Belize Commentary: Mr. Speaker, I rise….

Mr. Speaker, I rise to make my contribution to the Belize General Appropriation Bill for Fiscal Year 2010/2011. I speak Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the regular citizen on the street, the ones who apparently have no voice in this honorable house. The intention is also mine, Mr. Speaker, to set myself to the task of attempting to ensure that throughout this presentation we do not lose sight of the central message.  Before I turn to the formal stuff therefore Mr. Speaker, I wish to set out in straightforward terms what I see as the main pillar of this so-called
“recovery effort”.

Allow me first Mr. Speaker, to address this misnomer of “recover” for make no mistake, those on the government side of this House, have no need for recovery. Look at them Mr. Speaker, they have grown fat and opulent on the backs of those
very “les miserables” that they purport to represent and now relegate to even
harsher living conditions.

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