Ghana Is Under Tutelage Of Blind Leadership

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Mama 11 years ago

Say that again my brother. Even a blind man could have seen the mess in the country and come up with better solution than what Mahama has done so far.

Say that again my brother. Even a blind man could have seen the mess in the country and come up with better solution than what Mahama has done so far.
The Stallion 11 years ago

As for you people paa!!!
Nobody can rule Ghana, except an Ashanti man?

As for you people paa!!!
Nobody can rule Ghana, except an Ashanti man?
Kof 11 years ago

Unfortunately Nkrumah failed to fully use the Preventive Detention Act to Exterminate these (Asante/Akyems) offsprings of prostitution. They are now the CANCER to the socioeconomic development of our dear country. Ghana in ne ...
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Unfortunately Nkrumah failed to fully use the Preventive Detention Act to Exterminate these (Asante/Akyems) offsprings of prostitution. They are now the CANCER to the socioeconomic development of our dear country. Ghana in never going to reach the mountain top as long as there's traitors lives among us. Time for a referendum to decide on letting them form their own STATE OF ILLUSION. Then the drug Baron, Asantehene, can invite that DWARF to be the prime minister. They can fund their state by taxing the prostitution of Asante/Akyem women(as suggested by mp for Obuasi)
gg 11 years ago

I do believe prostitution is better than the trokosi toilet maggots who fuck their own daughters and make babies with them. What do you think kof?

I do believe prostitution is better than the trokosi toilet maggots who fuck their own daughters and make babies with them. What do you think kof?
Kof 11 years ago

Selling your own mothers, wives, sister, daughters, grand daughters cunt by the hour is Worse my friend. These SCUMS will do anything for money. Don't forget it's their own Hon. MP from Obuasi idea to tax their new "esteem" V ...
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Selling your own mothers, wives, sister, daughters, grand daughters cunt by the hour is Worse my friend. These SCUMS will do anything for money. Don't forget it's their own Hon. MP from Obuasi idea to tax their new "esteem" VENTURE
gg 11 years ago

So you and your ilk fucking your own daughters and having babies with them is better? Is that what you skunk tuberculosis ravaged akpeteshie drinker with ekoro fumes telling me?

So you and your ilk fucking your own daughters and having babies with them is better? Is that what you skunk tuberculosis ravaged akpeteshie drinker with ekoro fumes telling me?
Ghanaian Patriot 11 years ago

It's not that our leaders are not aware of the solutions you suggested. Some of these people are really well educated and know precisely what to do to mitigate the suffering of Ghanaians but privatization will reduce their i ...
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It's not that our leaders are not aware of the solutions you suggested. Some of these people are really well educated and know precisely what to do to mitigate the suffering of Ghanaians but privatization will reduce their influence and strangulation they have on the poor Ghanaians and they have not reach the point where they are ready to stop lording it over the masses, that is the problem. Our leaders are consumed by power.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 11 years ago

The first similes outlined in your introductory paragraphs do no justice to our Ewe brothers and sisters who make good rhythms by playing on the sides of their Agbadza drums; and the "blind" references insult the dignity of t ...
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The first similes outlined in your introductory paragraphs do no justice to our Ewe brothers and sisters who make good rhythms by playing on the sides of their Agbadza drums; and the "blind" references insult the dignity of the visually impaired brethren some of whom are very skilled and talented as drummers, surgeons and even pilots.
To be effective in denigrating the Mahama government, you should invoke more neutral, albeit extremely scatological imagery.
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

This man who parodied those of us with hard-earned doctorates has now plucked some backyard PhD law degree. Sadly, he can't argue! Sarpong did not state that he was deploying a simile regarding how Ewes drum! What about if he ...
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This man who parodied those of us with hard-earned doctorates has now plucked some backyard PhD law degree. Sadly, he can't argue! Sarpong did not state that he was deploying a simile regarding how Ewes drum! What about if he were to tell you that he had in mind Denkyira tradition of drumming! Here you are critiquing a metaphorical strectch - blindness - but you were here using your ONE Ewe classmate to make a case that Ewes are brilliant than any group in Ghana!
CARDINAL 11 years ago

Dr SAS by his posting has unintentionally introduced an issue of tribe and class hatred into an article which is purely economic. I hope he will reassess his response .

