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When a trillion dollar budget does not translate into equitable impact it cannot be people first
['Stabroek News']
Stabroek News
He praises its social investments, wage increases, and cash transfers as proof of people-centred governance, but sidesteps the uncomfortable truth that the scale of the budget does not translate into equitable impact.
A trillion dollar budget means little if those who need relief most remain trapped in shrinking purchasing power and social stagnation.
The second anomaly lies in Dr. Depoo’s framing of wealth redistribution.
By the time funds filter to ordinary citizens through wages or social transfers, inflation has already diluted their real value.
Dr. Depoo’s narrative conveniently overlooks this dynamic, producing a feel good script detached from the empirical realities of market behaviour and income decay.