Bridgetown.
A nothing Budget is how the Leader of the Opposition Owen Arthur, described Tuesday's Financial Statement and Budgetary Proposals presented Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler
.In a fiery three hour reply to to the Financial Statement and Budgetary Proposals yesterday, Arthur a former Minister of Finiance said that Sinckler's proposals comprised of bogus accounting and was a leap in the dark.
Arthur accused the Goverment of rhetoric on most issues. He stated that Barbadians has been fed a diet of misinformation about the true state of the economy.
According to Arthur, the Budget offer little relief to Barbadians, whose standard of living had plummeted.
"Our people are suffering,they can't make ends meet.Where there were once optimism, there is now despair,our sturdy resilient middleclass is now becoming the working poor", Arthur said.
"The working class has now been reduced to a new poverty and confronted daily by measures that bite into their standard of living", he added.
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