Dr SAS by his posting has unintentionally introduced an issue of tribe and class hatred into an article which is purely economic. I hope he will reassess his response .

Bishop 11 years ago

I think the Doctor was only introducing a little humor here, nothing to be taken too serious.

I think the Doctor was only introducing a little humor here, nothing to be taken too serious.
princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

THE DIRECTOR OF THE GHANA HEALTH SERVICE,DR KOFI DENKYIRA WANTS TO FUCK THE DENYIRAH BEAUTY QUEEN BY DRUMMING AGBADZA BEFORE THE DOCTORS GO ON STRIKE.

THE DIRECTOR OF THE GHANA HEALTH SERVICE,DR KOFI DENKYIRA WANTS TO FUCK THE DENYIRAH BEAUTY QUEEN BY DRUMMING AGBADZA BEFORE THE DOCTORS GO ON STRIKE.
Dr. SK 11 years ago

Dou you have to politicize this one too?

Dou you have to politicize this one too?
CARDINAL 11 years ago

My dear friend Dr SAS, thanks for reminding me that the Ewes play the side of the drum to make good music but that is an aberration to the norm about how a drum should be played. I did not know that Ewes drum on the sides of ...
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My dear friend Dr SAS, thanks for reminding me that the Ewes play the side of the drum to make good music but that is an aberration to the norm about how a drum should be played. I did not know that Ewes drum on the sides of drums.

As far as my blind simile, I apologize to the sensibilities of readers who think I insulted blind people because that was never my intention. I will never insult any blind person or for that matter any individual with a disability. A close relative was blind before she passed away and will never intentionally insult anybody with a disability.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 11 years ago

Don't take me too seriously!
I was just trying to stretch your similes a bit to make you more conscious of their implications and to pull your legs. Sometimes, I wonder how the blind feel about our use of their condition as ...
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Don't take me too seriously!
I was just trying to stretch your similes a bit to make you more conscious of their implications and to pull your legs. Sometimes, I wonder how the blind feel about our use of their condition as a metaphor for outright dumbness. I also wonder if those who say "Twene anim da ho a, yemmo nkyen" think about Agbadza or Agbeko drumming by our Ewe siblings.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

Dr, I know as an Akan, you understand the meaning of "Twene anim da ho a, yemmo nkyen"

It simply means we should tell it as it is regardless of the consequence.

Dr, I know as an Akan, you understand the meaning of "Twene anim da ho a, yemmo nkyen"

It simply means we should tell it as it is regardless of the consequence.
princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

Dr SAS a blind man was walking down the street in Houston with his dog when they stopped at the corner to wait for the passing traffic. The dog, then lifted up his leg and started pissing all over Dr SAS foot. As the dog fini ...
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Dr SAS a blind man was walking down the street in Houston with his dog when they stopped at the corner to wait for the passing traffic. The dog, then lifted up his leg and started pissing all over Dr SAS foot. As the dog finished, Dr SAS reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a treat and started waving it at the dog.

Cardinal a passerby saw all the events happening and was shocked. He ran up to Dr SAS the blind man and said “How the hell can you possibly reward a dog for pissing on your foot?” Dr SAS the blind man replied "I'm not rewarding him, I'm trying to find his head so I can kick him in his fuckin' ass."
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

The akomfem is in a dance of dunce!

The akomfem is in a dance of dunce!
princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

THE SADA PROJECT WAS CREATED SO THAT TREES HAVESTED FROM THE NORTH CAN BE USED FOR DRUMS FOR EXPORT BUT ITS NO IN LIMBO.

