Imagining more possibilites

The UDP used a slogan last 2008 elections that is as unfortunate as the name of the Category 5 hurricane that devastated the Mahuahual area in 2007. My.... it really been a thorn on their side not to mention a mountain of expectation from our Belizeans people. These expectations have been so unfulfilled to the level that the 2008 slogan was thrown into the waste basket of history.

In 2008 the UDP was going to be voted in regardless. The PUP had unravelled and was out there as political carrion. There was no need for the extravagant UDP imaginations(lower everything) which essentially turned into flagrant lies. The other promises that were akin to them were the last minute Free Education fiasco that as history will remember was coupled with the British mass pullout from Belize 1n 1993.

In 2008 the PUP was castigated by even their own PUP by a massive show of disenchantment. History will now show if that political whipping will have taught Belize some lesson.

I NEVER do believe the political chant by opposing politicians that incumbents have done NOTHING. That is always non-sensible. The worse of governments, in Belize, have done good for the jewel. They most likely had the jewel at heart too. The problem is that they have not been able to keep temptation at bay AND likewise have not been able to stymie the desire of TOO many of us Belizeans that crave the freebies.

When the last Musa Administration knew it was in financial trouble it then opened up the budget to debate before it was read the first time to the House. Oh my!! WE are not ready for that.... NO budget would ever satisfy us. And at this point we would be suspicious of any government's budget. We want openness without the mental fortitude to deal with it. Ala Jack Nicholson we 'can't handle the truth.'

We want democracy. We want to vote for a government to lead us...but don't tell us what to do. "You need to ask us before you tell us what to do"....seems to be the prevailing desire. My what impasse would Belize be mired in. Nothing would get done.

March 7, 2012 our NEW electorate will evaluate this UDP administration. It is my hope that it will also vote in the best 31 candidates.

Gone should be the politics of ire.

Gone should be the politics of dismay.

Gone should be the politics of fear.

Gone should be the politics of victimization.

Welcome should be the politics of the people. We the people though should know that that means WORK WORK WORK.

Let the government rule. They reflect us.

If the majority of us take money to vote....then our winning majority will take our money back.

Hmmmmmm....... piensen.

"PUP has no come back fih come back"

Today is the start of my 2012 input into this new charge that ends in the making of Belizean history. March 7, 2012 will be nothing short of the beginning of a new chapter for our Belize. If you love Belize you will care for this day and make sure to participate. You will decide if the title of this blog published is true or simply a simple attempt by a government that has gone afoul of ideas.

IMHO the yellow dude that has been launched again unto the Belizean people to try to convince us to vote for the government and the UDP is repulsive both in message and in his being passé.

My logic tells me if the PUP has 'no come back fih come back' then there is no need for the Christmas giveaways, the sudden giving away of citizenship and voting eligibility, the sudden paving of some streets, the barring of Shakron, the ads paid for with our tax dollars, the parades, t-shirts etc. etc. All these seem like desperate moves from a political contender that is mind-boggled at an impending loss at the election polls.

If you go back to previous posts you will see that I have went on record to state categorically that governing from a position of arrogance and being annoyed with life was/is not good for Belize. I really thought that Mr. Barrow would become a Prime Minister once we had the name. He though never did gain the soothing airs of one that has good in his heart. Maybe he said a little too many times that he will "campaign like the devil."

The Belizean body politic now is busy preparing the only report card that matters...our vote. The current lame duck administration might be at odds not to be the latest of outgoing ruling parties that has NO COMEBACK FIH COME BACK....Not in 2012.

Hey Belize...no super majority please... we are not ready for that. Just a majority of GOOD Belizeans is needed....

In my humble opinion...

Mission Accomplished: By the Barrow Administration...or is it?

Hey... I am still imagining the possibilities. They may be never-ending.

To be fair, no government can fulfill all promises that are set-out in their manifesto. No government of humans had and will be able to do that.

