinkers can talk till the cows come home about poverty reduction. However, what is most ridiculous is that governments are giving away the fish (money) instead of teaching the candidates of the programme how to fish (earn a stream of sustainable income).
Next, a crazy advisor must have provided simplistic justification that the escalation of commitment to this failing programme of injection of money to these candidates constitutes a major contribution to growth and even economic stimulus.
Perhaps, there was no or inadequate concern for such issues as the marginal propensity to save and the marginal propensity to consume. More importantly what these are in Saint Lucia and with respect to this target segment in the population.
That is NOT how you "prime the pump".
More than this is the failure to put any discernible mechanism in place to secure a multiplier from the government budgetary expenditures to the beneficiaries of what is essentially a transfer of wealth (if we are talking about poverty reduction).
Obviously, again this time around, the transfer of income to those in the programme from borrowings by government to fund this programme goes to imports.
In other words, the government is practicing basically flawed economics. It is borrowing to finance imports of consumer goods.
Fundamentally, governments should NOT borrow to finance consumption and worse, the consumption of imports.
With STEP and its retitled copy, governments are borrowing essentially to fund the profitability of overseas suppliers and supply companies.
There is absolutely NO evidence that the essentially borrowed funds are making even diminished second or third rounds of circulation in the economy.
STEP like its UWP equivalent, is one hell of a misguided exercise in economic ignorance and misguided government waste.
Oh dear, all dressed up for the pomp and ceremonies; meanwhile they are ready to fall and hurt themselves in the badly constructed pavements!!
Oh dear! LMAO!
The GG recited Kenny's thoughts.
So, Kenny has just stumbled upon vision!
Good for him and good for us.
But please sir, be careful not to hurt yourself with all this stumbling.
You see sir, I thought that vision is something one shows people that one has as leader, and not something as leader is merely called for others to have as such.
"The Saint Lucian dream", this is the key phrase in the speech,and a rear opportunity to get the people to open up about their aspirations; and as for the "identity"factor, we can start with our foods. And yes, there are many young bright St. Lucians living overseas who have a genuine interest in the future of their homeland.Get the missions on board!
We pay those people to tell us what they themselves are NOT doing and seemed clueless about how to get it done!
These people in high-office in St. Lucia must stop treating the citizens as if all of us are dumb and stupid.
I consider that speech an insult to our intelligence. At least those of us who can clearly recognize that these wretched folks are continuing to spit in our eyes and continue to call it rain.
I am just so pissed-off. It just stinks.
This entire speech is like the bottom-less pit. Ridiculous and stupid. And frankly, is not worth the paper it is written on, nor worth any comment. Because there is absolutely nothing worthwhile in there to analyze or to discuss. Were they trying to put the lady in an embarrassing position?
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This entire speech is like the bottom-less pit. Ridiculous and stupid. And frankly, is not worth the paper it is written on, nor worth any comment. Because there is absolutely nothing worthwhile in there to analyze or to discuss. Were they trying to put the lady in an embarrassing position?
April 26, 2013 at 6:34 PM
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No to the question asked.
The so-called "Throne Speech" is the ventriloquist prime minister speaking through an animated dummy.
In this case the GG is just reciting what the prime minister has written for her to say.
It is all part of our customary farcical political theatre for the entertainment of our largely neo-colonialist-minded, low-information processing population, especially the 60 percent functional illiterates.
Not all of us are dummies as most of the vote-getting retards so-called politicians think.
Arrogance and contempt are major problems in this country. And, judging by the comments on various topics on The Voice's blog, these problems extend far beyond local politics.
We refuse to entertain ideas that differ from our own. We insist on quoting philosophers and theorists whose policies and theories are no longer applicable in today's world. Why? Simply because we need to flaunt our "smarts".
We name-call, curse and hurl insults carelessly in our pursuits--not realizing that our contemptible tones often cloud the discussions and achieve little else but to cancel whatever salient truths we may have uncovered.
Our problems are not beyond our scope. It's not rocket science--you can't spend what you don't have. You don't need a PhD in Economics to figure out your expenditure should never exceed your revenue.
But we bury our heads in the sand and make our politicians lords of all they survey, rather than earnest servants of the public's interests. If they were indeed our "best brains," then we probably would not be facing our current debt position.
Thus far, I have seen nothing in this budget that points towards belt-tightening. (Only the Tourism Minister was able to indicate reductions in operational expenses.) In fact, it appears that the PM may only be banking on the impending retirement of some public officers to cut costs. Replacements for these vacant posts will be seldom. Nothing else indicated belt-tightening.
There is a role for everyone in the process of governance. Be vigilant and demand better of your representatives. Why be intimidated by people whose Master's degrees have not taught them that the phrase is "quote ... end quote" (not unquote), or that eligible and illegible are words with completely different meanings?
We are all ignorant to some extent.
An innate understanding of the management of deficit financing does not come easily to those who have made a studied avoidance of mathematics a characteristic of the secondary schools years.
Nor for that matter, does deficit financing knowledge and MANAGEMENT become any more understandable to you simply by reading speeches written for you by those who too may just have a smattering of knowledge of that area of public finance economics and administration.
When all of sudden greatness and responsibility are thrusted upon individuals in the public arena, without having the tools the egregious blunders will continue to stream.
It becomes too obvious that those people are simply going through the motions.
In leadership circles, what's in you comes out of you.
If there is a lot of nothing in you regarding a required area of performance and expertise, so much more of that becomes observable behavior, that it makes those bearing the brunt of associated foolishness and of course, inevitable blunders, seethe with anger.
Leadership does not make calls for vision.
Leaders, by their various CONSISTENT behaviours show and demonstrate CONVINCINGLY that they have vision.
Calls for vision is full of just EMPTY rhetoric, and not behavior to be followed or emulated.
If the leadership packages its messages and behaviours well, there is no need for coercion, and no need for force.
Followers gravitate towards such people, and are persuaded to easily and happily follow.
They even drink the "KooL Aid".
There is a recurring and absolute dearth of leadership and leadership skills in Saint Lucia's population base.
And this is evidenced by the kinds of bleating, comical and disgusting characters that make it to the top of the political parties.
The presence of education credentials has never been a substitute for leadership. This bears repetition.
Neither is there any chance that the absence of those credentials will ever become an indicator that there is potential for it.
Credentials SUGGEST potential for leadership, and NOT the evidence of it. This too bears repetition.
Debt is GOOD! Ask America. What is needed is debt management.
Debt is good when you have the ability to repay within an allotted time period. Repaying debt with more debt creates an untenable situation.
The blogger above referenced the US; perhaps a poor example since there are automatic instruments in place to limit spending and initiate budget cuts. Many speculate that their prolonged period of contraction is merely a power play. By weakening its dollar, debt repayments to China become less valuable.
We do not have the luxury of being in such a position.
A National Vision Commission??? UTTER NONSENSE. Was she drunk? Why doesn't this woman stop living off tax payers hard earned money and find herself a REAL and PROPER JOB
Was she blindfolded when she was reading this industrial grade crap?
It has been said that when some people lose their way instead of taking stock, they double down and redouble their efforts. The captains of this society are hopelessly clueless about how to proceed in the face of financial disaster.
Governor, please go tell the PM to get a very firm understanding of what vision really means, and ask him to show real evidence afterwards that he has real vision.
Look it seems like he has next to no vision. If the PM changes his glasses or his eye doctor, do you think it might help to improve his vision?
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