THE VOICE OF THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATSBy: Sase SinghIntroductionThere is sufficient national sentiment today for there to be some serious introspection over these lastSase Singh16 months. So while the ruling class got its feet fully immersed into understanding the challenges of administering a nation, the working class was able to establish performance patterns of their government.What is absolutely clear is that the poor and the working class are still deeply exposed to mass acts of economic exploitation similar to what they experienced in the latter years of the PPP. I want to focus on three cases of working class exploitation over the last 16 months – exploitation of the sugar workers, the market vendors, and the public servants.The exploitation does not have a racial face, although some Indo-centric racist elements have been attempting to milk the exploitation from that angle. But they are wrong. This war is being carried out against the working class from all races by the present day ruling class.The Class Struggle and the Guyanese Working ClassIf one observes the Granger administration, one can unearth that it is a government grounded in reactionary policy-making. As a result, too many good dollars are lost on too many bad projects. Such incompetence depletes the patrimony of the Guyanese working class.I observed a letter from one Nigel Hinds on the wages issue. His cogitations exhibited this ill-informed school of thought that the Guyanese man is now better off than he was a year ago. Certainly not Nigel!Note, I said a year ago since I choose not to compare the pre-May 2015 to the post-May 2016 eras. Rather,Cheap China Jerseys, my period of comparison is the early months of the Granger administration vs. the latter months. If one reflects on this 16-month period, one can observe a progressive dilution of the economic well-being of the working man.We have bigger budgets every year but clearly these budgets are not working for the poor man because of two main reasons. One, the respective Ministries is not competently spending the dollars assigned to it in order to leverage the greatest value for the people.Secondly, because our very best continue to run away from Guyana, we have a capacity crisis in the public service, which makes underspending a common occurrence.Yet the Granger administration chooses to play games with the stakeholders. Let me illustrate this position with real examples.Sugar WorkersWhat has happened in the sugar belt is a gross dereliction of duty by the Granger administration to the workers since Guysuco does not only need money but more importantly, leadership. Guysuco does not need theoreticians and inflexible managers but turnaround specialists and “transformationists” who are able to effectively engage and communicate an aspiration; a vision and mission and motivate the workers to become more productive.Today, there is a great divide between the workers and the management. Until and unless the senior management frame the problem within the context of the financial statements and communicate the real issues constantly with the pertinent stakeholders like the workers and their unions, we are engaging in a sort of nebulous game around structures and processes that will not bear the kind of fruits the industry deserves.The end result is that, the industry will burn up billions of dollars as it regresses to the point where the alternatives will become fewer and fewer. Time is of the essence and failure to transform the industry will result in the greatest dilution of wealth ever in the history of Guyana. With less than four months to closure, neither the Parliament nor the workers is clear on the Wales Estate Strategic Plan.Now we are told about some harebrained scheme that is geared to planting rice on sugar lands. That is an absolute waste of good money when the rice markets are flat. How worse can it get?Market VendorsI am 100% in support of the Granger administration cleaning up Georgetown, especially the Stabroek Square,Cheap Jerseys 2018, but the options provided to the mainly female Afro-Guyanese vendors were just ludicrous. Here we have a government struggling to spend its $230 billion budget, but yet there is no vision for the Stabroek Wharf and the surrounding areas.How come the Minister of Public Infrastructure, Mr. Patterson can find some $650 million to build a Parade Ground at Durban Park that has little use for the people of Guyana except for special holidays, but he cannot find the funds to refurbish and expand the Stabroek Market to offer a cleaner and more market friendly environment?There is no action plan, no vision, no program,Wholesale Jerseys Outlet, no milestone, and therefore the deliverables will be sketchy at best. This performance is synonymous to appointing glorified clerks to become CEOs in the respectiv