Greece Debt crisis and What Ghana can learn – Juliet Asante

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• Robert 10 years ago

  You couldn't have said it better. let those who have ears...... let them hear!!!

  You couldn't have said it better. let those who have ears...... let them hear!!!

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• Neutral Zone 10 years ago

  Unfortunately I'm deaf. Not blind though. ????

  Unfortunately I'm deaf. Not blind though. ????

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• nakky 10 years ago

  Hmm.what went wrong .our once beloved ghana has turn into something else.l fear for us all.well l do not blame any politician.nobody holds them accountable after leaving office so wat do u expect.

  Hmm.what went wrong .our once beloved ghana has turn into something else.l fear for us all.well l do not blame any politician.nobody holds them accountable after leaving office so wat do u expect.

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• Nkwantabisa, Italy. 10 years ago

  Brava, me nua baa, you've said it all, Our leaders don't listen and they don't learn too, and if you dare talk about it, they brand you to a political party .On God deliver Ghana from this useless leader and his corrupt party

  Brava, me nua baa, you've said it all, Our leaders don't listen and they don't learn too, and if you dare talk about it, they brand you to a political party .On God deliver Ghana from this useless leader and his corrupt party

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• Kwaku Junior 10 years ago

  Enlightening!Great article

  Enlightening!Great article

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• G. K. Berko 10 years ago

  Thank you very much for your timely warning. It is poignant, and very simply explained for us all to understand. But will our Government listen? Will our Rubber-stamp Parliament show any muscle to do the right thing by cons ...
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  Thank you very much for your timely warning. It is poignant, and very simply explained for us all to understand. But will our Government listen? Will our Rubber-stamp Parliament show any muscle to do the right thing by constraining the Government's wild borrowing binge?
  
  We are arrogantly unreceptive to wise counseling from among our own sages, and experts. We would rather go out to beg with conditions as the IMF imposes on us rather than heed the redemptive cautions many of our own apolitical patriots have offered over the few years back to cut our coat according to our size, manage our expenditure to yield greater returns.
  
  We see sound advice as either a potential trickery by the opposition, or a sheer muted insult at the incumbent. Given the height of tribal distrust that some of our Politicians have raised among us in recent times, it is hard to coalesce a national consensus to seriously appeal to the Government to act more wisely.
  
  The vitriolic partisanship has also hardened the hearing of the ruling Administration. Sadly, it is the life of the Nation that is being snuffed out steadily.
  
  Instead of the wild insults and accusations, our concerns about the direction the Nation is heading must be expressed in calm, decorous data-supported appeals to the Authorities, like you just did in your piece. And instead of the numerous Strikes and threats thereof, bodies that have direct and immediate concerns that impinge on their sheer survival and the sustenance of their services, like the Doctors and Pharmacists, ought to send their leaders to the Parliament to organize the MPs on both sides of the aisle to pressure the Government to act right to resolve their issues.
  
  The more Strikes we face, the deeper hole we dig for ourselves by denying the Nation essential services.
  
  It is really amazing how our Parliament has done almost nothing to guide the Administration on the right path. It seems like the Parliament is ineffectually hampered by the same divisive politics the Public perceive among the Parties. So, the Opposition could only rant and complain bitterly, while the majority thumbs its nose to them without any sensitivity to the real chaos prevailing. To the MPs, it is who wields the Power, and who could claim scholarly prowess. No one listens to the other. And the majority MPs quietly sit in support of the Government without offering the necessary checks; it provides a rubber-stamp for whatever the Government says without enlightening probe.
  
  What a sad state of affairs for mother Ghana!!
  
  Well, if we hit the bottom, it would take us a very long time to rise up again, if ever.
  
  One of the ways we could curb the unrelenting borrowing and corruption, I am afraid, is for a groundswell of the Population across Party boundaries to appeal to the UN and the major Countries of the World to compel the administration to account for all it has been doing with our loans, and also help track any stolen monies stashed in foreign financial havens.
  
  It is only when the thieves are exposed thus that we could start to get them to listen and stop looting from us.
  
  Long Live Ghana!!!

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