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PUP Deputy Leader Cordel Hyde was next - and the Lake Independence Representative was quick to point out that what Saldivar calls a massive victory did not include Belize City:

Hon. Cordel Hype - PUP, Lake I
"I just want to say that the elections were on March 7th and that's history and PUP win Belize City. This budgets fails on the mightiest internal struggles of our time madam speaker, it offers nothing to end poverty. It offers no new jobs, no new homes, no antidote for the cost of living, no staunching of rising unemployment, no increase in the minimum wage, no increase in social programmes, no answer to the crime problems, no fundamental change in the way we do business, absolutely no new ideas. Madam speaker this budget as presented will not cut it, cannot cut it, it is not designed to cut it. It's called having your priorities in order madam speaker. What's more important than having your people educated? What's more important than having your people employed? What's more important than having your people alive? That's what's more important. We need to make sure that the people who really need the help, get the help, that is the definition of social justice you know. We no suppose to the perpetuate poverty, we are supposed to break out of that and make sure less people in poverty, that is the failure of this government you know because in their mind they feel it's how many elections you win but that is not the definition of success, the definition of success is how many people you lift out of poverty. It's not an impossible dream madam speaker, it's only a dream made impossible when elected politicians don't do what they are supposed to do and if the government feels like there are too big to heed the message of the people then they need to get out of the way because the power of the people is always greater than the people in power."