Without Government

Our fore parents had no one to give them anything. Most of us on St. Kitts Nevis came through ancestors who were brought to this part of the world against their will. No one gave them anything. The colonizers took what they had, including their energy,away from them. Somehow, through their own initiatives they made use of opportunities that came their way and ended up owning property.
 I grew up in a home that my father and mother owned, inherited from his father who built it. This is the story of many persons of my generation. Today things have changed. Our young people inherit nothing because their parents do not own anything. The houses they live in belong to the banks. I have learned not to envy people for what they appear to have, because it is clear to me, that, were they to lose their jobs tomorrow we will then see what they really and truly own.
But whose fault is it that we own nothing? Why have we arrived at a position at which we bow before parliamentarians, begging, pleading butt-kissing for a grudgingly tiny piece of land somewhere, only to be told "you are on file"? Why are our children  "on file" when most of their parents grew up in houses that their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents owned in Mc. Knight, Up De village, in New Town and Down Camps?
Why?
Take fort instance, my family still has a house that all nine of us grew up in on Thibou Avenue in Mc. Knight, but all of us who now happen to own property were once "on file". Could we have gotten property without going to government for anything? Yes, we could have, but it would have meant putting our resources together. It would have meant coming together as a family and saying to each other: look, daddy and mommy left this house for all of us. Let us get together and do something with it. Let us not go into any debt to owe the bank for thirty year mortgages. let us come together, for the land is big enough for each of us to have our own space in this place so that we can save our resources instead of paying either years of rent or years of mortgage, and in so doing we will be able to have enough money to send our sons and daughters to college without having to borrow so much money for them to go be engineers, doctors,  and specialists in the fields of their choice. Instead of doing this most of us are bowing down to government officials, pleading with them to please permit us to have a piece of the land  that we were born in, with a prayer and a hope that they will get to our "file" before the government changes.