Well a nedda bredda si di lite! - Cut costs,not jobs

[Karl]

..all be it he speaks to his specific point...but can this not run throughout the entire economy?

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Cut costs,not jobs

Published: Friday | March 26, 2010



THE EDITOR, Sir;
IT HAS been stated by the Government that by reducing the workforce in the public sector, Jamaica would see a more efficient public sector in action. This is a false assumption. It is the responsi-bility of any government to provide work for its people. Government is not here to make a profit but to see to the survival of its people. There are other things the Government can do to safe money [COLOR=orange ! important][COLOR=orange ! important][COLOR=orange ! important][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] other than reducing the workforce.


Vehicles assigned to ministers of government should be monitored by the auditor general by the use of a daily logbook that indicates the trips made; whether these are for official business and also the usage of the fuel and other maintenance costs.


Unused vehicles
There should be a proper monitoring of the fuel credit card for the vehicles. Vehicles found to be uneconomical to operate should also be disposed of immediately. Across Jamaica, there are many government vehicles parked at garages and government departments for years. Some of these could be sold.


Drivers and officials using government vehicles to do unofficial 'work' should pay for fuel or any damage to vehicles.There are many things within the public sector to adjust, other than cutting jobs.
I am, etc.,
LeROY HALL
hallleroy86@yahoo.com
Montego Bay
St James

[Muadib]

Its the responsiblity of any government to provide work for its people ??

Wheh him mean by dat ?

Karl ?

[Mosiah]

it's the responsibility of the govt. to provide the conditions for employment.

see file on west kingston dons.

[MdmeX]

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Unused vehicles
There should be a proper monitoring of the fuel credit card for the vehicles. Vehicles found to be uneconomical to operate should also be disposed of immediately. Across Jamaica, there are many government vehicles parked at garages and government departments for years. Some of these could be sold.

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This bredda MAD. Any Govt. vehicle that park any where for X period of time, you can guaranee that vehicle is now only a SHELL. A who him thing a guh buy it

[Muadib]

ooh.. dat is my understanding.. yuh haffi careful. yuh have some characters dat tink Govt responsibility is fi hire people...

Dat was/is the PNP philosophy.. unfortunately..

[ReggaeMike]

ooh.. dat is my understanding.. yuh haffi careful. yuh have some characters dat tink Govt responsibility is fi hire people...

Dat was/is the PNP philosophy.. unfortunately..

That is my understanding too, but I don't think that is what dat bredda meant.

He used enough big words I think so that he should know "conditions" but he never said dat. He said:

"This is a false assumption. It is the responsi-bility of any government to provide work for its people. Government is not here to make a profit but to see to the survival of its people. There are other things the Government can do to safe money other than reducing the workforce."

Flat out said "provide work for its people" and that it is not here to see a profit but the survival of its people. Dat sound like he meant what he wrote.

Maybe he should live in Vietnam, that's the system they operate there where government = state = the people and everything supposedly owned by everybody and people are assigned work.

Then again I've just noticed he said "safe" for "save" so maybe he did mean "government should create conditions for employment" instead of directly providing work.

[Karl]

Then again I've just noticed he said "safe" for "save" so maybe he did mean "government should create conditions for employment" instead of directly providing work.

I wonder why you think the government should not do both...and many are the ways it should?

[Willi]

But this is exactly what the lady in charge said. They are looking for efficiency and rationalization as the objective...not cutting per se. They will do cuts and reassignments, but as a means to an end, not and end in itself.

At least that is the talk.

As Mo said, Govt is there to facilitate conditions for mass employment, not to create jobs of its own sake in the public sector. At the same time, given the massive tax burden in the middle of a global recession, it does not seem feasible for the Govt to massively shed public sector jobs...that would be deflationary.