₦airaland Forum

ROSSIKE: Thousands who went before you promised similar fairytales of sainthood. WE'LL BELIEVE YOU WHEN WE SEE YOU IN OFFICE. Till then, kindly park well.






Dude, African economies are among the fastest growing on earth today, Nigeria including. The African middle class has ballooned from 30 million in the 70s when your favourite statist dictatorships were in place, to over 300 million today, a third of the African population. In all indices of development, we have PROGRESSED on the continent since the 70s. There is much more to be done, but we're getting there.




Wake up into the real world. You're stuck in 1975. This is 2013:


[b]''Fidel Castro has announced that the Cuban government will lay off 500,000 state workers in 6 months and allow more private sector jobs to flood the economy. The move comes after recent comments by Castro that the Cuban strictly communist method of economics was not working.

Castro's official labor union, CTC, released a statement announcing the surprising change in policy.

"Our state cannot and should not continue maintaining companies, productive entities and services with inflated payrolls and losses that
damage our economy and result counterproductive, create bad habits and distort workers' conduct," said the CTC in newspapers around the country.

The move may be both welcome and despised by Cubans. For many, the decision offers hope to those that wish to earn more than the $20 monthly average income. But others fear that jobs once guaranteed by the communist government will now be a thing of the past.

Regardless, Casto's sudden shift of thinking have many wondering if the government is starting to embrace capitalism.''[/b]

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/will-cuba-become-capitalist/question-1222437/



Britain is a neo-liberal capitalist state to the HILT. The NHS and welfare state are merely attempts to cushion their intensely capitalistic policies. As we speak, they are placing severe curbs on welfare, and squeezing their free health care policies to cater to only the most needy. Their system, for all its wealth, simply cannot sustain such policies. Same applies to nations across Europe. In the next 20 years, the welfare state could be a thing of the past in Europe.





Socialism has FAILED. Nobody practices it except North Korea. And they've been unable to create a ''just and fair society''. Cuba has a one leg in one leg out approach, and their human rights record is appalling.



Cuba is a dictatorship responsible for the death and exile of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Cuba is a place you can be picked up for criticising the dicator, and shot. Nearly 80,000 Cubans are estimated to have died trying to flee the country by sea.

The Human Rights Watch alleges the Cuban govt "represses nearly all forms of political dissent" and that "Cubans are systematically denied basic rights to free expression, association, assembly, privacy, movement, and due process of law".

Cuba had the second-highest number of imprisoned journalists of any nation in 2008 (the People's Republic of China had the highest) according to various sources, including the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an international NGO, and Human Rights Watch. As a result of ownership restrictions, computer ownership rates are among the world's lowest. The right to use the Internet is granted only to selected locations and they may be monitored. Connecting to the Internet illegally can lead to a five-year prison sentence.
Cuban dissidents who commit crimes face arrest and imprisonment. In the 1990s, Human Rights Watch reported that Cuba's extensive prison system, one of the largest in Latin America, consists of some 40 maximum-security prisons, 30 minimum-security prisons, and over 200 work camps. According to Human Rights Watch, political prisoners, along with the rest of Cuba's prison population, are confined to jails with substandard and unhealthy conditions''

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba


So CAP28, How many Nigerians do you expect to be tortured and killed to keep up your favourite political system?









Oh please shut up. If the govt ''does nothing but steal from its people'', how come you are educated? Why didn't they steal the money that was used to educate you and countless tens of millions of Nigerians since the post colonial era? At least they've done far better than your ''socialist British govt'' who ruled Nigeria and did nothing but loot, leaving us with 7% literacy at independence. That figure is now 75% courtesy of the Nigerian govt's investment in education. So thank your lucky stars you were born under Nigerian rule, and save us your pompous, holier than thou, Saint Michael bullshiit.




Nigeria is filled with MILLIONS of businesses, large and small. The govt continues to create various incentives to businesses - power supply improvements, shortening drastically the time and cost of registering a business, infrastructural improvements - road, rail, airports, telecoms improvements, banking sector reforms etc etc.



Did walmart not start out as one man and his wife's company? Why don't you start your own walmart and grow it to become a $20 billion quoted company instead of disturbing us?



