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Re: Mini history of independent Jamaica
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Humano</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Public policies should be about wealth creation AND promoting a just society. The problem with Manley's words was that they made it sound as if wealth creation and social and economic justice were mutually exclusive. Whenever the wealth creation part of the equation is missing, your public policies (especially under a socialist state) will only serve to make everyone equally poor. Aside from the equality each citizen enjoys before the law, the role of government is not to make all citizens equal, in terms of socio-economic standing, that is, but to ensure that ALL citizens have EQUAL access to opportunities and realize their potentials and not be unfairly discriminated against. </div></div> What he said was in reaction to what the Gleaner was piblishing on a daily basis. He allowed them to mess with his head. He seem to have had a short temper too. But his bark was worse than his bite.The problem was diring those days ther was only one news paper. That is how the other news paper started. To give another voiew. The gleaner was completely siihned to fu=nction as a m,eans to bring his government down. So instead of quietly wait until they got their news paper goung, he would have his utterances, athat was repeated by all th einternational news of the days.On those days Jamaica made the international news on a daily basis.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Humano</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Public policies should be about wealth creation AND promoting a just society. The problem with Manley's words was that they made it sound as if wealth creation and social and economic justice were mutually exclusive. Whenever the wealth creation part of the equation is missing, your public policies (especially under a socialist state) will only serve to make everyone equally poor. Aside from the equality each citizen enjoys before the law, the role of government is not to make all citizens equal, in terms of socio-economic standing, that is, but to ensure that ALL citizens have EQUAL access to opportunities and realize their potentials and not be unfairly discriminated against. </div></div> What he said was in reaction to what the Gleaner was piblishing on a daily basis. He allowed them to mess with his head. He seem to have had a short temper too. But his bark was worse than his bite.The problem was diring those days ther was only one news paper. That is how the other news paper started. To give another voiew. The gleaner was completely siihned to fu=nction as a m,eans to bring his government down. So instead of quietly wait until they got their news paper goung, he would have his utterances, athat was repeated by all th einternational news of the days.On those days Jamaica made the international news on a daily basis.
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