IF ANYBODY apart from Mr. Seaga had said the money spent on the highway to Mandeville could be better spent on minor country roads, that person could be excused for ignorance of the concept of opportunity or alternate costs in the face of scarce resources; but not Mr. Seaga, who was schooled at Harvard and has been a practitioner of a species of economics known as finance.
Mr. Seaga's statement is purely political and mischievous, it must therefore be concluded. Mr. Seaga knows that if a government has only, say, $1-million to spend on roads, many people would benefit in ways too numerous to mention by expending the $1-million on a main or arterial road instead of on a minor road which is used by just a few.
Mr. Seaga should not preach what he certainly does not practise, so that the country and the rest of the world can remember him more as a statesman and less as a politician. He should retract the statement.
