A 20-year cycle of completely valueless spending and a recurring gravy train

Feb 02, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
An ordinary Guyanese man or woman tries to buy the best his/her money could afford. That individual wants quality, longevity and an item that will deliver the best quality for his/her dollar.
That Guyanese man or woman in the street will care for and maintain that item to ensure it lasts its shelf life or even beyond.
It is this value system and the awareness of value for money that has helped many of the poor in this country stay afloat even as the PPP’s enrichment of their wealthy friends at the top while neglecting the working class continues.
The working class people who are economically marginalized are struggling but in their struggles, they practice these philosophies that allow them to get good value for the little money they have to spend.
On the other hand, there is the PPP government. It robs this country with a mountain of draconian taxes. There is the 16%VAT and the 33S!% personal income taxes, plus NIS, plus all kinds of fees for vehicle licences and everything else that the PPP takes from the working class.
What does the PPP do with this money? It takes money from those who prudently manage their money to stay alive and barely stay afloat and it refuses to seek value for that money it spends. If this happens now and then, it could be chalked up to accidents. But this is a 20-year cycle of completely valueless spending that continues day after day in Guyana.
Why does this reckless squander mania continue? Because the PPP and their cronies have created the perfect system to rip the Guyanese people off.
A bridge collapses and the contract is given to the same contractor. A road falls apart within months of being built and more money is given to the same contractor or another failed contractor to do the job again. The road lasts only a few more months before falling apart again.
A brand new building starts sinking and the PPP builds another one at five times the price of the former while that one starts seriously cracking.
The Guyanese people complain bitterly yet the PPP continues to play this corrupt game. Why? Well, there is money to be made from inferior work performed again and again by substandard contractors.
Just like there is serious money to be made from absurd single sourcing contracts to select companies.
When things keep falling apart the day after they were built, there is the excuse and justification to spend more of taxpayers’ money fixing and re-fixing or replacing. The more money is spent, the more opportunities exist for kickbacks. This is a recurring gravy train.
Theft has to hide under some pretense so why not under the constant failure of infrastructure and the constant need to fix and renovate and replace?
Then there is the buying junk philosophy and trying to fool the Guyanese people with it. The latest shocker was the ‘wheelchairs’ it obtained, basically a plastic chair with some wheels attached to the legs. I am not making this up.
Check the newspapers if you are prepared to laugh and cry at the same time. These are all scams intended to profit a few at the expense of the country.
The PPP cannot change the cast because they need these players to keep playing the game of ripping off Guyanese and filling their pockets.
This entire thing is a massive kickback scheme to transfer taxpayers’ money to the cabal and their friends.
The poor man has to ask himself if he would have spent his little bit of income in the manner the PPP is doing.
That is the question serious persons ask themselves when voting in developed countries.
That is why over half a million Guyanese are living in those lands and many more are fighting desperately to flee the PPP paradise.
M. Maxwell

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