The Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), while in government, created a false sense of security within The Bahamas when it ‘created’ jobs which The Bahamas’ economy could not afford to sustain but yet as these jobs are being phased out they come to the public and proclaim that the current Free National Movement (FNM) government is failing in the area of job creation.

“Davis rakes FNM on joblessness”  – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article’ “Opposition Leader Philip Brave Davis said yesterday that Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Peter Turnquest’s admission that the government expects some increase in the rate of joblessness in The Bahamas shows the Free National Movement (FNM) ‘deliberately created higher unemployment’ in the country to ‘fulfill their political agenda..’

‘In five years under the PLP (Progressive Liberal Party), unemployment was reduced to single digits with 39,505 jobs being added in the economy,’ said Davis in response to Turnquest accusing the former administration of creating ‘bogus’ contract jobs the government could not afford or sustain.

In the last unemployment survey, the Department of Statistics revealed that 16,000 people were ‘vulnerable’ or temporary workers, with 7,700-plus jobs added in the last six months of the Christie administration’s term.

‘The PLP left the economy on its feet,’ Davis continued .

‘We built a firm and solid foundation on which to build.”

Exactly what “firm and solid foundation” was this?!

From this statement I get the feeling that we all could solve the country’s economic woes by simply marketing whatever the leader of the opposition is on, but I have the propensity to digress.

It is indeed a difficult task to explain to people when they are hurting, why the present government is doing what it is doing and the past Progressive Liberal Party administration is depending on this very fact to push a message of “Is it really the people’s time?” when they push this narrative of the inability of the government to create jobs but one must really look at the past government’s record on job creation when they claimed that ‘things were good’ and ask why were these jobs, for the most part,  in the public sector where money was being spent at a rate that the country was just unable to sustain?

Wouldn’t the economy being severely depleted to the point where it was downgraded to a point where your currency was not worth the paper that it was printed on at some point of the other at this rate?

But then this statement by the leader of the opposition is really not about the government’s inability to create jobs, they know exactly what the current situation is and what has to be done to correct the situation although they did not have what it took to do so, but rather it is more about some deranged conspiracy theory in the mind of Philip ‘Brave’ Davis and only a ‘Brave’ person could talk such nonsense and walk away from it not thinking of the possible consequences.

“…shows the Free National Movement (FNM) ‘deliberately created higher unemployment in the country to ‘fulfill their political agenda”, who was it in the former PLP administration that recommended a psychological examine of those running for public office?  It would have been much more acceptable if he had suggested that this was a sign that the present FNM had no plan for job creation but to suggest that the present government is making the situation worst to be seen as ‘heroes’ when they fix it only suggests that there is a plan in place and that he [the  leader of the opposition] sees the plan but wishes not to acknowledge it out right but attack it from some weird , schizophrenic angle.

Indeed, the former administration created a false sense of security that was bringing the country to its knees financially and has this situation is being corrected, they seek to undermine the work being done with what amounts to nothing more than senseless babble.

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