Monday, September 2, 2013

Getting St Lucia back on track

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Anonymous said...

House Niggers, Uncle Toms and yardfowls are working hard here for their paydays and political crumbs.

What most of us who do not have to take shit from known political idiots know is that, no khaki-coloured person has ever placed on the top of his agenda, wealth creation for the majority blacks in their societies. Chastanet would be an exception.

Unelected. Unemployable perhaps like so many of those persons in STEP, and desperately hell-bent on getting a similarly political job, desperate people do desperate things. Egging on others to engage in despicable behavior in order to secure their pensionable job? They would stoop that low. They are not called politicians for nothing.

After all, in Saint Lucia, are not political hacks in the friggin business of praising complete idiots for doing shit in and with their given ministries?

And won't they do just about anything to get their political crumbs and contracts, like causing a public nuisance and fracas on a bridge?

Besides, without proper and normal standards of decent behaviour as points of reference, should we expect much more from today's House Niggers, Uncle Toms and yardfowls, when they have learnt their standards from the remnants of low-class rough-necks sent from overseas by absentee landlords?

After all, was it all that long ago that many of their parents were eking out a friggin hand-to-mouth living on the outskirts of 'terre la Ko-Panie'? And is this not that the same god damn thing they want to continue as they scramble for their share, because the economy is in the toilet?

September 2, 2013 at 6:17 PM
Anonymous said...

The insertion of the word "back" presupposes that Saint Lucia was "on track" to something "good", I suppose. If this is the thinking of the scribe of this missive, then, the thinking could not be anything other than very shallow and risibly simplistic.

Saint Lucia, as an incentive to stop being a burden on the British taxpayer, was promised a road plus a guaranteed market for its bananas when tricked into the phony independence given.

We had years of economic dependence on the preferential treatment of our bananas, without any leadership concern for transforming the economy away from this myopic mono-crop agricultural economic growth model.

Saint Lucia joined the WTO.

Geest Industries fully comprehending the full implications and ramifications of this for the world market, pulled out of Saint Lucia. That signaled the beginning of the end for any viability of the local banana fruit reaping industry.

Where ignorance is bliss ....

Saint Lucia continued on its own little merry way, ignoring the external and global trading environment.

American companies meanwhile had created their backward linkages with their farms in Latin America. Soon after, they were making representation to the WTO for the elimination of the independence "gift" and incentive, the preferential arrangement for bananas.

LSE credentialed Compton could not read the tea leaves. He was unqualified to do so.

He did not have the necessary business acumen, nor any appreciation or comprehension of the importance of diversifying business risk or exposure in the face of uncertainty.

Besides, an escalation of commitment because of vested interest related to his own farms, the banana industry perished. Saint Lucia was out on a limb. In other words, Saint Lucia was never on track to anything, without economic diversification. It never happened.

It is not on the cards with incumbent PM, nor with any of the several hot-air blowing aspirants to that position.

Compton's idea of the use of technology never amounted to anything other than to have Saint Lucians master the technological breakthroughs of the four-nail cutlass, the garden hoe, and the agricultural shovel.

That was his vision and version of what he once claimed was his goal of making Saint Lucia the Taiwan of the Caribbean. LOL!

One has to ask that simple-minded writer of this missive in the newspaper, is that what Saint Lucia should be tracking back to?

September 4, 2013 at 4:33 PM
Anonymous said...

With fighting each other dont help to lower our financial dept,but thats what we actually should concentrate on.
One blogger suggested introduce a "luxury tax" to lower the VAT.The idea isnt bad,because on existing long term contract you cant change the conditions, BUT YOU CAN INTRODUCE A LUXURY TAX. And if you tax this with 70% above a income of 7000.- incl.benefits and allowances) the person still not suffering.
The same can be done on office rentals where the price per SQFT is above 3,00EC (see former ministers office at Rodney Bay Mall with ~100.-EC/sqft).

September 5, 2013 at 12:04 PM

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