So you don't have the $15 billion. Yet you are angry that the govt is allowing companies with such resources to invest in Nigeria. So we should all wait for YOU cap28 to start your own walmart and grow it for 100 years before we can build an Eko Atlantic filled with top level companies?

You really must be on strong drink.




The joke is on you, clown.

Le Ostrich: Clinton is an international states man (for hire).

obadiah777: HEY YOU CANT BEAT NATURE AT ITS GAME. IN DUE TIME ALL THE LAND WILL BE RECLAIMED BY THE SEAS. THESE DIMWITS CAN BET ON THAT. SOME ARCHAIC DELUSIONAL STONE AGE PREHISTORIC NEGROS LIVING OUT THEIR DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR ON THE MONEY OF THE MASSES. CRAZY OL FOO-LS. THEY WILL SURELY BE CAST ASUNDER IN DUE TIME

obadiah777: YEAH THAT WOULD BE THE DAY LOL. LETS HOPE ROSSIKE IS EATING IN ONE OF THE FANCY RESTAURANTS WHEN IT SINKS

obadiah777: YEAH THAT WOULD BE THE DAY LOL

Eko Ile: https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/859762_537146426306628_149433823_o.jpg

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ROSSIKE: Look Mr Man, I can school you on Haiti's history. Of course they were sabotaged by the USA and France. What the hell has that got to do with Eko Atlantic City?



No. Haiti was brought to its knees because right from her independence in 1804, she was forced to pay over 80% of her annual earnings to France as 'compensation' for the latter's loss of 'her' territory. Payments that only stopped in the 1960s. In addition to the fact that US marines helped topple at least two democratically elected leaders of that country, to install kleptocratic dictators.

Those are the main causes of Haiti's condition.

ROSSIKE: Saint Michael. I'm sure if they put you in power you'd be clean as a whistle.

Compound idio.t, ''neo-liberal policies'' are what EVERY NATION ON EARTH is practicing, or looking to practice. Even Iran, Cuba, Russia and China. The only exception is North Korea.

So what are you suggesting? That Nigeria goes communist or socialist like North Korea? Are you a communist? Sorry, your system has been tried and has failed spectacularly around the world. One African nation that tried to do away with ''neo liberal policies'' and embrace socialism was Tanzania, under Julius Nyerere. It was a spectacular failure from which they're yet to fully recover, 30 years after the event. Is this what you're recommending for Nigeria?

Why don't YOU work towards setting up YOUR own factory at the FTZ and employ Nigerians and pay them decent wages?

WHO STOPPED YOU, OR DID FASHOLA SAY ONLY AMERICAN COMPANIES CAN BUY LAND THERE?

All YOU can do is snipe from the sidelines, while doing absolutely NOTHING yourself.

Isn't it better to simply shut up?

Eko Ile: @ ROSSIKE


Your tolerance for these ignorant illiterates is exemplary. Unfortunately, you can not cure ignorants and illiterates.

obadiah777: YOU HAVE DEFINITELY LOST WHATS LEFT OF YOUR GADDEM MIND. YOU EXPECT ME TO READ COOKED UP FIGURES ? SINCE WHEN HAS DATA BEEN ACCURATELY COLLATED AND CORRELATED AND COLLECTED IN NIGERIA ? A COUNTRY WHERE YOU DONT HAVE A COMPUTERIZED LIST OF ALL THE INDIGENES AND YOU EXPECT ME TO READ SOME COOKED UP FIGURES USED FOR WHATEVER AGENDAS THE FIGURES ARE COOKED FOR ? THIS IS THE LEVEL OF COMMON SENSE YOU ARE EXHIBITING ON A PUBLIC FORUM ? YOU NEED TO BE STRIPPED NAK-ED AND MARCHED THROUGH THE MARKET AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT A HALFWIT LOOKS LIKE SMDH

ROSSIKE: Haiti? This moro.n is comparing the Federal Republic of Nigeria to... Haiti?

Sorry, but Nigeria and HAITI do not belong in the same discussion when we're talking of economics or development. Music and traditional religion perhaps, but that's about it.

Kindly desist from such insults to this country. Thanks.

