I know it's been Hammer Time for JA ever since Omar was put in charge of Finance. We get foreign exchange coming out the yeng yeng but all Omar can hear is 'you can't touch that.'

Haven't been home in a few years but from everything I've been told, if you are not driving a Pajero, a Benz or a Beemer, you are dregs of society. Therein lies part of the problem. As the country gags on over-consumption of foreign consumer goods we are shoved deeper into the abyss.

I still believe that a good Finance Minister could work wonders with what we have. Someone like wonder boy Michael Lee Chin (help me Canadians), is the right man for the job. Because, by and large, a country has to be run like a firm if it is to succeed.

Take our Fishermen as an example. Is there a more resourceful lot in the entire world than JA Fishermen who make their own pots, build their own canoes, wake up at crack of dawn to conquer the wide 'Argosso' seas fraught with danger and peril? Some never make it back home but one thing stands out like a sore thumb on this otherwise majestic landscape. Governments over the years have never had the vision to transform fishing in JA into the multi-billion dollar industry that it can be.

So I will say again...it's not that we are poor. It's simply that we don't know how to harness our God-given resources to make JA the most prosperous place on planet earth.