One way ticket to anywhere...please

So if you haven't been watching the news, or listening to the radio, or living or breathing lately perhaps you're not aware that Jamaica is in some deep shit I mean a whole lotta crap... a bit of a pickle, financially. Now with all the jargon being thrown around on the news about the International Monetary Fund "deal", the National Debt Exchange (NDX...almost sounds like the next pop sensation Diddy will discover and then destroy doesn't it?), another national tax reform and Portia consciously letting us know that we (not the collective "we" which will include parliament, the "you the people" kind of "we") have to tighten our belts AGAIN...

the ordinary man (and myself) will be pretty confused... Until you go to purchase something. The first week of "tax reform introductions" saw gas prices increasing by THREE WHOLE DOLLARS. Now, it may not seem like much but let's do some math shall we? The average car's gas tank will hold about 40 liters, and say this week we bought gas for JMD $100. Therefore to fill the tank this week is $4000... Good you're still with me; now next week gas is $103, so we'll pay a measly $120 more - $4,120... that measly $120 becomes almost $500 dollars a month and then almost $6000 at the end of the year.. and let's all remember that this $3 climb is the first of many, so mek we add up how much money we losing (or spending rather) in gas ALONE.

Have you been to the bank lately? Or perhaps you like to watch the business news and pretend you understand it? You would realize that the exchange rate for American and Canadian dollars as well as the British pound are skyrocketing!

The above courtesy of NCB paints the picture of pretty much what we are facing in Jamaica. Instead of all the jargon, perhaps someone needs to explain our situation logically to the people of Jamaica, and no I do not mean another weird ass/boring dual address from the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance. What we need is the truth not some sugar-coated bull sh generic response. Is this really a democracy, is this really a government for the people, by the people and of the people? Or have our leaders forgotten basic grade 3 General Knowledge?

Whether you are a PNP supporter or a JLP fanatic at this point is not important, and all that unnecessary bickering in Parliament, and the uproar about those recent European ads is all CRAP ..ALL OF IT IS ONE BIG LOAD OF CRAP  distracting citizens and the parliamentarians from the issue at hand... Jamaica sinking beneath debt and lies, corruption and corporate thievery, social decay, partisanship and "donmanship". 

We have so much work to do here...Efforts need to be made by both the government (not just from an instructor perspective but from a participatory perspective) and the people to allow Jamaica to become anything reminiscent of an independent country (which it claims to be). I am not going to begin talking about the same "poor people governor", the lovely Mama P who has not down-sized her cabinet nor suggested a pay cut for the one bag a man an ooman she have siddung inna Gordon House a day time when she see seh Jamaica a guh dung inna hole... 

I'm not sure where I want to be in the next 10 years, but I sure as hell don't want to be here....