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Government using budget cuts to discriminate - AFC

 

May 14, 2012 | By | Filed Under News 

Source - kaieteur News


Alliance for Change member Gerrida Lowe has said that her party is well aware that the Government plans to send home certain workers using the reduction made to the 2012 budget as the excuse.  Lowe made these statements at a recent press conference that the party held. According to Lowe, instead  of ‘weeding out’ the cronies and ‘fat-cats’ from the system, the PPP/C Government is sacrificing ordinary cleaners and clerks and cutting the salaries of other rank and file employees to make a political point. She described the act as being devious.


Lowe explained that prior, during and after the 2012 Budget debate and especially during the examination of the Estimates, the AFC made it clear that they did not want to send ordinary workers home. She said that the party was targeting the ‘super-salary’ contract employees and the political dinosaurs that are paid as so-called, ‘advisors’.


She said that instead of the government sending off these political relics of the past, the Ramotar regime is turning ordinary workers into sacrificial lambs.  Lowe said that any attempt to secure supplementary appropriations without the reforms called for by the collective opposition must be seen as an attempt to secure the positions of the PPP/C government cronies.


“It is clear that this present PPP regime has no interest in carrying out the necessary reforms to make government and national institutions function more efficiently. It is clear that they intend to carry on with their wanton wastage and abuse of taxpayers’ money and national resources” Lowe posited.


Further, she told the media that the AFC has been informed that a circular has been passed around to the staff of GPL informing them of daily ‘black-outs’.  According to Lowe GPL has not even spent a third of its $5 billion allocation but they are already signalling daily power outages.  She said it was a vile attempt to fool the people into thinking that the cut to the GPL subsidy is the cause for the company not being able to provide electricity.


She described the move as an insult to the intelligence of the Guyanese people.  Further, she said that the government instead of trying to operate more efficiently and show that they can manage well, their decision is to punish the people.


She maintained that the Alliance For Change will over the course of the next few weeks be meeting with a number of locally and internationally based stakeholders, the international donor community and interest groups to update them on these situations.


“For almost two decades Guyanese have been at the mercy of the PPP/C, forced to accept whatever conditions are imposed upon them …. the Administration must realise that they cannot continue to punish the people of this country …. on November 28, 2011 the people voted to break the PPP yolk of tyranny and we will not be cowered” Lowe posited to the media.

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Ah naah dah mi bin seh lang time now.  Wah opposition gafa do is publish dem hi pay contraktas wuh budgit gatt cut an now weh dem ah gett dem milk.  Yuh guh see, nuff gett put unda adda ministry buggit but di wukkas geh senn home.  If opposition nah shoo diss strang an qik, dem PPP bais a goa win di prapa-ganda war donk hay.  Dem coolie bais in PPP clevva baad.

FM

The opposition didn't make any cuts. That's down to the government to make the cuts. And what the government did is keep their highly paid friends in a job, whilst getting rid of those who did not vote PPP.

Mr.T

Bai Nehru, I am not an expert thief in money belonging to the people of Guyana. But please feel free to explain to me the process that you have been undertaking to enrich yourself whilst blaming the opposition. Or are you signed up to the omerta code of conduct?

Mr.T

Bhai, The Guyanese People monies are allowing them to have a WONDERFUL life. Bread(Wheat), Oil (Not Coconut, Dhal(Split Peas not Channa), ALOO(Potatoes) NOT Yams. Should I go on like the Energizer Bunny?

Nehru
Originally Posted by Nehru:

How did this DUMB woman come to that conclusion??? They are the ones who made the bloody CUT, now deal with the bloody consequences.

Shoo yuh nah even knoo wah yuh nah knoo.  Dem PPP bais gatt wan tikk claat ova yuh eye an a gah yuh waalk straate laka wan blind harse wile dem a shove sugga cane yuh bakside.  An all di time yuh waalk an' sing an dance fuh mek am soun an feel rite.

FM
Originally Posted by Sledgehammer:
Originally Posted by Nehru:

How did this DUMB woman come to that conclusion??? They are the ones who made the bloody CUT, now deal with the bloody consequences.

Shoo yuh nah even knoo wah yuh nah knoo.  Dem PPP bais gatt wan tikk claat ova yuh eye an a gah yuh waalk straate laka wan blind harse wile dem a shove sugga cane yuh bakside.  An all di time yuh waalk an' sing an dance fuh mek am soun an feel rite.

wELL hEDUCATE ME NAH BOUT WHA ME NAH KNO. TEL MEH BUT ALL DEM JHANJAT AND CUNUMUNU DAT AH GUH ON NAH.

Nehru
Originally Posted by Nehru:
Originally Posted by Sledgehammer:
Originally Posted by Nehru:

How did this DUMB woman come to that conclusion??? They are the ones who made the bloody CUT, now deal with the bloody consequences.

Shoo yuh nah even knoo wah yuh nah knoo.  Dem PPP bais gatt wan tikk claat ova yuh eye an a gah yuh waalk straate laka wan blind harse wile dem a shove sugga cane yuh bakside.  An all di time yuh waalk an' sing an dance fuh mek am soun an feel rite.

wELL hEDUCATE ME NAH BOUT WHA ME NAH KNO. TEL MEH BUT ALL DEM JHANJAT AND CUNUMUNU DAT AH GUH ON NAH.

