Parliament opened yesterday and we are about to hear and see another display of incompetence courtesy of some who would have us believe they have our best interests at heart.

I have never understood why in this country that has been blessed with much, the inhabitants have been subjected to what is possibly the worst standard of living in the Caribbean.

We like to behave as if Jamaica is all that but if that was the case why are so many people eager to jump at an opportunity to live elsewhere, anywhere else but here?

My question is this: Aren't our politicians ashamed that they have made life miserable for so many people?

steal more

Year after year, our taxes go up while in real terms our earning get less and less. The more our taxes go up is the more some dirty, inept public official finds a way to steal more of it for himself and his friends.

We are to hear in the coming days how Government plans to cut spending as it tries to climb from beneath a mountain of debt. Invariably we are also going to hear how, while government is cutting spending, we are going to have to dig deeper way past the hole that has already been burned through our pockets to find more to satisfy government's insatiable appetite.

And so Parliament opens down there on Duke Street, while we're sitting around doing nothing?

Isn't this the time when we should be marching, when we should be standing in our thousands and tens of thousands before Gordon House demanding that the better that we hear must come needs to start arriving sooner rather than later or we will chain the doors of the House shut until further notice.

disrespect

We need to start having public court session wherein we start finding public officials guilty of nothing short of treason for the lies they tell, the disrespect they display and the ineptitude they are obviously proud of.

Surely these people cannot be our brightest and our best. I say that because if they were Jamaica would be the best place in the world to live.

Instead what we have are hard times followed by even harder times. What we have are people working hard each day but find that they are still unable to make an inch of progress.

These same people - if allowed to migrate - find they advance much farther and faster when the same work ethic is applied in the new environment.

You know what is particularly painful; many Jamaicans living abroad, the real ones - the ones not frightened by 'farin' - would give their right arms to return home but they can't. It's hard to return to a life of struggle after living in the lap of luxury for so long. Luxury doesn't have to mean expensive homes, sipping fine wine and savouring rare caviar, just simply being able to provide for your family and having enough to put something away for somewhere down the road.

No, we don't ask for much but as little as we ask for our elected representatives find it hard to provide even that.

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We need to start having public court

session wherein we start finding

public officials guilty of nothing short of treason for the lies they tell, the disrespect they display and the ineptitude they are obviously proud of.