The PPP used the budget cuts to rile up and then abandon its supporters

Apr 30, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
Guyanese people should know better by now. This entire budget cut cussdown and battle is nothing but a grand pretentious masquerade. The PPP is signalling now it will accept the reduced budget after gallivanting all over this country crying crocodile tears in its strongholds and maintaining it will defy the budget cuts to its dying breath.
This dramatic turnaround from the PPP means one of two things; either the bunch of Jagdeoites at Freedom House knew all along it would accept the budget cuts or the PPP plans to repeat what it did last year and secretly restore the budget cuts in flagrant violation of Parliament.
Either way, the PPP’s antics by scampering like wild animals all over Guyana and particularly into PPP strongholds weeping, wailing and caterwauling were nothing but a charade, sham, masquerade and a big lie intended to fool, con, hoodwink and rip-off Guyanese and particularly PPP supporters.
The PPP thinks Guyanese, and its supporters, are a gullible and easily fooled bunch. To rile up and agitate an entire nation and your supporters in this fashion only to backpedal, turn around and stab them in the back is shameful politics and reveals exactly how the PPP views its voters – as putty to be played with and discarded.
If the PPP stood its ground as it promised its supporters and refused to accept the budget cuts, it would have been doing what it promised. Instead, it led its constituency down a road laid with deceit. One has to seriously wonder what manner of persons are large and in charge of the PPP to think that to so fraudulently agitate PPP supporters behind opposing the budget cut, only to turn around and stab them in the back, is a rational and reasonable decision.
People are not playthings. In a country living on the edge of political and racial division, you cannot play these games of moral prevarication, lying and cheating to your own supporters and expect trust will magically appear. The PPP got its supporters to rouse themselves into fury only to make a mockery of their passion.
This sinister act of the PPP in knifing its own supporters in the back reflects a deep-seated disease in the Jagdeoite-controlled PPP – the perception that the Guyanese people and PPP supporters are nothing but mere pawns to be toyed with for the gain of the chosen few running things at Freedom House.
The PPP after Cheddi Jagan became a party that has brutally and shamefully used its supporters in a most disingenuous manner to enlarge and enrich the power and wealth of a few in control of the PPP and their cronies.
On the issue of the PPP planning to secretly restore the budget cuts and to spend the money without telling Parliament like it did last year, I find the opposition flagrantly inept and weak in confronting this despicable conduct. When it discovered the PPP’s misconduct in January 2013, the opposition promised all manner of retribution upon the PPP, but we have seen or heard nothing. No PPP members were reprimanded or sanctioned.
One has to wonder whether the PPP’s agreement with the reduced budget today is tied to some backroom deal-making with the opposition to let the PPP MPs who spent the people’s money wrongfully in 2012 walk away scot free in exchange for the PPP agreeing to the budget cuts.
One has the wonder whether there was some kind of insider wheeling and dealing between the opposition and the PPP to drop the sanctions in exchange for the PPP accepting the budget cuts.
How does the opposition let the contract worker system remain intact and inept persons who made royal messes at the Local Government ministries get super salaries as consultants with a maid, gardener and paid transportation, while the working class majority of this country line up by the tens of thousands every day paying for transportation to get home from work to be their own maids?
This budget has all the hallmarks of a collusive battering like this nation has not experienced before. There is runaway political immorality in this country and the working class, poor and those outside of the trough bear the brunt of it every single day of their struggling lives.
M. Maxwell

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