Comments on: Sympathy For My Mom http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/09/04/sympathy-for-my-mom/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:30:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Oliver Willis http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/09/04/sympathy-for-my-mom/#comment-62830 Oliver Willis Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:21:57 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5368#comment-62830 Yeah, I should have maybe written about it more even though my knowledge is just surface and tainted because my filter is my partisan mom. But in a nutshell, the PNP is the Dems and the JLP is the GOP, although in a country like Jamaica the JLP is not a very conservative party. You can't have "trickle down" economics voodoo in a country of mostly poor people. But what happened is the JLP outspent the PNP something like 10 to 1. $5million US in ads versus $400,000 is a lot in a country of only about 2.6 million. My mom thinks that the JLP has set itself up to fail because they've promised free health care and education to everyone but there's no way for Jamaica to actually pay for something like that. (I mean, according to Wikipedia the per capita GDP is $4,300 vs $43,000 for us and we don't have universal care -- yet). The PNP is a lot like the Dems from the 1970s-2006. Complacent and satisfied with their power, they get dumb and lazy and unprepared for the opposition to revitalize itself. Its the closest election in Jamaican history though, so the room for error is tiny as hell. Yeah, I should have maybe written about it more even though my knowledge is just surface and tainted because my filter is my partisan mom. But in a nutshell, the PNP is the Dems and the JLP is the GOP, although in a country like Jamaica the JLP is not a very conservative party. You can’t have “trickle down” economics voodoo in a country of mostly poor people. But what happened is the JLP outspent the PNP something like 10 to 1. $5million US in ads versus $400,000 is a lot in a country of only about 2.6 million. My mom thinks that the JLP has set itself up to fail because they’ve promised free health care and education to everyone but there’s no way for Jamaica to actually pay for something like that. (I mean, according to Wikipedia the per capita GDP is $4,300 vs $43,000 for us and we don’t have universal care — yet).

The PNP is a lot like the Dems from the 1970s-2006. Complacent and satisfied with their power, they get dumb and lazy and unprepared for the opposition to revitalize itself. Its the closest election in Jamaican history though, so the room for error is tiny as hell.

]]> By: Diamond LeGrande http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/09/04/sympathy-for-my-mom/#comment-62829 Diamond LeGrande Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:41:44 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5368#comment-62829 You know, from that article, I couldn't figure out a single debated issue, not even bullshit issues like ANWR drilling is here. Wikipedia totally lacked coverage of the election, which surprised me since Jamaica speaks English, mon. You know, from that article, I couldn’t figure out a single debated issue, not even bullshit issues like ANWR drilling is here. Wikipedia totally lacked coverage of the election, which surprised me since Jamaica speaks English, mon.

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