So How Do You Measure "Influential" ?

[R_C]

Here is a quote from Time magazine:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">&quot;In 2006 she made history, becoming the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of Jamaica. She was re-elected in December 2011. While she has worked for many years as a public servant representing all Jamaicans, there is a great sense that her leadership will expand far beyond her island nation. In addition to her call this year to break with the British monarchy and make the island a republic, Portia is promoting full civil rights for gays and lesbians, a courageous move in a country with a violent history of homophobia&quot;.</div></div>

It might have been instructive for those who wrote this article for Time magazine to visit the constituency of &quot;one the most influential people in the world&quot; and actually speak with Jamaicans who live there and ask them if they go to bed at night worrying about the British monarchy and civil rights for gays and lesbians.

The disconnect between the media and the everyday lives of people can be breathtaking.

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: So How Do You Measure &quot;Influential&quot; ?

You are lucky to have a political representative eho supply your housing.
Only people libing on city city iwned property in my state get that.
Pity jamaica this year's budget of less than US$7 Billion cwn afford such luxuries.

[R_C]

Re: So How Do You Measure &quot;Influential&quot; ?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dr.Dudd</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You are lucky to have a political representative eho supply your housing.
Only people libing on city city iwned property in my state get that.
Pity jamaica this year's budget of less than US$7 Billion cwn afford such luxuries. </div></div>

Scratching my head at &quot;luxury&quot; and &quot;Majesty Gardens&quot;.

In any event Dudd, did you not see the following tid bit in the article ?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">&quot;With hundreds of households - some with multiple families - living in substandard conditions in the community, 96 two- and three-bedroom houses being constructed will make little change.

After lucky individuals get the keys to their new houses in December in phase one of the project, and several others shortly after in phase two, <span style="font-weight: bold">hundreds of families will still be living in squalor</span>.&quot;</div></div>

[evanovitch]

Re: So How Do You Measure &quot;Influential&quot; ?

said reason i chuckled at the article on Bolt where dat Marley daughter was referred to as renowned...