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Gov't should have fired all 'sleeper spies'
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Dear Editor,
People don't seem to want to say publicly what appears to be badly hurting this government. I think that there are many people in the public sector who see the present administration as the enemy. Many of them hold senior posts. Their purpose is to insist that proposed new approaches to problems can't work, blunt the effectiveness of government initiatives and generally slow things down if all else fails.
They are part of a strategy hatched over the last 20 years, the aim of which is to discredit and destroy any new government. If a key person is moving in the opposite direction to the government's, he can slow their agenda to a crawl. If they let him go, it could cost the country hundreds of millions of dollars in the most extreme cases. Usually such persons have so-called iron-clad contracts that bind them to the government for a long time. I also think that a system was set up to defend operatives like these. This system sees PNP party officials, some media personalities and so-called independents rising to attack the government like angry wasps when one of these persons is touched.
The government would have been accused of witch-hunting and time-wasting if they had removed these people early on. They therefore have sat, suffered and watched their hold on power slipping away.Only if one of these people steps out of line can action be taken. Even then, the wasps still rise to their defence.
It is a good plan to get back into power within five years of losing it. The recession must seem like a God-sent bonus to the planners. The problem for the rest of us is that we suffer while the government and Opposition fight like this, and we suffer worse when the architects of this heartless plan regain power. There are only two ways that the government could win this fight. They could have fired all the sleeper spies when they took over.
Then they would have had to hope that they succeeded spectacularly at running the country, so that the nation would hail them as having done the right thing. The other way is to have some secret master plan that will see a revolution once the IMF and other multilateral loans are in the bag.
The chance for the former has gone. Do they have the guts and imagination to do the latter over the next three years?
Claude Russell
jackreb65@yahoo.com
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Dear Editor,
People don't seem to want to say publicly what appears to be badly hurting this government. I think that there are many people in the public sector who see the present administration as the enemy. Many of them hold senior posts. Their purpose is to insist that proposed new approaches to problems can't work, blunt the effectiveness of government initiatives and generally slow things down if all else fails.
They are part of a strategy hatched over the last 20 years, the aim of which is to discredit and destroy any new government. If a key person is moving in the opposite direction to the government's, he can slow their agenda to a crawl. If they let him go, it could cost the country hundreds of millions of dollars in the most extreme cases. Usually such persons have so-called iron-clad contracts that bind them to the government for a long time. I also think that a system was set up to defend operatives like these. This system sees PNP party officials, some media personalities and so-called independents rising to attack the government like angry wasps when one of these persons is touched.
The government would have been accused of witch-hunting and time-wasting if they had removed these people early on. They therefore have sat, suffered and watched their hold on power slipping away.Only if one of these people steps out of line can action be taken. Even then, the wasps still rise to their defence.
It is a good plan to get back into power within five years of losing it. The recession must seem like a God-sent bonus to the planners. The problem for the rest of us is that we suffer while the government and Opposition fight like this, and we suffer worse when the architects of this heartless plan regain power. There are only two ways that the government could win this fight. They could have fired all the sleeper spies when they took over.
Then they would have had to hope that they succeeded spectacularly at running the country, so that the nation would hail them as having done the right thing. The other way is to have some secret master plan that will see a revolution once the IMF and other multilateral loans are in the bag.
The chance for the former has gone. Do they have the guts and imagination to do the latter over the next three years?
Claude Russell
jackreb65@yahoo.com
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