While Alfred Sears asks for the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) to be fair at its upcoming national convention, the leader of the party shows that he is unable to even face reality and/or be honest with the people of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas; so exactly why would/should Alfred Sears expect the Progressive Liberal Party that ‘worships’ Mr. Christie to be fair?

“PM: 32,000 new jobs in this term – Christie says economy on path to recovery.” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “The Christie administration has created 32,000 jobs this term, which demonstrates that the economy is on a path to recovery, Prime Minister Perry Christie declared yesterday.

‘No matter what they say about the Progressive Liberal Party, let the statistics put out by the statistics  department speak for us,’ said Christie while addressing the PLP prayer breakfast at the Melia Nassua Beach hotel, kicking off convention week.

‘We have created, since we came to power, not withstanding a challenging economy, over 31,000 jobs, near 32,000 jobs and counting.”

I must say that I commend the person that can stomach such complete and utter nonsense the very first thing in the morning, as for myself at that time of the morning my stomach is just too weak for it all.  First of all, as the Prime Minister now seeks to use the statistics from the Department of Statistics to prove that his administration has indeed spurred ‘tremendous’ job growth; 32,000 over the past 4 and half years; which is about 7,111 jobs per year, I would like to ask of him, is this the very same Department of Statistics that his administration seems to have had a problem with when they contradict their ‘numbers’ last year?  One day they are right and the next day they are dead wrong.

I must say that I am very interested to see the job statistics from which the Prime Minister pulled this figure of his administration creating 32,000 jobs because it would also be very interesting to compare these new jobs to the growing economy, wherein the middle class is indeed growing, creating job opportunities for other individuals, isn’t this what is happening Mr. Prime Minister?  Now if the Prime Minister wants to be completely honest he would have to admit that he is referring to jobs from Junkanoo-Carnival and those related to the last Hurricane because this government has neither created any new permanent jobs or even created the opportunity or atmosphere for them to be created, which takes us back to the failure of this administration to make Bahamian citizen owners of their own economy.

My main point now being of the number of jobs created by the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) government through its various initiatives as is suggested, just how many of them are sustainable jobs?

When I say sustainable, I mean just how many will last long term?  How many opportunities has the government created for willing entrepreneurs to actually start a business of their own, thereby contributing to the economy and also by helping reduce the unemployment rate by hiring people that will also in turn contribute to society?

It is time for a serious conversation and not one dominated by the Prime Minister and his false statistics because we have gone beyond this and the people are asking and wanting and needing more.

The Progressive Liberal Party fails for one reason, it is their nature.

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