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Forty Years in the Desert... (Nowhere Near the Promised Land)
« on: February 17, 2011, 12:07:55 AM »
Forty Years in the Desert... (Nowhere Near the Promised Land)
.by Phillip Edward Alexander on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 9:46pm.

Empty-hollow-overkill, rhetoric, unsubstantiated innuendo, mischief, misdirection, deflection, shock and awe.

 

These words effectively define the art of communication UNC style, post May 24th 2010.

 

Unlike the flowery courtship lyrics used on the hustings to flirt with and 'sweet talk' the voters, the language of this Administration has soured over the last nine months as one by one the members lose their composure and reveal themselves to the populace as arrogant, incompetent, contemptuous opportunists.

 

With little or no successes to buoy them through the rough patches, this unimpressive Administration's almost legendary failings are dragging them below the acceptable popularity index and is causing many diehard supporters to hide their heads in shame.

 

Is this what replaced the Lion of East Indian politics Basdeo Panday?

 

Even when hobbled and bleeding, his euphemisms lifted the listener and sent most scurrying for their dictionaries; to this day most people don't know what a 'neemakaram' is, but everyone knows that Ramnath and Ramesh were 'neemakerams' at different times during their love/hate relationship with their leader.

 

The lack of class displayed by the current Minister of Health is an indelible embarrassment on the national memory, as is the thuggish antics of Anil Roberts in the House, the comic incendiary explosiveness of the Minister of Justice and the forever 'off the handle' churlish attitude of the Attorney General.

 

Suruj Rambachan's handling of Fazeer Mohammed on air for everyone to see was a display of grandiose perceived power that has never been effectively dealt with and has scarred the CNMG group (and the Government's position on the media by extension) possibly for life.

 

The appointments of under-qualified juveniles to State Boards only underscores the lack of professionalism in the hiring practices of this Government and goes to the heart of its incompetence.

 

That it eventually erupted in the Reshimi fiasco and the soon to erupt Susan Francois fiasco seems to be lost on Kamla and crew, and the proliferation of members of Chandresh Sharma's progeny, offspring and relatives on the national payroll is a worrying sign to the population as these people no longer even try to disguise their real reason for seeking power.

 

It was never about Trinidad & Tobago.

 

It was packaged and sold to us as that, with a list of reasons that demonized the last Administration out of Office, but only so that the current group could enjoy the spoils.

 

For all of his arrogant hubris and dictatorial tendencies, one cannot fault the last Prime Minister's policies, which had the effect of carrying the country safely from harbor to harbor despite a global recession and his need to glorify himself.

 

Had he the sense to understand that the people wanted a leader and not a pruning banana-republic, high-flying, entertaining, church-building, project-managing buffoon, he would have remained in Office; and even though many in his Administration were looting the treasury in one way or another, many in this Administration is busy doing the same thing, albeit with a lack of policies or clue as to what it takes to effectively govern Trinidad & Tobago.

 

Like many of my friends who still support the Congress of the People, we are only in the Party with one toe left, waiting for the last straw or for a better offer, because what we got into bed with on the night of May 24th is not who we woke up with on May 25th.

 

Worse, it wasn't just a one night stand, and we have to look at that line up day in and day out for at least four more years barring some sort of miracle.

 

As it stands, the CLICO investors are fuming, the Public Sector workers are demonstrating, the Private Sector is hurting, the poor are suffering and even the protective services are striking, and all we're still hearing is Manning, Manning, Manning.

 

Seriously?

 

This Government does not appear to have any answers to the problems that plague our country and no one seems to be taking the Prime Minister's explanations and platitudes seriously anymore.

 

Someone asked me in council if given the opportunity to advise the Prime Minister on a way forward what would I suggest, and for the first time I found myself completely stumped; I mean, what do you do, what do you say, when you realize that your Government's best interest and your country's best interest are  mutually exclusive properties?

 

Regardless of the talk, spin, rewrite, attack, defend, whatever, the unadulterated, cold-water-in-your-face, unvarnished truth is that this Government is perilously close to having failed in Office and even their own supporters have no idea how to defend them now.

 

It seems that they have found themselves completely up a river without a paddle and their major weapon has run out of steam.

 

This is not about Manning anymore...



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Re: Forty Years in the Desert... (Nowhere Near the Promised Land)
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2011, 08:14:31 AM »
Wow... he cut right to the heart of the matter with laser-like precision boy.  This should probably be condensed and sent to the Editors of he the dailies for publishing.  There are a few people who really following de scenes, but I have a sinking feeling that the populace at large just lurching from fiasco to fiasco without really connecting the dots.

 

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