From developing to developed Ghana

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• Agyeman 12 years ago

  Keep dreamin of a developed Ghana.57yrs since independence and we're still crawling with our trokosi attitudes.Liberia next door has been a nation for 175yrs yet look at it.I hate to bust our own bubble but this developed Gha ...
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  Keep dreamin of a developed Ghana.57yrs since independence and we're still crawling with our trokosi attitudes.Liberia next door has been a nation for 175yrs yet look at it.I hate to bust our own bubble but this developed Ghana shall remain just that-a dream.Our shallow mindsets and our sick attitudes won't allow a developed Ghana.

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• Dadwen 12 years ago

  It is yet another day... another day that one of Ghana's brightest and finest writes a long article which is all over the map but ends up saying virtually nothing.
  
  First of all, "what is an ideal society?" is a question th ...
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  It is yet another day... another day that one of Ghana's brightest and finest writes a long article which is all over the map but ends up saying virtually nothing.
  
  First of all, "what is an ideal society?" is a question that is not even worth asking because there is no such thing anywhere on the face of this earth and there never will be one. This is really the type of question that belongs to an academic dissertation and nowhere else.
  
  Secondly, Ghanaians are not loafers and are not therefore looking for an utopian, welfare-state type of society nor a government that will take care of everybody. What Ghanaians are looking for are responsible governments who should know why they go into public service in the first place...to genuinely serve so as to leave Ghana a better place than they found it and to not just enrich themselves at the expense of the average Kofi and Amma...to put badly-needed policies and services in place for Ghanaians to have fairly decent and enriching lives.
  
  And by the way, although no country in the world can be fully self-sufficient, there would have been no reason for us to borrow much from abroad if our governments, both past and present, could keep their pilfering-hands off our coffers. And that does not apply to only one side of the house. It applies to all our representatives on both sides of the house and even to us as individuals. We are in this together.

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• Kojo T 12 years ago

  Mr Agyemang argues for a free market but runs away from it. What Africa needs is a MIXED economy. That is what Nkrumah was doing and we labelled him a communist. In central planning development is directed at the areas most e ...
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  Mr Agyemang argues for a free market but runs away from it. What Africa needs is a MIXED economy. That is what Nkrumah was doing and we labelled him a communist. In central planning development is directed at the areas most efficiently required. As Leynes said ina depression , it pays for government to employ poeple to dig holes and at the end of the day fill them up. The problem with us is that we think with our hearts instead of heads and cannot see it as an immpossibility for a person on a dollar a day to be in the free market competing with Walmart and the big boys

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• Dadwen 12 years ago

  Kojo,
  Thanks for your feedback and I do appreciate that. In any event, you hit the nail right on the head when you said "Mr. Agyeman was arguing for a free market but runs away from it', perhaps because he delved too much in ...
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  Kojo,
  Thanks for your feedback and I do appreciate that. In any event, you hit the nail right on the head when you said "Mr. Agyeman was arguing for a free market but runs away from it', perhaps because he delved too much into extraneous detail that seemed to mask the real topic at hand. For sure we can't develop without free market because relying on the government as the primary employer hasn't worked so far and it is just not going to work, ever! BUT, and that is a big but, we can't progress beyond where we are today without our government having enough foresight to institute policies that nourishes free market or MIXED economy, including formulating liberal tax laws and tax breaks that will encourage more people to go into private business and for the existing ones to flourish and consequently go on to hire more employees. Of course we all want the prevalence of a free market society because our development hinges on it. As you said, it is doable and we all know it. You just have to step into any of our markets to realize that. Yes, yes, yes...we all want free enterprise but how we get there is a totally different ballgame and a million dollar question. The good thing is, we are at least talking and sharing ideas, which is healthy.
  
  Oh and one more thing: when those among us clamour for good governance, it is because people are capable of running some kind of business -the educated and uneducated- but the majority of us just don't have that kind of money. Ponder for a moment what giving out micro loans (with all the money we keep loosing day in and day out to our rogue politicians) to individuals to start up small businesses could do to revitalize our economy. It may not make a heck lot of dent but it is at least a good start. The money from the missing millions from the sale of the drill ship alone could have helped hundreds of our people to at least trade if nothing else. And that raises another dilemma. We can't get very far with just the service industry but it is a good start. And there is a lot more money that has been flushed down the drain...oh I mean funnelled into peoples pockets, that could have made a big change in peoples lives. We should all keep talking to each other... both from our minds and our hearts because talking about social issues require both. It is an all inclusive package.

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