ehie: WHATEVER....
HOPE NOBAMA DOESN'T WIN
SHEEPLE

Delafruita:
sickness dey worry you.imagine comparing death with sleep

MacDaddy01:


lol......I AM READY TO BET THAT YOU CANT GIVE A COHERENT REASON WHY

pelezico: Unfortunately what we are led to believe is that we need more Government something that Obama advocates. What Nigeria need is not more Government but less. Nigeria should not adopt Americas US economic policies because its riddled with failure. Governements do not have the know how or expertise. Its the people not Government that fix economies thru industry. Perhaps one of the reasons why the US economy has not collapsed is because of the woes currently going on in Europe. But it will collapse especially when China wake and realise that billions of dollors it has bought is worthless.

Governments do not have the expertise to fix economies after all look at the broken US economy which is partly if not wholly due to Government spending due to its over reliance on fiat currency. This failed policies are artificial lowering of interest rates, reliance on the property market, bailouts, tax increase on the rich, war in various countries exacerbating what little money the US have, over reliance on China, a communist Nation to fund its dept by buying Government bonds, etc, etc)

Nigeria must rely on individual industry and not US rhetoric, celebrity and empty politics. We need less Government not more.

icon8: Bros, no be me sickness dey worry o! Haba, the paragraph was in the OP's epistle and I was enjoying the write-up until I saw the paragraph and I stopped reading immediately. That was just a quote from the original post, not mine. How I go compare Obama with Jonathan nah? Are you too dumb to understand a simple sentence?

Joey82:

I find ur post quite amazing, when the government allowed the people to run /fix the economy, what happened as a result is the depression we are into right now.
Have u ever asked urself y china is been strong all along?
its because their economy was/is a regulated one.
if u leave it in the hands of the individuals, they'll only think about themselves and greed'll take the center stage.
i dont mean to be persimistic but not everybody will become rich, not everybody will own a business - if not nobody will work for nobody and u cant do it all alone.
if u are rich, u must have a driver, steward, barber, gardener, clerk etc. without which ur richness will not last.
question is what plan is on ground for this group of people?

Evil Brain: If you read OP's post to the end, you'll see that he's trying to claim that GEJ's agenda is not that different from Obama/Clinton's abd that he is trying to empower the masses. Unfortunately, this cannot be farther from the truth. The fact is that whenever there has been a clash between the interests if the masses and those of the corrupt ruling class, GEJ has sided against the people every single time.

He allowed subsidy cheats to rob the country blind for over 2 years and when the government eventually got broke, he decided to make the masses pay the bill instead of going after the thieves. Even after the January mass protests forced his hand, he's still dragging his feet over prosecuting the these people (all of whom are well known to him).

He's an Ijaw man, yet he has done nothing to rein in the excesses of the oil companies in the Niger Delta. In fact, after the last major oil spill, his oil minister was practically leading Shell's defence and the government completely accepted the company's damage estimate without question to the shock of international environmental groups. When those same environmental groups caught Shell lying about the amount of oil they spilled, GEJ's government did nothing.

Even though the government is barely solvent, he's done next to nothing to reduce the insane allowances government officials get, to trim the number of useless staff or cut the bloated recurrent expenditure budget. Instead, he raised income taxes earlier this year, and instituted a series of clever schemes to milk more money out ordinary people such as the CBN's "cash-free" fines (a thinly disguised tax on individuals and businesses), the pointless new number plates and so on.

From where I'm standing, every accusation the US Democrats have made against the republicans also applies to GEJ, only 10 times worse. The republicans tax the poor and give to the rich, while GEJ gives the rich a licence to pillage all they want.

You tell me which is worse.

icon8: Nice attempt, nice effort! Unfortunately, I stopped reading when I saw the paragraph quoted below:
"Relating this to the Nigerian experience while listening to Clinton, I couldn’t see much difference between what the American Democrats want to achieve and what the GEJ government wants to achieve via the Transformation Agenda."

SimonAndal: Great speech. I just love the way he painted the republicans as evil vampires (which they are). Pmsl!

mukina2: Video
http://www.nytimes.com/video/2012/09/06/us/politics/100000001763238/bill-clintons-speech-.html


Full Text:



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/us/politics/transcript-of-bill-clintons-speech-to-the-democratic-national-convention.html?pagewanted=all

integrityfood: I love Clinton's speech but the Obama health care policy suggesting the nearness of anti-christ on my mind