REFERENCE is made to an Alliance For Change (AFC) release captioned “Government sabotaging its own budget” the essence of which contends that the PPP/C “seems interested in having its own budget not approved.” What a ridiculous conclusion as any that could have ever been offered!Obviously, this has to be the thinking of loonies or specifically, political lunatics; for which government that has worked as hard as this government since its ascension to office, thereby ushering in the numerous socio-economic changes that have set Guyana firmly on the path of modernisation, would ever want to undo all that it would have achieved for the Guyanese people. This ought to be the first reminder to such puerile thinking.
Of course, the government wants its Budget 2014 passed with its estimates, as after all it will continue the transformation programmes ever since underway for bettering the lives of the people.
But it does not intend that such be had at any price, such as the unreasonable demands and blackmail tactics by the AFC and its opposition colleague party, the A Partnership For National Unity (APNU).
Both opposition parties should be reminded that a country’s growth and development is successfully determined in a visionary and rational manner, and not via the big stick route.
MATTHEW HENSON