SOCA (standard:non fiction, 933 words)
Author: Juggernaut	Added: Nov 06 2010	Views/Reads: 2787/1930	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
An essay on failed economic model in a Caribbean country.

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published in prestigious journals. 

There is a disconnect between the research work and Farmers'
implementation to reap the benefit since the small farmers have no 
money to buy essential inputs for cropping and the funds in government 
estates can only support the large bureaucracy to run the farms with no 
money left for actual farming. 

The Soca principles started to rundown the sugar and other businesses in
the island. The small farmers stopped farming. The previous estate 
owners brought back their land at cut rate prices from the foreclosed 
government farms and factories. The research staff known for their 
rhetoric beginning to doubt whether Soca principles would work. After 
two decades, they decided to jump the soca ship and abandon 5H club 
they practically created from hype, hoopla, hot air, hogwash and 
hypocrisy. 

Campbell joined a large multinational company outside the island.
Maxwell immigrated to North America. Althea started a free enterprise 
no nonsense business to export exotic flowers. Ken took the failure of 
Soca principles seriously and quit his job to become a Rasta (followers 
of Rastafarian beliefs) living in the mountains with a Rastafari 
commune. Blake took a position as a consultant for large corporation in 
America. Only, Borrell remained at his job still wondering where the 
Soca went wrong. 

The government after two decades of economic decay from implementing
Soca principles went back to drawing board and came out with a new and 
improved version of Soca. Under revised Soca economic plan, the newly 
recruited technocrats and bureaucrats, the new members of 5 H club 
exempted the poor from the plan to guarantee its success. 


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