Socialist jokers, socialist clowns, socialist liars

Aug 19, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Dr. Cheddi Jagan was one of history’s fanatical communists even more than Comrades Lenin, Stalin and Chairman Mao. So less than one year after he became President, Dr. Jagan went up to Port Mourant and told the delegates at the PPP’s congress that he was still a Marxist-Leninist.
All, without exception, all PPP leaders would answer, without even an ounce of hesitation, if asked what ideology they support. It would be socialism. They would be eager to tell you; “It’s in my blood comrade. I am a born socialist.”
Don’t let’s get into an analytical discourse as to what socialism is. The youngest primary school kid if asked to explain what a socialist government would do, will tell you that its policies would be designed to help the labouring masses to achieve a decent living without having to face deprivations.
Where is the socialism in Guyana after eighteen years of Papa Cheddi and Mama Janet’s socialist protégés, some of whom are shameless fans of rich, wealthy Guyanese whose company they seek, and who give away the resources of the country to these rich folks because they want to be like them. Some have succeeded in this regard – they are Guyana’s billionaire socialists.
There is a careful backpedaling on the intended rise in fees for UG students. It came at a wrong time. How can you talk of increase in fees when an election is around the corner? The truth is that all, I repeat, all the PPP personnel on the Council of the University supported an increase in fees when the matter came up.
In fact, there were jeers around the table from these same people when this writer, the union representative called for the abolition of fees. The students’ and workers’ unions are coming out against this intended economic insensitivity and will issue a press release that will contain six arguments why there should be no increase. Poor Marx, poor Lenin, they must be turning in their graves. A socialist government demanding poor people pay for education.
Once the election is over, if they win, they will definitely introduce a huge hike in UG fees. The only way of stopping this anti-poor train is to vote these socialist clowns out of office. They never fail to tell you that they are socialist but in capitalist Trinidad and Barbados, university education is free.
Here in Guyana, ruling politicians who have socialist genes overflowing in their bodies copied a tax system called Value-Added Tax (VAT). They spent countless years studying what to tax. And when VAT came out, Marx and Lenin turned in their graves and Castro was so mad that he threatened to invade Guyana.
Guess what the socialist jokers, socialist clowns and socialist jokers put VAT on? No! You are not going to believe it. Yes ladies and gentlemen – eggs, bread, flour, split peas (that Burnham banned and caused the PPP to become a big name in Guyana), salt biscuits (that the rich don’t eat and won’t even feed to their dogs.), I could go on but there are more anti-poor policies to describe.
Here now are two oppressive monsters that no PNC leader, I repeat, no PNC leader from the time the PNC was born onto to this day, would dare allow to roam the land – paid water and costly electricity supply.
In Guyana, every working class man and woman has to pay for water even if they are tenants, because the landlord demands that they pay for the water they use. In poor homes with a legal meter supplied by GPL, the electricity bill starts at $10,000 (it may be more) once there are more than four lights in the home and a fridge. Check the minimum wage and see if these working class people can survive. I swear on my parents’ grave I know a woman with one fluorescent bulb in a small room whose bill was $5,000 monthly. I know this because she lived with us and had the use of this single room with its own meter.
Here is an example of socialism at work. After the creation of the Berbice Campus, the place had to be staffed with Turkeyen-based lecturers.
Here was the package offered. All lecturers would meet at 05.00h outside the Beharry Residence on UG Access Road and would be taken up to Berbice by minibus. There would be a G$500 meal allowance. The lecturers called it “Chinee food money.” Needless to say this was emotionally rejected by the lecturers. The PPP Government in 2010 is the world’s most anti-poor regime.

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