OLD Kai has maintained all along that the political leadership in the Opposition has displayed a lackadaisical (careless, lazy…) approach to their roles and responsibilities in the National Assembly to help guide in a responsible manner, the future of Guyana.

The nation knows it is in trouble if the current Opposition ever gets into Government again. This is more evident when the only solution Guyana’s political Opposition can offer to a perceived problem is ‘to cut’. No foresight, no alternatives, no ideas just ‘cut.’

When one looks at their budget presentations, it was painfully obvious how out-of-depth they were.
Even primary school children would exercise more maturity and competence in dealing with an issue.

You would think that the Opposition, comprising the APNU and AFC, would rush to attack Old Kai for such a comment but the reality is that they have also accepted this fact.

During the debates, it was all about highlighting societal problems as typified by the ‘Guyanese girls gone wild’ presentation. There was no deep introspection, no clear analysis, no substitutes or unconventional approach proffered, no mention of “if we were in Government we would have done it like this…”, just rhetoric and fallacies.

One just needs to take a look at the presentation of Opposition leader David Granger, who went hopping all over the place, except dealing with the real problems and offering real solutions. This man is a magician as he promises ‘a good life for all’ by ‘cutting’ and ‘opposing’ every single development initiative for citizens by the PPP/C Government yet offers no alternatives.

So how does he expect our people to gravitate to his utopian world?

Compounding their situation was the fact that they pretended to be concerned about a particular area or segment of our population but made an about turn when it came time to support financial allocations to address those segments by pulling out their ‘tyrannical scissors.’

This is best exemplified by their disproval of the Amerindian Development Fund.

The pathetic excuse given was, rather than spend over $1 billion to fund economic development initiatives and training (developed by the Amerindians themselves) for the Hinterland population across the country, it was better to invest in a Technical Institute. Both the AFC and APNU made this argument.

Sure that will provide training for a handful of youths annually, but it will not develop economic ventures within their communities to provide these very youths the jobs they will require after they would have graduated.

The idea here is to focus development within Amerindian communities to build their resilience and standard of living; so what use will be for these trained youths in their villages if there are no jobs to utilize their skills?

But this is our ‘ingenious’ Opposition. These are the people who would want you to put them in charge of your affairs, and at the helm of our nation. They want you to put them in charge of guiding your future. They want you to put them in Government to make decisions which will positively impact your life and develop your country.

Given this most recent example of the Amerindian Development Fund, will you give them such an opportunity?

But it’s not that straightforward as whenever election approaches, you will have to sift through all their covert and overt ethnic pandering. You will have to overcome their traditional use of race to preserve their core base of support. You will have to decide if you are voting to preserve the status quo of such incompetent leaders because of an ethnic consideration or you are voting to protect your future and advance your standard of living.

You will have to vote for either ‘cuts’ or ‘ideas.’

You will have to vote for either ‘collateral damage’ or ‘progress.’

Ultimately, you will have to decide if you and your family’s future will be secured with the Opposition’s brand of politics or the development thrust of our country under the PPP/C, under which our people have been making historic economic gains.

 PULL QUOTE: Granger is a magician as he promises ‘a good life for all’ by ‘cutting’ and ‘opposing’ every single development initiative for citizens by the PPP/C Government, yet offers no alternatives.

 PULL QUOTE: Ultimately, you will have to decide if you and your family’s future will be secured with the Opposition’s brand of politics or the development thrust of our country under the PPP/C, under which our people have been making historic economic gains