You must be leaving in the stone
ages if you still believe in the maxim "talk is cheap". The
government has proposed to increase levy
on emails including all the junks and international calls which are mostly
placed to lonely and sick grannies in the villages from their children in the
cold. Well, the government must be the channel through which these policies
must come, but fellows, you have to bypass the government and look at the
bigger picture.
The government is just a group of people made
up by members from our society. Some are friends, families, school mates and colleagues,
so it's not like they are far-removed from our situation or suddenly become
accustomed to riches or luxuries and have turned their back on us. No, their
hands are tied and it is a pity all we talk about all day is their inability to
deliver on their promises. How can they deliver their promises when the
Paymaster has not released funds (which they have amassed from corporatocracy
and fascism) or releases insufficient funds with shoe string budgets and strict
directives as to how the money should be disbursed?
From my purview, Ghana is too
small a country to resist the overwhelming and imposing figure of Big Brother
not to allow all these economic hit men to parade around as entrepreneurs,
business and development partners. What is in for them for the street lights
and roads they construct for us? What is in for them for the Electrification
projects and the beautification of the city? Do they care that much to give us
grants just to construct roads without necessarily solving our basic and
pervasive problems?
The whole idea is to keep us on
the fringes for exploitation because in the end, toxins from mining our mineral
resources are willfully pumped into our water bodies which eventually kill people,
plants and animals and consequently are paid outrageously for good work done,
while the poor victims wallow in abject poverty.
A look at the regular trends in
worldwide poverty rates are published by newspapers everyday and per the world
Bank, a daily income of less than two dollars per person have become the
benchmark for defining the world’s poor while the poorest scrap on less than a
dollar a day and it is hard to imagine how these poor people survive the
hardships that come in torrents but even more harder thinking about how such
people can ever prosper, not to think about emergencies and affording
big-ticket items like building, education, furniture etc.
However the two dollar statistics
is just an average over time, meaning there are days you go without the two
dollars and there are other days you make more to which you can’t really make
plans for because as irregular as the income is, it is small and unpredictable.
It will also interest you to note that of all the statistics that have been
availed by scores of scholars for the world bank, they have not been able to
research into how the poor people survive on the two dollars and how they go
through each day.
They don’t really care about you
and it is time the poor majority change their attitude towards the government
because the government is not there for you. They have actually come to make
you poorer and trust me, of every ten units of items they take from you, they
give you one.
The whole idea is to annihilate
the human race which I know most of you will be quick to refer to as unfounded,
but that just goes to portray your gullibility and what you are being fed with.
There is more happening around you than you can see and you don't always need
empirical evidence to believe. Read beyond the lines and you will realize to
your chagrin that, there are other printed matters you have refused to see. They
play with our minds; rein us in so we can rally around one figurehead by
appending our signatures and consents that will be binding on us as a people. Votes
for our Presidents and other leaders are all it takes to set their dominion in
motion. Democracy.
Recently, there was a topic for
discussion on Africans and for that matter Ghanaians now enjoying middle income
status; another illusive praise on us, to probably assuage our psyche, but
given that the report is true, how many people are actually in that bracket?
How reflective is our single digit inflation and all the economic indicators
they keep touting on our behalf? How beneficial is it to that hard working hawking
woman with a child strapped behind her? And how does that incredible GDP figures
that are churned out every time help the average Joe in Teshie, Wassa, Afram
Plains and Atiavi? We as a people have to determine that enough is enough and
we want to try another means of approaching same prevalent situations.
Dear reader, there is nothing
like middle income class or middle class. Typically on a number scale, there
are two sets of numbers, one being negative and the other positive, all
gravitating to the middle number which is zero (0), so you realize that even
the less positive number (+1) nearer to the zero is more than the highest (-1) on
the other divide, and interestingly, the gap between the two divides only keep
widening as the numbers increase in the opposite directions, so there cannot be
anything like the middle class. You are either there or here. Simple.
Anything middle is defeating to polarity
and the duality concept in Accounting and Creation where we have man and woman,
up and down, table and chair, negative and positive, good and evil, God and
Devil, a freeman and a slave and what have you. The attempt to fuse in ‘middle’
is what is giving birth to gays and their related rights; middle income class
and what have you.
Consequently, we will be served
more than we bargained for. We will be paying more levies that weever
anticipated because everything is just playing to their galleries. Our system
has moved into an era where one person can control about sixty percent (60%) of
the economy and you think that man is not powerful enough to use human beings
the way he likes? Can you imagine how many people will be dependent on that man
through the number of employments he is willing and able to provide for the
masses? Too much power vested in one person can be very dangerous but unfortunately
that is where we are now and the bad news is we are on a journey of no return
which ushers in modern day slavery.
There is always a price to pay for
every single choice we make except, most of the consequences is not bearing on
us because of their negligible effect. We only get to feel those that affect us
seriously. The need to pay for everything we utilize is just a tip of the
iceberg and a clarion call to what is yet to hit us. They are testing the
waters and very soon, we will be paying to breathe ‘good’ air because the whole
atmosphere would have been polluted. You either pay, breath and live or die.
And there is this incessant
feeling that will not go away anytime soon, that, one of these days, one or two
people will start owning nations and by extension, everything the nation has to
offer looking at the rate at which all our mineral and human resources are
being used as collateral for borrowing from external sources.
Brace up because serious times
are here!
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