Not so, Mr Wignall

[Muadib]

yuh still a yap dem tripe deh ??

Seaga had us clipping at over 5% growth and climbing after him sort out Manley mess.. if unnuh nevah fall fi Joshua sweet mout in '89 and give Eddie 4 Terms instead ah di Black Fresh Prince all now yuh coulda be eating Seedless grapes right yah suh instead of haffi a freeze up suh..

Tap yuh noise and tap look company fi PNP shock and awe attack pon di Jamaica Economy..

[Don1]

LOL...clipping?? Funny ...and superficial

Dat so called growth was based on massive transfers from the US govt and massive debt expansion... We need to be weaned from such tings like Lee Kwan Yew would want...no choo?? But im did promise dat Money agguh Jingle inna Man pocket

Well Reagan did also create dat 807 garment piece work program fi Seaga...dat neva suh bad. Too bad dem nuh intressted inna such tings nowadays

[Muadib]

lol ! woiee !

Yuh chat s h i t all day or yuh save it fi di Forum ?

<The reaction of the former prime minister and finance minister was, therefore, not surprising. After all, during the five-year period most affected by his 1980s economic policies, goods production rose to levels not seen since the boom years of the 1960s. Manufacturing output and exports were growing. Some of the biggest names in global manufacturing operated in Jamaica. And a whole new modern garment-manufacturing industry was created, employing nearly 40,000 workers and generating exports exceeding half a billion US dollars annually.

This decision to sideline manufacturing in favour of services seemed completely divorced from rationality, given the relative vibrancy of the manufacturing sector at the time. Jamaica's manufacturers were outperforming CARICOM competitors in regional trade by as much as 40 per cent before Trinidad imposed its trade embargo against them. Manufacturing's contribution to exports and import substitution was significant in bringing our exports to within 40 per cent of imports - a level not seen since then. Today, imports are almost four times the value of our exports.>

Wheh dem ah talk bout now fi di port.. Seaga was ah line up from dem days.. Lee Kuan Yew stylee !

Yuh can yap now because him get derail by di PNP propaganda machinery (yuh mussi did a wuk hard fi dem back den)...

Him warn unnuh before unnuh leggo di gate. unnuh nevah listen.. suh yuh can yap bout Tivaarli now.. another victim of di PNP Malpractice..

Now yuh haffi ah bawl ovah eediat like Chavez cause him prop unnuh up..

Wutliss set..

[Don1]

Seaga yappin about a port means nothing...Mout mek fi seh anyting. He had his 9 years and did little about that or building a sustainable productive base. Seaga was Reagan's pet and heavily subsidized his govt... the results were sub par except for the massive debt increase

You clearly don't understand what the 7% JLPNP Crime Syndicate induced haircut means

It means that WHATEVER the official growth number may be...it should be 7 points higher if that JLPNP negative factor wasn't present...

Minus US$60 Billion in GDP later... dawg still ah nyam wwi suppa

Fiya bun unnu JLPNP tribalists

[Muadib]

Tap chat s h i t yute... Seaga had us on a production path and was derailed by yuh people dem Economic Malpractice...

Claude Clarke can admit it.. why can't you.. yuh household tendencies too strong.. Seaga run over yuh big toe..

Stick to yuh Tivaaarli propaganda.. yuh will only get hurt extending into big people matters..

Give dis tuh someone with intelligence to read and then explain to you:

<Jamaica's real economy contracted following this policy shift. Goods and export services, as a share of GDP declined by more than 30 per cent and the economy stagnated, registering average growth of less than one per cent. Taken together, goods and export services share of GDP declined by more than 30 per cent and the economy stagnated.

Effects of shifted focus

The revelation that Government deliberately removed its focus from the production of goods to services explains the seemingly irrational economic policies that piled pressure on the country's goods producers for more than two decades and decimated the productive sector. It explains interest-rate and exchange-rate policies that senselessly raised the foreign-exchange cost of all local inputs to production without regard to the economy's falling productivity.

The decades-long failure to address the high cost of energy can only be explained by that fateful policy decision. And it certainly explains the hitherto inexplicable sanguineness of our governments and their economic technocrats with the persistent 'bang-belly' economy that emerged in the 1990s: an economy characterised by a distended domestic services sector and a wasted productive sector.>

Now go back to worshiping Chavez.. a mendicancy born of the same PNP Economic Malpractice..

[Rockman]

The higher the monkey climbs...
You are attributing policies that were dictated by the various(Free Trade,IMF etc,decline in export of banana,importing skim milk replace dairy milk etc) agreements and somehow faulting Govt for falling in line.
You are not one for rebellious actions hence your disdain for Michael Manley. You further add insult to injury attributing those capitalistic ventures to those leaders that(Michael self reliance and Chavez demanding fair trade in lieu of free trade) rebelled.
Maybe you are taken cues from the wrong literature,that does not validates you, it discredits you,and reveals you to be ignorant.

[Don1]

Seaga had Jamaica on a path of dependence on massive debt and mendicant handouts from the USA...the PNP completed the hatchet job wid dem fooliniss inna di 1990s...

Here's what the Republican oriented, Seaga-friendly Heritage Foundation had to say in 1986:

Today, Jamaica's great promise remains unfulfilled. To be sure declines in world prices for bauxite and alumina, principal Jamaican commodities, have slowed the government's development programs leading to heavy borrowing abroad and a 3.2 billion foreign debt.