ROSSIKE: More crackpot theories of doom from our resident unemployed hatemongering tout.

obadiah777: YEAH CAP28, ARGUING WITH THAT HERMAPHRODITE CALLED ROSSIKE IS LIKE ARGUING WITH SOMEONE IN THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS.

ballabriggs: Racist cap28 again

ROSSIKE: More economic illiterates getting on board.

victorazy: The only pic I know

dopeJemi:

shine bright like a Forehead

Blyss: I personally know of many well off Black-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans who have stated that they wouldn't mind moving their families and business operations to Africa and this includes me as well, but one major hang up is a strong lack of acceptance to live under African rule. Now you can call this bigoted or hateful in some other fashion, but in all reality the majority of the reasoning expressed in regard to the issue, were not so much bigoted as apposed to being simply being of a mind set of wanting to fully control the surroundings of their operations.

They basically want to gather up a congregation of middle and upper class black diaspora and buy out a large stretch land from, let say Angola or the DR. Congo, with an agreement for the said land to be fully liberated into the control of the group, to stand as their own independent nation, void of any African natives . They'll bring their money, businesses and such to this land and basically turn it into a progressive utopia of their life back in the Americas.

I mentioned this to a few Africans I associate with, and they found this highly offensive, for various reasons. But I'd like to know what you'all think of such a desire or plan.

shymexx: Nah, 30mins on the bus but 5-10mins drive...

So, it's just the same endz/area...

I know Eltham, Sidcup, Kidbrooke, and all the way to Erith and Bexleyheath..

shymexx: How come the Ferdinand brothers are always in Peckham and Rio tries too hard to talk about Peckham all the time?? Anton is in a couple of black hood videos...

Adam Afriyie, the millionaire top black conservative MP and the future PM is from Peckham and he talks about Peckham all the time...

Harriet Harman is from Peckham as well...

I can give you a list of successful people who're happy to be associated with Peckham...

[b]Harman was born Lesley Harriet Harman in London to Anna Harman (née Spicer), a solicitor, married to a Harley Street physician John Bishop Harman FRCP.[5] Her parents each had non-conformist backgrounds – her grandfather, ophthalmic surgeon Nathaniel Bishop Harman, was a prominent Unitarian[6] and the Spicer family were well known congregationalists. Her aunt was Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, and her cousins include writers Lady Antonia Fraser, Rachel Billington, and Thomas Pakenham.[7][dead link]
Harman attended a fee-paying public school, St Paul's Girls' School and then the University of York, where she gained a BA in Politics.
After qualifying as a lawyer, Harman worked for Brent Law Centre in London. Between 1978 and 1982, Harman was employed legal officer for the National Council for Civil Liberties. In this capacity, she was found in contempt of court by Mr Justice Hugh Park.[8] before becoming MP for Peckham in a by-election in 1982. However, Harman took the case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and successfully argued that the prosecution had breached her right to freedom of expression. Harman v United Kingdom is still considered a significant case in British public law.[9]
Harman was later involved in a European Court of Human Rights case against MI5 after it was revealed (during a television interview given) by whistleblower Cathy Massiter in 1984 that personal files were held by MI5 on Harman and on the by then former General Secretary of the NCCL, Patricia Hewitt.[10] They successfully argued that there had been an infringement of their rights because MI5 was not a legally constituted and democratically accountable organisation, this being the minimum standard in democracy.[10] The success of the case led to enactment [/b]

shymexx: I had to come back and post a final comment on this thread...

Imagine 18million mad people running around in Nigeria, yet the government hasn't deemed it fit to call it a national tragedy and declare a state of emergence in the country smh... Anyway, what do you expect from a country of 150 million people with only 5million rich/ballin' people, 70million dead-walking people, and the rest are just there for the sake of being there - whilst 500,000people continue to loot and chuck billions of dollars and naira in foreign accounts??

You can keep the pricks who went back - they're only looking for something to steal with the other looters!! The only thing worth going to naija for are the hungry who.res who'll swallow your babies for a nickle!!

The country is so messed up, all our African values have been thrown in the bin and we're now raising who.res, kidnappers, armed robbers, 419ers etc..

Muthaphuck Nigeria!!

I'm out, yo!!

*Still crying for naija*