Come donk hay an live wid abie an larn fuh yuhself.  Nah sit up deh jump an' prance an crow laka fowl cack.

FM
Originally Posted by Sledgehammer:
Originally Posted by Nehru:
Originally Posted by Sledgehammer:
Originally Posted by Nehru:

How did this DUMB woman come to that conclusion??? They are the ones who made the bloody CUT, now deal with the bloody consequences.

Shoo yuh nah even knoo wah yuh nah knoo.  Dem PPP bais gatt wan tikk claat ova yuh eye an a gah yuh waalk straate laka wan blind harse wile dem a shove sugga cane yuh bakside.  An all di time yuh waalk an' sing an dance fuh mek am soun an feel rite.

wELL hEDUCATE ME NAH BOUT WHA ME NAH KNO. TEL MEH BUT ALL DEM JHANJAT AND CUNUMUNU DAT AH GUH ON NAH.

Come donk hay an live wid abie an larn fuh yuhself.  Nah sit up deh jump an' prance an crow laka fowl cack.

das all da bharwa good faa... jump laka when yuh chap aff a fowl cack head and loose am... 

sachin_05
Originally Posted by Conscience:

At the end of the day I'm very concerned about the many working class families who are now on the breadline, as a direct result of the actions of AFC/APNU.

 

Working people are not affected cuts. Fat cats at OP and useless consultants face the axe. Well done to the opposition. Gail and Luncheon faced cuts.

FM

The state does not exist to support a propaganda crew for the PPP. These people are young and they will not die no less than cane cutters who saw their industry and labor force reduce or the people in linden who lost their jobs as bauxite died or rice farmers being screwed by millers

FM
Originally Posted by Stormborn:

These people are young and they will not die no less than cane cutters who saw their industry and labor force reduce or the people in linden who lost their jobs as bauxite died or rice farmers being screwed by millers

Your goal is for people to die?

FM

The AFC/PNC coalition are a bunch of amateurs. They instituted cuts expecting alleged fat cats to lose out. Now they claim that the working people will be affected. In the US whenever there are budget cuts the first to lose their jobs are the working stiffs, upper management are the last to go regardless of private enterprise or govt run industry. 

FM
Originally Posted by BGurd_See:

The AFC/PNC coalition are a bunch of amateurs. They instituted cuts expecting alleged fat cats to lose out. Now they claim that the working people will be affected. In the US whenever there are budget cuts the first to lose their jobs are the working stiffs, upper management are the last to go regardless of private enterprise or govt run industry. 

MI gree wid yuh.  Now, tell abie, wah shud dem bais do if, leh we seh, dem gatt corrupshun.  Mi nah seh if dem gatt or natt, mi juss waan knoo wah yuh advize how dem shud tek it aan.

FM
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:

These people are young and they will not die no less than cane cutters who saw their industry and labor force reduce or the people in linden who lost their jobs as bauxite died or rice farmers being screwed by millers

Your goal is for people to die?

 I know you are slow on the uptake and often miss what is stated completely because of cookie cutter thinking patters so let me respond; no. The point being made is they are not needed. The nation does not need to subsidize a propaganda crew; 721000 Guyanese need real news not to be duped on a daily basis by an army of Misir and Kwame acculturated automatons.

 

FM
Originally Posted by BGurd_See:

The AFC/PNC coalition are a bunch of amateurs. They instituted cuts expecting alleged fat cats to lose out. Now they claim that the working people will be affected. In the US whenever there are budget cuts the first to lose their jobs are the working stiffs, upper management are the last to go regardless of private enterprise or govt run industry. 

You are always the professional....performing seal! The cuts are to areas that misuse it. They do it right or no. The fat cat pay check to PPP cronies will be addressed differently via legislative strategies in time by making sure the contract workers serve a legitimate need and are not party stool sitters. That the PPP should have under paid young people as "contract" workers is another odium. They ought to be permanent workers accruing all the benefits of that status. They have this class of  contract worker simply to employ faithful party dogs who work at the behest of their party bosses than the job of delivering the news. NCN need to be privatized but unfortunately NICIL which owns it is corrupt and will only farm it off with all its assets to a PPP crony.

FM
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:

These people are young and they will not die no less than cane cutters who saw their industry and labor force reduce or the people in linden who lost their jobs as bauxite died or rice farmers being screwed by millers

Your goal is for people to die?

I know you are slow on the uptake and often miss what is stated completely because of cookie cutter thinking patters so let me respond; no. The point being made is they are not needed.

 

The nation does not need to subsidize a propaganda crew; 721000 Guyanese need real news not to be duped on a daily basis by an army of Misir and Kwame acculturated automatons.

 

Your point is .. ???

FM
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:

These people are young and they will not die no less than cane cutters who saw their industry and labor force reduce or the people in linden who lost their jobs as bauxite died or rice farmers being screwed by millers

Your goal is for people to die?

I know you are slow on the uptake and often miss what is stated completely because of cookie cutter thinking patters so let me respond; no. The point being made is they are not needed.

 

The nation does not need to subsidize a propaganda crew; 721000 Guyanese need real news not to be duped on a daily basis by an army of Misir and Kwame acculturated automatons.

 

Your point is .. ???

FM

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