THE SADA PROJECT WAS CREATED SO THAT TREES HAVESTED FROM THE NORTH CAN BE USED FOR DRUMS FOR EXPORT BUT ITS NO IN LIMBO.
doom doom k 11 years ago

What do you guys want from this president just look at the usa they all went throuth this hardship b4 why r we so quick on everything pls just look at our nbren country b4 you say something

What do you guys want from this president just look at the usa they all went throuth this hardship b4 why r we so quick on everything pls just look at our nbren country b4 you say something

STEVOOO 11 years ago

THEY ARE NOT BLIND BUT WICKED, VERY WICKED INDEED ......LOOK AT HOW THEY LIVE LIKE MILLIONAIRES AND YET HAVE DESTROYED OUR ECONOMY AND BROUGHT GHANA DOWN TO ITS KNEES.....

THEY ARE NOT BLIND BUT WICKED, VERY WICKED INDEED ......LOOK AT HOW THEY LIVE LIKE MILLIONAIRES AND YET HAVE DESTROYED OUR ECONOMY AND BROUGHT GHANA DOWN TO ITS KNEES.....
princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

It was a hot day outside..so the three nuns decided to take off there clothes and bolt the door to there church.

Since there was stain glass windows, nobody could see inside, and the door was locked.

The nuns were busy ...
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It was a hot day outside..so the three nuns decided to take off there clothes and bolt the door to there church.

Since there was stain glass windows, nobody could see inside, and the door was locked.

The nuns were busy doing renovations when a Thud Thud Thud hit the door.

The shocked nun ran to the door and pulled her clothes up over herself, when she asked "Who is it"?

The reply from behind the door was "Its the blind man".

The 3 nuns looked relieved when they heard he was the blind man, no sight no problem they figured, and let him in.

Upon opening the door, in entered a burly man in coveralls and said "Holy shit sister nice tits!! ... Where do you want your blinds? "

THE BLIND DRUMMER,THE BLIND PILOT ARE ALL MEMBERS OF REV DUNCAN CHURCH .
IT HAS BECOME A NATION OF FREE BEES.
WE HAVE BECOME LIKE THE STUPID NUNS IN A CHURCH SHOWING OUR NAKEDNESS FOR THE OUTSIDE WORLD TO SEE.
Sir Rider Haggard 11 years ago

This pitiful, hapless insecure little monkey called sarpong would not rest until an ashanti rules this country, and as if this country and the people in it, are entrusted to him and his tribal apes! Unbelievable! Any thing el ...
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This pitiful, hapless insecure little monkey called sarpong would not rest until an ashanti rules this country, and as if this country and the people in it, are entrusted to him and his tribal apes! Unbelievable! Any thing else, anybody else, from any other tribe, is condemned, vilified to the bone!

A corky, repugnant, abominable hypocrite as he is, this little pitiful nonentity thinks he can insidiously influence and shape public opinion by aggrandizing himself, by degrading personalities that are thousands of miles ahead of him!! As if he was not around wringgling in his hole in Houston slums when Kufour was president for 8 good years!

This little monkey is just running too loose with no regard for human dignity! It's amazing what kind of creatures women dump on this planet.

Sir Rider Haggard
concerned ghanaian 11 years ago

This writer wants Ghanaians to look narrowly at our predicament as we always sort to do.

By his argument, the patient's(Ghana) malaise is natural and not man made.

Following our independence, we were manufacturing all s ...
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This writer wants Ghanaians to look narrowly at our predicament as we always sort to do.

By his argument, the patient's(Ghana) malaise is natural and not man made.

Following our independence, we were manufacturing all sorts of consumer goods in our country. The nation wreckers we are, set out to distabalise and sell off the status quo through the NLM coup of 1966.

Since then, we have resorted to telling lies,manufacturing lies, defending the in-defensible and making loud noise instead of examining our plight in our very behaviour and attitude.

What this writer fails to tell us is how quoting prices in dollars instead of our cedi affects the demand for the dollar.

We do not value our cedi and yet want its value to be competitive and retain its value!!!!!!!!!!!

God Bless Ghana
CARDINAL 11 years ago

You made a good point about the dollarization of economy as a contributing factor in the cedi decline which also affect the economy.

