Jackass sey di worl' no level. Jackass sey some people a live eena whole heap a house, while nuff people a dead fi a one shack fi cotch dem head unda.

While many people are waiting with bated breath for Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's speech tomorrow, hoping that she will announce a dramatic increase in National Housing Trust (NHT) benefits, there are those for whom buying a house is nothing.

Apparently one of those is the fallen Eagle man, Paul Chen-Young, as The Financial Gleaner reported on Friday that (and I know that many of you STAR gazers watch no life unfold, page by page, so I am just helping out):

"Chen-Young had earlier been ordered to declare all his assets, and not to dispose of or deal with any of them without the court's approval.

Chen Young's assets

FINSAC Limited, government's white knight agency used to bail out financial firms during the sector's historic meltdown, recently discovered that Chen-Young had failed to disclose extensive assets in Florida, and that he transferred many of them in the days following the judgement.

The evidence presented to the court showed that through a company known as Florida Phoenix Finance Inc., Chen-Young acquired at least 170 different residential properties in three counties in Florida, including the affluent Palm Beach County.

Chen-Young is president, director and treasurer of the company, Solicitor General Michael Hylton, Q.C., noted in his April 13 application to the Supreme Court."

Take a deep breath

Forget about bailing out and all that for the moment. Just take a deep breath, form an 'O' with your mouth (not for those purposes, you naughty people) and say "one hundred and seventy". Say it again, a little louder. Then one more time, softly, with the true awe and respect that it is due.

For 170 residential properties in the great 'farin' (some in Palm Beach, no less), is not a number to be taken lightly. Think about driving through Portmore, past row after row of those boxes, some improved and some not. Now count in your mind and figure where 170 houses would be on the beloved I-95 (the local one from toll road roundabout to the turn-off to Caribbean Estates). Wherever the 170 stops, that is the amount of residential properties one man has in his possession. OK, maybe some have houses and some do not, but however you take it is a whole heap a Jah earth dat fe one fallen eagle pitch pon.

The world is not level at all, not when some people can be struggling away honestly to buy a one house, not even a big house but even a small apartment, just to have somewhere that 'dutty' landlord can't come and harass them, while one man has 170 residential properties in the US.

Bunch of rubbish

So all this thing that they tell people about working hard and keeping your nose to the wheel and not giving up on the prize is really a bunch of rubbish, then. Jackass knew something was in something when he saw people who work hard all their lives honestly die and their families struggle to bury them, but this one beats all.

One hundred and seventy 'residential properties'? In farin? Is how much NHT benefit dat? Half a Jamaica?

Jackass sey di worl' no level. Jackass sey e look like some people haffi go fly.