The "Election Season" is here, in fact right around the corner, and sometimes we call it the "silly season" and for good reasons too. With all the things in the air, we get "drunk and stupid" with all the goodies thrown at us from every direction by every politician from every party from every corner of our once lovely country.
They starve us and deprive us for five years or so, then drive around and throw us some "crumbs" to ease our pain and hunger, temporarily albeit, and then disappear for another five year hiatus in hibernation in their milk and honey.
Now, some of the Politicians are out in full force "kissing babies" and making "silly promises" that they know they can't or won't be able to keep. Yet they keep walking around shaking hands and delivering lies, more lies and damned lies, all the while expecting the people to be both "dotish" and "silly", and to swallow their tales "hook, line and sinker", just to believe their "silly stories" and just vote them back into office just one more time.
Just gimme another chance at the "trough", or where the "milk and honey" flows like a river with no end. Oh, Lord Sweet Land of Milk and Honey.
Well, with all these good stuff that they now telling us about, that they would get for us, that they would give us, which we did not know existed before, or even if we did, could not see it, feel it or find it in our once lovely land, and making us "giddy" all the time, we need to slap some cold water on our face every now and then just to keep us sober and stay focused on real life.
We need to stay focused so as not lose sight of the important things that really matters to us as we go about or daily lives at ground level, not at the heights where the politicians choose to nest, way up in the palaces and high offices, and far from the "regular crowd" where the real day to day action happens.
...where FOOD PRICES are so high that HUNGER is now the friend of the family.
...where people just SURVIVES and eke out a daily living for themselves and their families.
...where the KILLINGS, KIDNAPPINGS and ROBBERIES takes place so frequently that they are a DAILY WAY OF LIFE.
...where the TRAFFIC JAMS drive people crazy just sitting and boiling in the hot sun, and going nowhere fast. There is nowhere to go, period.
...where the SICK AND DYING lay in the corridors and floors of the hospital and can't get medical attention, cause they can't afford to fly to the U.S, Canada or England to get the best medical care money can buy.
...where the DOCTORS and NURSES are struggling to cope with less to do more, under the most depressing conditions for them and their patients, with no medical supplies,facilities or funding to do so.
...where their homes are FLOODED every time there is talk about rains in the forecast, let alone rain itself, because of the poor drainage and sewer clogged and back up making life pure hell.
...where people can't get pipe borne WATER let alone water running through their taps to drink, cook, wash or even take a bath.
...where SCHOOLS are held under "MANGO TREES" out in the yard as the buildings are not safe and sanitation is worse for the kids to bear the ugly stench of raw sewage as they try to get an education.
...where the POLICE have STATIONS that are old and delapidated and were built some fifty or sixty years ago, and are unsafe and dysfunctional. They don't have cars or telephones or proper equipment to carry out their work effectively.
...where ELECTRICITY is a luxury item for many people in our country more so than a necessity in our day and age.
...where over $200 BILLION DOLLARS flowed through the government coffers within the last five years and we have nothing to show for it. except..
...except a $148 MILLION DOLLAR PALACE for the emperor and his wife, and built in record time at that.
...and few million dollar STADIUMS built for the emperor ego.
...and where MONEY IS NO PROBLEM, yet we have more POVERTY and STARVATION than most THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES.
... and where CRIME is now a WORLDWIDE TRADEMARK of our once safe and beautiful land.
... where NEPOTISM and CORRUPTION are hallmarks of the legacy of the government and its administration.
...where CREEPING DICTATORSHIP raises its ugly head as a frightening reality by an uncaring Prime Minister.
...where the ALUMINIUM SMELTER and its "DEATH WISH" to the people is shoved down their throats by the "emperor", despite all the hazard warnings brought on by caring people and citizens.
When we are being told that these things, which have happened just in the past five years, will be fixed if we give them another five years back in office and things will change for the better.
Trust them, its the gospel. That this is in the plan for the "emperor" 2020 vision.
...then when we believe in this kind of stuff, we have to either believe in "fairy tales" and "nancy stories too", or:
...we Trinis really believe in the "silliest of things".
goodluck and godbless. Trini.t.o.o.
....to be continued in part 2.