That is another good point to add to the three I mentioned and have made the same point y ...
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You made a good point about the dollarization of economy as a contributing factor in the cedi decline which also affect the economy.

That is another good point to add to the three I mentioned and have made the same point you are making here about five days ago when Duncan Williams prayed or commandered the cedi to stop falling.

I did not use the dollarizatiin point here because this article is about cutting the governornment expenses to balance the budget instead of taxing the people and did not see the dollarization point as being relevant here.
Dumegah Prosper JNR 11 years ago

How does the blind drummer snslogy go in tanderm with the over bloated government size??

How does the blind drummer snslogy go in tanderm with the over bloated government size??
CARDINAL 11 years ago

Dumega, you lost the simile and as usual showing your lack of reasoning and analytical skills

The metaphor of a blindman and the leadeship is that, they are both missing their targets. The blindman inadvertently, the gover ...
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Dumega, you lost the simile and as usual showing your lack of reasoning and analytical skills

The metaphor of a blindman and the leadeship is that, they are both missing their targets. The blindman inadvertently, the government due to lack of courage.
Kojo T 11 years ago

Simile is different from a metaphor. You used similes. Then tutelage is not leadership but teaching. What you wanted to say is Ghana is being led by people who behave as if they are blind not being TAUGHt like blind people. A ...
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Simile is different from a metaphor. You used similes. Then tutelage is not leadership but teaching. What you wanted to say is Ghana is being led by people who behave as if they are blind not being TAUGHt like blind people. Any way your economic analysis gets an F . The problenm is the failure of the so called private sector that is weak . They are not entrepreneural and have no capital. Like you they propound booklong long theories which they do not practice
CARDINAL 11 years ago

Illiterate fool, you want to explain English to me when you don't even know the difference between THOUGHT and TAUGHT. Where you used TAUGHT, the right word should be THOUGHT.

Illiterate fool, who told you tutelage means t ...
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Illiterate fool, you want to explain English to me when you don't even know the difference between THOUGHT and TAUGHT. Where you used TAUGHT, the right word should be THOUGHT.

Illiterate fool, who told you tutelage means teaching only? You dumb half-baked semi-literate. Tutelage also means guardianship and and any literate person understands that tutelage as used here means GUARDIANSHIP, you dummy.

You don't even understand common English words and you want to engage me in technical subject like Economics? Do you know how private companies raise money?
CARDINAL 11 years ago

Kojo Trokosi, where did you learn your English? Did you even do English literature at the "O" Levels let alone at the "A" Level? Simile and Metaphor can be used interchangeably since they are synonymous with each other.

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Kojo Trokosi, where did you learn your English? Did you even do English literature at the "O" Levels let alone at the "A" Level? Simile and Metaphor can be used interchangeably since they are synonymous with each other.

Read the definition for both words, you illiterate asshole.

Metaphor is a type of analogy and is closely related to other rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via association, comparison or resemblance including allegory, hyperbole, and simile.

In simpler terms, a metaphor compares two objects/things without using the words "like" or "as".

sim·i·le/?s?m?li/ Show Spelled [sim-uh-lee] Show IPA
noun
1. a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.” Compare metaphor.
2. an instance of such a figure of speech or a use of words exemplifying it.

ernest 11 years ago

that is the best solution , but hmmmmm

that is the best solution , but hmmmmm
Dready 11 years ago

wide opened eye very brainy justice only a noisy critic. Cannot win election but always ready to challenge anything and everybody. Its cheap isnt it. Unfortunate tribalist , sensatioonalist egoistic character ç. This can not ...
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wide opened eye very brainy justice only a noisy critic. Cannot win election but always ready to challenge anything and everybody. Its cheap isnt it. Unfortunate tribalist , sensatioonalist egoistic character ç. This can not win you election for you to drum well .learn hard mr sarpo. Is not too late .put your angered frustration away this may help than this irrelevant show TK
Togbe Afede 11 years ago

That is why Northerners are filthy and disgusting. They reason with emotions instead of their brains. Toilet carrying and kayayei will forever be your work.

