Opposition must concentrate more on accountability, effectiveness and transparency

THE opposition’s answer to the budget is not what better budget improvements they would have made, but that it was an election budget. Well, maybe all budgets should be a reason for re-election. Budgets must emphasise one or all of these factors: jobs, poverty reduction or infrastructure. Balancing all needs is a real test of leadership.

Their main complaint seems to be that the pensions should have been higher. Their continued preoccupation with Mr. Rohee at the expense of potential beneficial programmes is hard to understand.

Unfortunately, they cannot seem to understand that the budget must be balanced, and money given one place must be taken from another place. It is always easy to talk about reducing taxes and spending more on different places, if you do not have to find the money lost from lower taxes.
It is equally hard to tell one group that money that could have benefited them, have been given to others. The opposition must concentrate more on accountability, effectiveness and transparency in programmes than in simply opposing them due to some perceived deficiency.

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