What is troubling nevertheless is the main promise of being the antithesis of the musa-administration. The promise of being transparent as the air. The promise and still over-used mantra of being for the people--the poor especially--keeps re-echoing in the air.

The character of the UDP(08-12) was set out from day-one after the election when PM Barrow said, "But they are just celebrating." He was referring to the broken glass, destroyed property, and riot styled celebrating of the UDP aficionados.

I deliberately want to be concise with the post so let me go directly to the end of the administration or else I will have to mention a certain bridge, a certain undone road, a contrabanding maniac, hurricane "victims", fired opposition aficionados, BTL(robbed), BEL(hijacked), untinted vehicles, BTL phone giveaways, land, SSB fathom write-offs...ooops there I go. Sorry I really meant to go to the end.

The last promise that all Belizeans will be imagining forever will be that of completing their term. On gaining office, Belizean governments promise to lead us and do good for 5 years not four and not three.

Does that mean failure? For me yes...The body politic will cast judgement on March 7, 2012.

Fonseca or Barrow...PUP or UDP etc

In a little more than a month our precious jewel will be lead by a new slate of people. These will come from our very own and will thus be a microcosm of our society. Questionable polls have poised the elections as being too close to call. The history of 1998 and 2008 is that there was no need for a poll...except for the main one giving credibility to the suspicion that the incumbent government would be voted out.

Nevertheless, for those that are floating out there and that are indecisive the decision is there to be made now...or in 30 plus days.

Will Dean Barrow get your support or Francis Fonseca?

I can tell you a few things that I would like to know.

I would like to see the list of people that do not have to pay back money to Social Security. It may have been fluttered at the National Assembly but I would like it to be newspapered. If it is SO SO much of goodness and good news for the nation then let us see it....please.

I would like to know WHO owns Health Care Partners. This little institution helped the last government to be voted in. Yet, the owners are illusive. The same can be said for Heritage bank...can hardly remember the last name...Alliance.

I believe that I am not asking for much. PM Barrow has lead on that he is a man that deals with transparency so it would be an easy deal to offer.

"Bombastic use of terminological inexactitudes"....this is a quote once used by Barrow about Musa and it resounds in my mind. In my last blog post I spoke about Dean Barrow misleading the people and offering lies so many times. The difference is that he never did say that he lied. Also, no journalist had the intestinal fortitude to ask him like Musa was asked once in Dangriga.(do you lie?..easy)

Let's get this straight.... Administrations canNOT tell us EVERYTHING. It would not be in the interest of us all. Even if they want to tell us everything it is impossible.

With that set out.... It does not give any administration the right to mislead, take, and become corrupt. The PUP dabbled into that realm and paid dearly for it at the polls. The UDP has also soiled themselves with becoming corrupt albeit in a short 4 years.

Let us MOVE forward....

Let us NOT vote in the PUP because of what the UDP did. Let us stop the cycle now.

Let us listen intelligently to what is being said. Let us not take any money for a promise of a vote(take 'help' and done). Then decide on who you want to vote for because of the content of their character. Belize needs that. Any landslide decision means that a party along with lousy candidates would have been voted in.

Sorry Barrow....you are the incumbent and that does put the onus on you to promise beyond what you already have had the chance to DO and did NOT do. A Barrow miscalculation is that the usual PUP voters that swung to the UDP to castigate the PUP in 2008 are not happy with being ignored. Barrow helped himself and his UDP people well but what about all those that helped elect him...what about other Belizeans.

Fonseca, you need to distance yourself deliberately from the doings of Said and Ralph. You do have the upper hand in that the people of Freetown voted you in as their representative at the last elections when the PUP was being swept out. The new PUP plan needs to be devoid of unbelievable promises but yet FULL OF HOPE.

In the end of it all, do we trust Barrow with another "five" years and will all the PUP voters that voted UDP in the last elections vote PUP once again? Let the floating end!