“BOORUWAS
TO BUDDHIMATHUN” This is the slogan for the next 25 years.
In the past Sri Lankan politicians were
the world’s cleverest at fooling those who voted them in by promising the sun,
moon and stars in addition to the EARTH and delivering not even a grain of
sand.
That will not hold in the future, as we
are now dealing with a new generation of informed youth. They are aware of
injustice, impropriety, and corruption, almost the moment it happens, and
therein lies, MY comfort that matters will improve in the future from that of
the present. I am ever the optimist.
It was with this in mind: I read today
on social media, about a self made Billionaire Rohan Pallewatte of Lanka
Harness, who said “I will pay Sri Lanka’s entire debt within one day” and he
meant it. I know he has a plan, and I know it will work, just as he
singlehandedly built one of the most successful companies in Sri Lanka that
exports precision, high performance air bag release devices that have to be so
precise as never to fail, that he has to guarantee tolerance levels unseen in
any other business. He is truly worth Billions, at least Rs100B at present, in
that is the value of his company if he sells it today.
He is ready to run for President, and I
know there will be 100 other business leaders who will back him with a
contribution of Rs50M each to make it happen. He knows what he wants, he knows
truly what the Country wants and he knows he can promise our Youth, the future
of this country, a place where they can work and prosper, free from corruption
and charlatans drawing huge salaries for not working, be they politicians and
their henchman or Govt. servants on the take, or any senior public official who
is not honest.
This
concept appeals to the youth.
In the link below I have shown how and
why you cannot fool today’s youth in the way you could fool their parents in
the past.
It is a BBC article published on August
23rd 2017, which says that millenials cannot and will not be fooled.
They have been fooled by the present and previous regime in Sri Lanka and they
will NOT tolerate either at any cost in future. They want change that they
believe in. They want someone who will put their money where their mouth is and
not expect someone else to pay for their lies, as is happening right now. They
just need a little true education to make it work.
2 comments:
We don't know if the impresario Rohan, just did it to add some publicity, or if he was serious. Perhaps this is a first shot to test the waters and look at the feedback on Social Media, which I see has a lot of comments.
Let us say he is serious, then he has a plan on how to extinguish the debt. I have a plan too. It is just that our Government does not have a plan, and that is why it is wanting.
Sri Lankans do not deserve to be paying ridiculous rates of interest on the national debt, as that is paid by every citizen whether he likes it or not, and weather he knows it or not.
This debt has been piled on by all who have ruled over us, especially the MOB after 2000, which accounts for 90% of the debt. If there is someone who will free us from the bulk of this debt, and therefore the need to pay all our Govt. revenue to repay the interest only, we will definitely be able to spend our taxes on worthwhile projects for the people instead of paying interest on current debt.
Let us see where this goes, if it is NOT Rohan then I am sure there will be an alternative before too long that would at least be better than all those who have gone before
Hooray for a novel approach to get us back to the debate on how to reduce the debt. This is the real issue that everybody has so far avoided, yes paying off the debt, to free us from slavery.
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