"They have to go, but not to be replaced by their JLP counterparts."

Well Errol, that is exactly the issue I wanted Mutty to explore when Eddie said that there was a "net gain" in jobs 1 year after he had laid off the 20,000 civil servants. But his kid gloves were on, what can I tell you.

In any event, it is fine to talk about "strong medicine" but there is the very real issue of social chaos that has to be considered before going back to solutions from another time. I would be worried, as a leader, about the social consequences of mass layoffs, regardless of what 'P' these government employees might be, in today's Jamaica.