Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit used his budget address earlier this week to caution Dominicans against taking the country’s recovery lightly and not exercising financial prudence as a result.
“We have achieved much in the last year and… if we resist the urge to give away what we do not have, by exercising fiscal prudence, we are creating the building blocks for the more prosperous Dominica which we, our children and grandchildren will enjoy,” he said.
Cautioning against an over-reliance on the government at a time when it has already done all that it could feasibly do given the widespread damage caused by Hurricane Maria, he stressed the need for prudent financial management, extending from Government to corporate entities and to citizens.
“Let us accept that every individual has a responsibility for the management of one’s own wealth and finances,” he stated.
Echoing the cautions of economist Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the United States Federal Reserve in his book, The Age of Turbulence, the Prime Minister warned: “a Government can take a country so far, so fast, that very soon the citizens forget how far they have come, in how short a time and start demanding more than the Government can reasonably or possibly deliver.”
Prime Minister Skerrit emphasised and repeated the statement “we have survived,” as he painted a picture of hope after Hurricane Maria ravaged the country.
“Given our circumstances of ten months ago [in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria], no-one would have expected that a budgetary presentation would have been possible,” he said, adding that “this Government is known to be one that has made prudent and strong financial management, a priority. As we seek to build resilience, this will continue to underpin the overall resilience strategy.”
You know I was going through my cloth closet today and notice; I discover I have a three piece suite the same as that clown Roosevelt is sporting. I have decided to get rid of it fearing it might turn me as stupid as Roosevelt oui!
I am going to put it in one of the green unwanted cloths containers on the side of the streets, some poor person who do not know Roosevelt can dress with it!
I used the hear that Skerrit is mad.I am proving it now.After the man has destroyed the country by creating a dependency syndrome, in his mind, he sees it as progress.What a wicked man he is.You are a failure Skerrit.All your supporters are poorer now than they were 18years ago.
Where The Wicked Rule The People Mourn!!
This DLP is a Wicked and Evil Party!!!
“caution Dominicans against taking the country’s recovery lightly and not exercising financial prudence. ”
Roosevelt, once again I have to command you to shut up, just shut up! If you had the knowledge in regards to financial prudence; Dominica would not have gone backwards under you in the past eighteen years. If you knew anything about financial prudence you would not have spent more than half of a billion dollars installing landing lights on the Melville Airport talking crap about night landing which never happened!
That over five hundred million dollars could have built a new International Airport, but are so stupid you make Gonzales make a fool out of you. You are trying to impress Dominicans that only you are careful enough to rule Dominica.
Roosevelt: Prudence in this case simply means the ability to govern, and discipline oneself by the use of reason, that is simply sagacity, or shrewdness in management skill.
If you had any special government management skills…
Skerrit this song is for you.I love this man so much.
Captain the ship is sinking
Captain the seas are rough
The gas tank almost empty,no electricity
The oil pressure reading low
Shall we abandoned Skerrit,or shall we exit
We surely know now, Skerrit don’t tell me what to do
Good Riddance.
Where The Wicked Rule The People Mourn,!!!
This DLP is a Wicked and Evil Party,!!!
as skeritt mentioned that people should stop depending on gov. this brings to mind a question I had to ask .All these houses he has or promises to build he has not told the nation under what arrangement are the occupants moving in are they tenants moving into government owned houses with reduced rent payable according to their means or living at tax payers expense with utilities paid and maintenance free and their only responsibility is ”thanks my pm for my house” as long as they vote D LP ?
Boy I’ll tell you all what. This dictator fake doctor called skeritt is one very very evil man. You want the population to depend on you and manipulate their votes that’s why you don’t create jobs but when the bankroll getting to high for you to handle you crying foul and talking about over reliance on the government? You well glad Maria pass for you to blame everything on Gods work like the country was doing well before Maria. All that poor hurricane (which is your main focal blame poor these days) ever did was expose your rotten government’s faults. So is Maria that make you cannot fix the Hillsborough bridge and still have all them Bailey briges all over the island? thought it was Erika that did that did the damage. This show that you don’t care about the country. Erika’s damag9has yet to be addressed so what Maria you talking about?
But Mr. PM, you said you would take care of all of us. You promise. You even told us when the UWP come in our village trying to tell us how they can make our life better that we should tell them We don’t want to hear. I heard you with my own ears.
So what is that now you saying? You trick us man? You trying to leave us holding the dirty end of the stick?
Never ever trust a thief, I hope you all learned you lesson.
Skerrit is a major failure, and some Dominicans, are just to a shame to admit it
F-
unqualified for the position, He is a mad man
The creator of the Red Clinic says the reliance of the citizens on the government has to stop. Take note all you DLP supporters, what he is saying that even the small crumbs his table will have to stop. No more money!! In conclusion, you don’t have to support YOUR PM anymore because there won’t be little presents from him any longer. I just hope all you are putting your thinking cap on now and vote for the future of your country rather than for the overflowing bank accounts for a selected few.
With such distortions, this man has completely lost his sense of reality. Only a delusional state of mind will compel a person to spew such a mixture of falsity and gibberish. The daily pressures and demands of the job have obliterated any little rationality that he had left. Skerrit lives in an alternative world of fantasy. The country is a near lifeless economy where joblessness has become a national scandal. Any savings the average man had has long been depleted. Mendicancy has sadly become normal and vagrancy is rapidly increasing. Money is a very scarcity commodity to too many. Do something, Mr. PM, to resurrect the economy in order for people to help themselves. You live in such opulence that you can no longer relate to the suffering of poor people. Your comments clearly illustrate this. It’s time for you to go on a permanent vacation and leave the governance of the country in more capable hands. Your rhetoric has just landed on barren soil.
Wow! I can’t believe what I’m reading. The PM is, “cautioning against an over-reliance on the government”. I thought you created the RED CLINIC which is a product of over-reliance and dependency on the government? In addition to this, what about the thousands of overseas voters who “rely” on the government for their Airplane tickets to come down and vote. Will you cease this practice you created of over-reliance on the government?
Really is this man for true? We have achieved much last year he says. Would he care to tell us what that might be?? Skerrit, you have achieved nothing last year, the same way you have achieved nothing in the past 18 years. You will go down in history as an incompetent looser and a notorious liar.
Pm honestly crap you talking it have people in the reserve that lost everything they had cause they are not all you supporters nothing is not yet done to help them tomuch children talk grow up