"Jamaica Falls 11 Places On Human Development Index, Risks Demotion AND Jumps 8 Places In Global Competitiveness Index. The rich is getting richer and the poor is getting poorer."
It is imperative that we understand what a cooperative democracy is. We need to fashion a new way of thinking about wealth and defining wealth. Wealth without welbeing is social poverty. We are not advocating redistribution of wealth we are advocating re-definition of wealth and ensuring that resources are consumed in a sustainable manner so your grandchildren children do not have to carry the burden.
Social poverty speaks to your mental and psychological wellbeing and can be attributed some of the heinous crimes we witnessed in our country. No society can afford all its citizens material wealth but at the same time no society should prevent individual from achieving their full potential. However, material wealth cannot be at the expense of social wealth, hence the goal of a co-operative democracy is to strike a balance between each through the practice of sustainable economic development.
Simply put, under a Cooperative Democracy the most venerable of citizen is the guaranteed the rights to seek justice in a court of laws when governments; their project, programs and policy is deemed to have contradict their rights as citizen instead of getting a bullet to the head. Guaranteeing rights is more than putting it on the books, it is building the institutions and funding these institution to protect fundamental rights.-Obama Doctrine.
We aren’t the first to fight for progressive change and we won’t be the last.
Apr 22, 2015 — We are a movement of Jamaicans both at Home and Abroad who are willing to fight for real and lasting change. This isn't for everyone — we're Changing Jamaica Through Leadership, and we're proud of it. If you’re someone who'd rather get involved than sit back, if you refuse to be cynical about what we can get done together, then you should be part of this at www.ourjamaicavote.org
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