Yet the main cause of today's economic woes is that Seaga's government has failed to create a fertile investment cl-imate for foreign and local businessmen. The sad truth is that state control of Jamaica's economy has actually increased in some sectors since the JLP assumed power.

Jamaica is too important to U.S. and Caribbean regional security to allow its potential to remain. largely untapped Unless.Seaga can revitalize his nation's economy before the island's next elections which could be.called at any time, but must be held by t he end of 1988 former Prime Minister Michael Manley and his socialist People's National Party (PNP) could return to power.

This would be a blow to the validity of the free enterprise concept for the developing world and to U.S. efforts to stem Soviet and Cuban influence in the Caribbean

As Seaga meets with top U.S. officials this week, they must make it clear that continuation of the nearly 1 billion in U.S. aid given to Jamaica since 1980 is contingent upon the rapid structural reforms that will ignite th e power of free market forces for the country's 2.3 million inhabitants.

US$1 Billion in mendicant grants and massive debt accumulation in just 3 years. Those grants alone would be the equivalent of about US$3 Billion in today's money

Money jingling inna people pockets from this "production" LOL

[Mosiah]

Okay!

[Muadib]

Falling in line ?!! lol !! woiee !

Stap chat nonsense.. they are the Govt.. prudent handling of the Economy is their Job.. Seaga warned them and dem fvck it up ! Dat is the Facts as brilliantly confessed by Claude Clarke one of yuh own..

Dem was suh eagah to get back into power dat dem mek eediat promise and swing the pendulum completely tuh di oddaside of dem socialist experiment and ream di country from a next angle..

Dat is what yuh get when populists are in power and not prudent minds.. like Seaga...

All now unnuh cyaan learn.. and that is why the country if fvcked.. eediat Leaders supported by eediat followers.. dem nevah vote in demself..

It is what it is.. we have been cursed by a generation of rebels without a cause with chips on their shoulders the size of the Grand Canyon.. Jamaica will never elevate based on local forces.. the well has been too poisoned as demonstrated by the PNP success at the polls..

Unless the Logistics Hub comes about.. as a Key Ministah seh him ready fi pack him bags fi Africa because there is no hope after that.. all Haiti will pass us..

The root of this insidious poison can be found in the brainwashing at the Intellectual Ghetto in the late 60's and 70's creating a generation of quixotic 'freedom fighters' galvanized by a naive sociopath of a light skinned complexion ironically whose likeness is ironically preserved on our Thousand Dollar bill..

[Muadib]

Claude Clarke has already given the full hundred...

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...cleisure2.html

What happen..? It nuh tuh your liking ?

The reaction of the former prime minister and finance minister was, therefore, not surprising. After all, during the five-year period most affected by his 1980s economic policies, goods production rose to levels not seen since the boom years of the 1960s. Manufacturing output and exports were growing. Some of the biggest names in global manufacturing operated in Jamaica. And a whole new modern garment-manufacturing industry was created, employing nearly 40,000 workers and generating exports exceeding half a billion US dollars annually.

<This decision to sideline manufacturing in favour of services seemed completely divorced from rationality, given the relative vibrancy of the manufacturing sector at the time. Jamaica's manufacturers were outperforming CARICOM competitors in regional trade by as much as 40 per cent before Trinidad imposed its trade embargo against them. Manufacturing's contribution to exports and import substitution was significant in bringing our exports to within 40 per cent of imports - a level not seen since then. Today, imports are almost four times the value of our exports.>

lol ! woiee !!

[Don1]

1. Seaga is the GodFaada of JLPNP tribalism & violence which is by far the biggest drain on the economy

2. Seaga allied with the US destabilized the JA economy in the 1970s...then as Reagan's pet project was heavily subsidized by US mendicant grants and massive debt...ah nuh mi seh suh...Babylon demself seh dat

3. We are agreed that PNP is incompetent...no argument there

4. At US$5 Billion in mendicant subsidies for only the price of a OAS vote.... Long Live Uncle Hugo!!!

[Muadib]

Seaga destabilized the economy in the 70's ??

lol ! woiee !

How ? 5 Flights a Day ?

You are really exposing yuhself Comrade Clown.. utter tripe.. glad yuh ending the pretense..

Willi seeit deh !! Yuh cyaan tell mi nutting...mi si dem and mi know dem.. mi guh good school..

[Don1]

LOL...den who yuh tink Babylon CIA did ah collaborate wid fi dun Manley?? NDM?? Yuh naive bad..

Anyway...yuh free fi worship dat DayWalker...is muss bite im bite yuh

[Muadib]

Dun Manley ?? But him nevah win di 1976 Election by landslide.. ??

lol ! woiee !! Wheh yuh call dat.. failed destabilization ?

You twit.

Jamaica was destabilized in the 70's by the quixotic and reckless distribution policies of Michael Manley.. he was only bettered by PJ and Omar in the 90's.. wheh yuh seh.. CIA again ?

lol !

Willi ! is dem clown yuh ah defen ?

[Don1]

You should read books on the subject to get educated ...not just JLP position papers

Now that I have pointed the way...sally forth den rally back wid a less tribal approach

Thanks in advance