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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Briggie, never let it be said you ask Lazie for stats and yuh nuh get it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Revealing stats to loyalists is meaningless as all they do is make up flimsy excuses like “<SPAN style="COLOR: black">that doesn't reveal the full story.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>After this lesson, you may put forward as much excuses as possible, but facts are facts.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com
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<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Debt<o></o>[/B]</SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">I have never denied that our debt \ GDP was at its highest under the JLP gov’t of the 80s and I haven’t heard anyone from within the JLP deny it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The fact is drastic times called for drastic measures.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In 1972 we gave likkle boy big man job and him simply fu … no mess up (I’d prefer to use a 4 letter word that starts with ‘f’ as it paints a better picture .. but out of respect .) the economy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o></o></SPAN>></o><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">It took the JLP under Seaga’s leadership 6 years to turn around the disaster, yet you talk about the farce election of 1983?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yuh should be glad as unthinking people would give back Manley the reigns?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So to use the comrade get out of jail card bout highest debt is flimsy, as by 1987 the economy was growing at more than 5%, there was Hurricane Gilbert in 1988 yet in 1989 the economy grew by more than 5% again.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Could he have done it differently?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t know.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet to hea
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></o>[/B]</SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">I have never denied that our debt \ GDP was at its highest under the JLP gov’t of the 80s and I haven’t heard anyone from within the JLP deny it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The fact is drastic times called for drastic measures.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In 1972 we gave likkle boy big man job and him simply fu … no mess up (I’d prefer to use a 4 letter word that starts with ‘f’ as it paints a better picture .. but out of respect .) the economy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o></o></SPAN>- <LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">His own comrade Arnold Bertram wrote in the Sunday Gleaner, “we are yet to experience the levels of growth since 1972.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Who dropped the ball?</SPAN> <LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">According to Ralston Hyman of Real Business, our GDP depreciated by 25% in the 1970s.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Again, who was in charge?</SPAN> <LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">According to the US Congress Library, “</SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: red">Between 1973 and 1980, the island experienced seven consecutive years of negative growth</SPAN>[/B]. The economic downturn in the 1970s demonstrated the highly mobile nature of both labor and capital in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comffice:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Jamaica</st1lace></st1:country-region>, as skilled labor and investment capital left the island. The democratic socialist government of Michael Manley from 1972 to 1980 was popularly blamed for the poor performance during the 1970s (see Political Dynamics, this ch.).”</LI>
></o><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">It took the JLP under Seaga’s leadership 6 years to turn around the disaster, yet you talk about the farce election of 1983?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yuh should be glad as unthinking people would give back Manley the reigns?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So to use the comrade get out of jail card bout highest debt is flimsy, as by 1987 the economy was growing at more than 5%, there was Hurricane Gilbert in 1988 yet in 1989 the economy grew by more than 5% again.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Could he have done it differently?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t know.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet to hea
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