That is why Northerners are filthy and disgusting. They reason with emotions instead of their brains. Toilet carrying and kayayei will forever be your work.
Kwadwo Poku 11 years ago

This is what happens when a criminal charts the course of a democracy. We have a constitution that mirrors the political philosophy of a military dictator, as a result the nation lacks the structural institutions a sovereign ...
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This is what happens when a criminal charts the course of a democracy. We have a constitution that mirrors the political philosophy of a military dictator, as a result the nation lacks the structural institutions a sovereign nation can thrive on. What a basket case Ghana has become. Keep writing and we won't relent in learning pal.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

Thank you my friend.

Thank you my friend.
Abeeku Mensah 11 years ago

As you Justice Sarpong and others enjoy your lives in Houston Texas and other states or countries around the globe, you do so understanding your obligations and responsibilities to paying city and state taxes and the national ...
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As you Justice Sarpong and others enjoy your lives in Houston Texas and other states or countries around the globe, you do so understanding your obligations and responsibilities to paying city and state taxes and the national federal income tax. You and or your kind in the Diaspora, however, mean-spiritedly incite people here in Ghana to engage in chaos and hooliganism because you yearn for governments in power in Ghana that is of your tribal preference and not because of good governance. If some in the Diaspora will spend much time behaving and or encourage others of your elk to behave the ways you do in your various countries of current domicile Ghana would be peaceful and slowly inch towards national development. Instead most of you engage in trifling tribal base hypocritical and intellectually dishonest assessment of governments while you turn a blind eye to the evils of your preferred past governments who failed more so for the long term effects of their folly than for the overall failures at governing.
As I have said before and will say again, I have never seen Rawlings as a model for African leadership. Not even in Ghana would our standard for the classification of the educated elite class ever include a "O" or "A" level graduate of the J.J. Rawlings type. The Atta Mills and J.A. Kufour kind is and should be our main basis for serious comparative analysis. Where in the Western European continent or in the USA or Canada do you find nations whose entire telecommunications infrastructure to be in the hands and ownership of a foreign government or entity? This happened in Ghana under an Oxford educated Kufour who may have obtained all the credentials to impress some of you degree seeking clowns but have shown lack of critical thinking and the requisite foresight to have been a leader of a developing nation like Ghana. You guys can never understand anything meaningful because you live and die by the measure of how much money you make and the lifestyles that foster the wrong impression amongst Ghana's impressionable youth. It is sad there are no adults left in Ghana and or live with those in the Diaspora full of classroom earned credentials but lacking the ability to think in the absence of a master or a lecturer in the classroom.
Governments in relatively superior democratic practicing western nations have not sold government owned properties at fire sale prices and or leased them to be abused as we did and continue to do in Ghana but by looking out for the best pricing and usage for the benefit of society. In Ghana we have loud mouth fools in the NDC and NPP who day in and day out justify evil deeds in the name of political party and or out of tribal loyalties and those of you in the Diaspora foolishly and smugly encourage the absence of wisdom in our leaders because they happen to be your tribesmen or from your preferred political party. Kufour and his family are rumored to own shares in Accra Mall, in hotels and other land properties, he continues to get free trips outside Ghana on Ghana’s dime, cars and other assets and yet none of you tribal zealots see anything wrong with the picture except jump J.J. Rawlings for his wrong doings as well. If Kufour had all the money prior to occupying Ghana’s highest office he darn sure did not show us and yet every living fools would want every thinking Ghanaian to believe he earned what he own. Would a man with love of nation the likes of Kufour and or J.J. Rawlings, Atta Mills and others not forgo these trinkets they get from the broke government that made them all rich in their stinking lives? How many of the unfortunate death of some of Ghanaians should we lay squarely at the feet of all these thieving selfish leaders?
CARDINAL 11 years ago

You are so daft any time I butt heads with you, I have to recalibrate my brains for having a discourse with an imbecile. You moron live in Wisconsin, USA.

Where in USA or Canada do you know of that the federal or state ...
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You are so daft any time I butt heads with you, I have to recalibrate my brains for having a discourse with an imbecile. You moron live in Wisconsin, USA.

