skeldon_man posted:VishMahabir posted:skeldon_man posted:Does the author think purchasing land for more than a million each is getting the land for free? It's not a whole acre of land; it's a fraction of an acre.
Banna...you missing the BIG picture...its not the price of the land...its the nonsense these people did...and the barefaced neglect of the poor people (mainly their own supporters) that should get your goat....why do you knuckleheads continue to defend this nonsense?
During the Jagdeo, regime there were no unemployed sugar workers and too many poor people. Poor people then were lazy, people who did not want to put their shoulders to the wheel to earn a living. I see you defending the PNC.
Not everyone who express disagreements with others here are “defending the PNC”. That is a circular argument...
Most people don’t remember what the PNC did (not to excuse their dictatorial rule) but more than half of the population now under the age of 26 in Guyana remember what the PPP did for 23 years. Both parties have jumbles in their wardrobes.
I still want to know how Raj Singh qualified for a high paying job in Guyana while living in NJ....he was a fly by night carpetbagger, fleecing the population at a time the industry was dying. This was only possible because, Raj Singh, like some PPP members, believe that the PPP would remain in power forever. TELL HIM I SAID SO WHEN YOU SEE HIM NEXT.
You miss the point about the sugar workers. They may not have been unemployed but think about this...the PPP should have found ways to educate their children and prepare them for the next century....The PPP squandered this opportunity. They should have taken a page out of Lew Quan Yew of Singapore. Jagdeo was not such a visionary leader. Jagan must be crying like a river in his grave.
As a staunch Indo here, you of all people should condemn the PPP for not trying to create an educated class of Indos by pulling them out of the physical and mental plantations. When they closed down the industry in Trinidad, Indians were forced to develop industrial skills, leading to better paying jobs, and all this happen under Alan Afro Government. What has the PPP done for these people, except leave them to wallow in their own poverty....and some so stupid that they still see Jagdeo as a demiGod?