The Ed­i­tor: Tout­ing “We get­ting it done” is words in the wind. Who is be­liev­ing this claim?

We can choose to ig­nore the re­al­i­ty of the sit­u­a­tion fac­ing every con­cerned cit­i­zen and hope they be­lieve this un­found­ed un­mer­it­ed claim that... “We get­ting it done?”

Let me be clear I am not an­ti- gov­ern­ment or an­ti any­thing ex­cept a lack of per­for­mance and ac­count­abil­i­ty by those we elect­ed to rep­re­sent our best in­ter­est but can we be­lieve... “We get­ting it done.”

The whole so­ci­ety as we knew it as chil­dren grow­ing up in T&T is so frag­ment­ed now that we have come to dis­like each oth­er whether, black, white, chi­nese, syr­i­an, mixed or oth­er but we get­ting it done.

Take the pub­lic ser­vice ex­pe­ri­ence: When one vis­its any of the Gov­ern­ment of­fices; Ques­tion: ARE we greet­ed with a wel­come smile and with a may we help you. You would think they are do­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic a fa­vor but “we get­ting it done”.

Take road in­dis­ci­pline: Dri­vers have grown to be­lieve any­thing goes. No cour­tesy, no road man­ners. At pedes­tri­an cross­ings cars don’t stop to give way to those wish­ing to cross but “we get­ting it done.”

Pot hole city: Every­where in and around the city and out­ly­ing dis­tricts Large Pot Holes are again very vis­i­bly. Who is in charge of road main­te­nance but—“we get­ting it done.”

Food prices: The unchecked rise in food prices for ba­sic items have made it im­pos­si­ble for the av­er­age cit­i­zen to meet ba­sic needs.

In­ter­na­tion­al vis­i­tors have won­dered why T&T with it’s large un­cul­ti­vat­ed land is not a food grow­ing par­adise with­out the mas­sive im­port food bill but “we get­ting it done.”

Crime: Crime is on the rise oc­cur­ring every­day, any­time of day any­where with cit­i­zen hav­ing to se­vere­ly mod­i­fy their lifestyles to ac­com­mo­date the risk fac­tor to their per­son but “we get­ting it done.”

Busi­ness clo­sures: Many well es­tab­lished long stand­ing com­pa­nies with sig­nif­i­cant num­bers of em­ploy­ees are clos­ing cre­at­ing anx­i­ety for those many em­ploy­ees with lit­tle op­por­tu­ni­ty to seek oth­er em­ploy­ment but “we get­ting it done.”

Lead­ers with­out lead­er­ship skills can­not be ex­pect­ed to be per­form­ers.

Pick­ing in­di­vid­u­als on­ly on the ba­sis of po­lit­i­cal af­fil­i­a­tion and NOT com­pe­tence will on­ly re­sult in con­tin­u­ing poor re­sults but “we get­ting it done”............

Would some­one en­light­en the cit­i­zens “Where We get­ting it done.”

Thank God we are a Hap­py Peo­ple with emp­ty bel­lies and less con­fi­dence in our fu­ture !

In­di­vid­u­als blind­ed by po­lit­i­cal bias will prob­a­bly dis­agree but if those dis­sent­ed in­di­vid­u­als would be hon­est they will agree “We ain’t get­ting it done.”

God Bless T&T.

Gor­don Laugh­lin

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