Where in USA or Canada do you know of that the federal or state governments own telecommunication companies? Foreign ownership of telecommunication companies is not against the laws in USA or Canada.

Why do you moron see tribalism everywhere. Every comment you make on Ghanaweb always is tinged with tribalism. What has tribalism got to deal with this article, douchebag? Why don't you debate on the issues raised in this article and stop ranting about tribes, you foodian comedian.
Moses 11 years ago

Do you remember Atubuga and the other corrupt judges at the supreme court? They collected their bribes and ruled in favor of Mahama.

But their names will forever remain in the Hall of SHAME of legal practice.

Is it su ...
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Do you remember Atubuga and the other corrupt judges at the supreme court? They collected their bribes and ruled in favor of Mahama.

But their names will forever remain in the Hall of SHAME of legal practice.

Is it surpring that each day someone is openly stealing large sums of money with absolutely no fear? If the judiciary is corrupt, then criminals must have the best environment on this earth to steal.

GYEEDA, Woyome, SADA, Ayariga, Mornah, Abuga pele, Ibrahim mahama and the list goes on!
Ceeboy Dangerman 11 years ago

Long ago I told Ghanaians to be mindful of spending. But because we are cry babies we have missed the boat. So we are sinking fast. Ghana could over come the tragedy by working harder, save more, cut down on unnecessary spend ...
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Long ago I told Ghanaians to be mindful of spending. But because we are cry babies we have missed the boat. So we are sinking fast. Ghana could over come the tragedy by working harder, save more, cut down on unnecessary spending, buried the dead with less money, put an end to foolish pride and use resources wisely.
DAN 11 years ago

MAHAMA DONT CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS THE MAN LOVE TO HIT GHANA PEOPLE WITH TAXES LEFT AND RIGHT,THERE HAVE BEEN NO TAX THAT MAHAMA DIDNOT LIKE IN FACT HE IS LOOKING FOR MORE WAYS TO RAISE TAXES AND HE IS DOING IT WHILE OUR ECONO ...
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MAHAMA DONT CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS THE MAN LOVE TO HIT GHANA PEOPLE WITH TAXES LEFT AND RIGHT,THERE HAVE BEEN NO TAX THAT MAHAMA DIDNOT LIKE IN FACT HE IS LOOKING FOR MORE WAYS TO RAISE TAXES AND HE IS DOING IT WHILE OUR ECONOMY IS IN THE GUTTER,WHICH FURTHER CHOKE THE ECONOMY AND DESTROY GHANA BUSNISS AND ANY POTINTIAL JOB CREATION .WHO IN THIS ENTIRE WORLD DOES SUCH FOOLISH THING RAISING TAXES
WHILE THE ECONOMY BARLY FUNCTIONS?DOES MAHAMA UNDERSTAND HOW ECONOMY EVEN WORKS?
Okofo 11 years ago

Sarpong, you are an idiot for using THE BLIND analogy. If you had thought carefully about your write-up, you would have realized that being blind only affects your sight and bears no co-relation to your abilities to be a visi ...
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Sarpong, you are an idiot for using THE BLIND analogy. If you had thought carefully about your write-up, you would have realized that being blind only affects your sight and bears no co-relation to your abilities to be a visionary. the blind are as good as the sighted in their jobs if they know well what they do.
AKWELE 11 years ago

It is sad to note that whilst some people are suffering, others are enjoying.

It is sad to note that whilst some people are suffering, others are enjoying.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

I am Sorry you did not learn what is called simile or Metaphor in English literature. Blind as used in this analogy is not to despice the blind but it is a figure of speech.

I know blind people are as smart if not more th ...
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I am Sorry you did not learn what is called simile or Metaphor in English literature. Blind as used in this analogy is not to despice the blind but it is a figure of speech.

I know blind people are as smart if not more than people with sight but I don't think even you goody-goody two shoes will allow a blind man to do brain surgery here.

The point is that you will not allow a mechanic to operate on you.

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