The cur­rent labour sit­u­a­tion bor­ders on mad­ness. The grandiose delu­sions, or delu­sions of grandeur, of these union lead­ers are dan­ger­ous for all of T&T. The US is cur­rent­ly fac­ing a debt cri­sis that would, un­doubt­ed­ly, lead to a fur­ther de­val­u­a­tion of the US dol­lar on the world mar­ket. Since the TT dol­lar is in­ces­tu­ous­ly tied to the US dol­lar, our eco­nom­ic woes will de­lay fur­ther growth.

These same unions that pro-test­ed the pro­posed prop­er­ty tax now ex­pect the Gov­ern­ment to make mon­ey ap­pear from no-where to feed their greed. Coun­tries world­wide are fight­ing their eco­nom­ic down­turns by belt-tight­en­ing and aus­ter­i­ty mea­sures, but in T&T union lead­ers want more than five per cent in an econ­o­my where growth is crawl­ing and stag­ger­ing. The main dri­ver of our econ­o­my-con­struc­tion-has paused and cre­at­ed the byprod­ucts-un­em­ploy­ment and crime-but union lead­ers want to shut down the coun­try to prove that their greed ex­ceeds their need.

Mad­ness.

Don Cum­mings

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