@Phares, whilst I agree totally with you, as law abiding citizens, we always play our role by force. Pay the taxes, work to earn a living et al, but what happens when it is beyond us? If there were to be a revolution in Kenya, what would the scenario be like? Life is so intertwined here in Kenya, and the 2007-8 clashes proved it. Simple stuff like vegetables were unavailable. Unless you have your passport always at hand with an open ticket with straight access to the airport :-), we are sitting on a ticking time bomb. @Mickey, with all the stuff going on - 2012 looks like it will be CRAZY!!! To ensure that this never happens again, I think Kenyans must see the current leaders for what they are: greedy. You can never put a hungry man in the kitchen and not expect him to eat. @Mark, it will take for the middle class to be touched for heads to roll (syokimau saga) otherwise, we watch in silence with bated breathe. Regards -- Anthony Tai "A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
@Tony,
Firstly, anybody who says we are ahead of schedule, with current growth and inflation rates is terribly myopic. If we sustain our current economic growth rate, our GDP in 2030 will be a paltry 68B. (from our current 34, a far cry from the 'middle income economy' we hope to be). If we sustain growth rates of 10%, we will be able to hit total GDP output of 189B. Now. Looking at current factors; Expensive credit, high taxes, high oil, poor balance of trade, high inflation rates, income inequality, poor industry growth, please, pray tell, how exactly we will achieve vision 2030? Even if we strike oil, it will be another 10 years before we can actually commercialize it.
What have we done about the things that irk us? We pay our taxes. Why isn't our MP, who is paid by our taxes, doing his job? Apart from earning my income, voting, paying my taxes, am I supposed to then, as a citizen, commit my time to doing what people who *forcibly* take my money from me are supposed to do? To quote Ambrose Bierce:
PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.
PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Anthony Tai <jicholatai@gmail.com> wrote:
@ Phares - @*mugokibati* <https://twitter.com/#%21/mugokibati> of @ kenyavision2030 <https://twitter.com/#%21/kenyavision2030> boosts that we are ahead of schedule on the vision 2030 perspective.
As upwardly mobile citizens of Kenya what have we done about the things that irk us? How about those without the stuff you have? It's only a matter of time before I see someone start something on the streets of Nairobi and others follow. Kenya is smoking and no one cares!!!
My thoughts.
Anthony Tai
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
- Nelson Mandela
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:17 AM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
So as bad as a Monday morning gets: there has been no power since 3am last night, so no hot water either. The laptop battery is running low as the USB modem is further draining it quickly. The electric cooker wil not work, so no way to get hot water here either. The microwave cannot also heat water or food, there's no electricity. The gas cooker also is a useless pice of metal hardware now.
The area I stay which is close to a commercial area suffers power loss each time it rains and has been like this even before the rains started, my car is low of fuel as no station has since the last two days and there has been a cooking gas shortage for a few months now.
I think resorting back to the old days of using charcoal seems the only option for now. Unfortunately, there are very few trees around to build a fire.
Is the collapse of the economy showing its initial signs? And there was no need for an economist to say anything, that cup of coffee is the looking glass.
Me thots. :-(
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