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“Democracy is not a spectator sport.”
Lotte Scharfman
“The most important political office is that of the private citizen.”
Louis Brandeis
“I wish I could shut up. But I can’t and I won’t.”
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
Benjamin Franklyn
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
Edward Murrow
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
Alice Walker
“When a government loses integrity, times are dangerous. When the populace accepts the loss, times are desperate.”
Pam Brown
“Every country gets the government it deserves.”
Joseph de Maistr
“Free and fair elections can give us a government of the people; but only an active, informed and vigilant citizen can give us a government by the people for the people.”
H. Kwasi Prempeh
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The Public Debt, Tag Lines and Political Gamesmanship

I am listening with keen interest to the utterings of two political leaders on the issue of the size of the public debt: - the incumbent Prime Minister and Minister of the Finance, self-styled “Papa”, aka “the Great Provider of Food”; The Political Leader of the main opposition party – a former Minister of Finance in the last administration, aspirant to the office of Prime Minister and maybe Minister of Finance. I will refer to him as The Aspirant. While some may be temporarily dazzled by the chimera of brilliance of both leaders, others among us are 2018, February 18th: simply baffled.

2018-Feb.11th-The-Public-Debt-Tag-Lines-and-Political-Gamesmanship.pdf

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