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DeepsightX:
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.

Lucretius

DeepsightX:
Please its high time we need to know what good this government has done.

Please feel free to name any.

You may also name what other goodies are coming in the next three years.

Bountiful goodies such as as inflation and others, in order to reset the economy for good.

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world

Like a Colossus, and we petty men

Walk under his huge legs and peep about

To find ourselves dishonorable graves.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,

But in ourselves, that we are underlings.


Shakespeare Julius Caesar

You must be kidding me!

DeepsightX:
By saving money through subsidy removal and higher taxes because Nigerians need to pay more to make the country economically stable as well agreed by most economists, the IMF, World Bank, and even eminent persons such as Cardoso, Wale Edun and nairalanda1 for the general good of Nigeria.

DeepsightX:
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Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest
Now is the time that face should form another;
Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,
Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.
For where is she so fair whose unear’d womb
Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
Or who is he so fond will be the tomb
Of his self-love, to stop posterity?
Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime:
So thou through windows of thine age shall see
Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time.
But if thou live, remember’d not to be,
Die single, and thine image dies with thee


Shakespeare, sonnet 3

DeepsightX:
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I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart
For the joys of the multitude.
And I would not have the tears that sadness makes
To flow from my every part turn into laughter.

I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.


Khalil GIbrain

DMerciful:
You must be kidding me!

So you now admit that in 2012, tinubu, buhari and co were right to call for subsidy to remain then?

As for me, they were wrong then, still wrong now.

DeepsightX:
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And an old priest said, "Speak to us of Religion."

And he said:

Have I spoken this day of aught else?

Is not religion all deeds and all reflection,

And that which is neither deed nor reflection, but a wonder and a surprise ever springing in the soul, even while the hands hew the stone or tend the loom?

Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?

Who can spread his hours before him, saying, "This for God and this for myself; This for my soul, and this other for my body?"

All your hours are wings that beat through space from self to self.

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.

The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

And he who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

The freest song comes not through bars and wires.

And he to whom worshipping is a window, to open but also to shut, has not yet visited the house of his soul whose windows are from dawn to dawn.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.

Whenever you enter into it take with you your all.

Take the plough and the forge and the mallet and the lute,

The things you have fashioned in necessity or for delight.

For in revery you cannot rise above your achievements nor fall lower than your failures.

And take with you all men:

For in adoration you cannot fly higher than their hopes nor humble yourself lower than their despair.

And if you would know God be not therefore a solver of riddles.

Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.

And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain.

You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees


K. Gibrain , On Religion.

DeepsightX:
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And a merchant said, "Speak to us of Buying and Selling."

And he answered and said:

To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands.

It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied.

Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

When in the market place you toilers of the sea and fields and vineyards meet the weavers and the potters and the gatherers of spices, -

Invoke then the master spirit of the earth, to come into your midst and sanctify the scales and the reckoning that weighs value against value.

And suffer not the barren-handed to take part in your transactions, who would sell their words for your labour.

To such men you should say,

"Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net;

For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us."

And if there come the singers and the dancers and the flute players, - buy of their gifts also.

For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and food for your soul.

And before you leave the marketplace, see that no one has gone his way with empty hands.

For the master spirit of the earth shall not sleep peacefully upon the wind till the needs of the least of you are satisfied.


K. GIbran On Buying and selling.

Removal of subsidy wasnt the problem, its the devaluation of the naira that wrecked everything.

nairalanda1:
So you now admit that in 2012, tinubu, buhari and co were right to call for subsidy to remain then?

As for me, they were wrong then, still wrong now.

DeepsightX:
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“The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.”
― Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

DeepsightX:
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“The middle classes have a truly extraordinary conception of society. They really believe that human beings . . . have real existence only if they make money or help to make it.”
― Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England

DeepsightX:
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“All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.”
― Friedrich Engels

DMerciful:
Removal of subsidy wasnt the problem, its the devaluation of the naira that wrecked everything.

The devaluation of the naira arises from the fact that we do not earn enough forex.

The reason for our not earning enough forex is the decision, taken at independence and sustained since then, to make NIgeria a nation that exports raw materials whose prices we do not control, not a nation that exports products of ideas and technologies whose prices we control and can set.

Strong nations export products of technology and innovation. Weak nations export raw materials to the strong nations who turn them into products far more in value than the raw materials, and then sell them to the weak nations at a price that robs us of the forex we make from selling raw materials

Then we take loans at the end.

And the naira keeps falling.


Hence our predicament.

Stop defending Tinubu like we weren't alive when these things happened.

If you're in a hurry to harvest the yam, you'll be the one to bend down to dig up the broken pieces.

Tinubu was in a hurry so did too many reforms at the same time. Non succeeded! By floating the naira in a dollarized economy, he ruined the naira for good

nairalanda1:
The devaluation of the naira arises from the fact that we do not earn enough forex.

The reason for our not earning enough forex is the decision, taken at independence and sustained since then, to make NIgeria a nation that exports raw materials whose prices we do not control, not a nation that exports products of ideas and technologies whose prices we control and can set.

Strong nations export products of technology and innovation. Weak nations export raw materials to the strong nations who turn them into products far more in value than the raw materials, and then sell them to the weak nations at a price that robs us of the forex we make from selling raw materials

Then we take loans at the end.

And the naira keeps falling.


Hence our predicament.

DMerciful:
Stop defending Tinubu like we weren't alive when these things happened.

If you're in a hurry to harvest the yam, you'll be the one to bend down to dig up the broken pieces.

Tinubu was in a hurry so did too many reforms at the same time. Non succeeded! By floating the naira in a dollarized economy, he ruined the naira for good

SO, saying that tinubu has not taken steps to make us an industrial nation is defending tinubu?

OL boy, your reasoning is somehow. Politely speaking.

DeepsightX:
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“Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.”
― Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

DeepsightX:
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“Monogamy was the first form of the family not founded on natural, but on economic conditions, viz.: the victory of private property over primitive and natural collectivism.”
― Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

DeepsightX:
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“The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.”
― Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

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If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.

Karl Marx, Reflections of a Young Man (1835)

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The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities

Karl Marx, Critical Notes on the Article ‘The King of Prussia and Social Reform. By a Prussian’ (1844)

DeepsightX:
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Morality, religion, metaphysics, all the rest of ideology and their corresponding forms of consciousness, thus no longer retain the semblance of independence. They have no history, no development; but men, developing their material production and their material intercourse, alter, along with this their real existence, their thinking and the products of their thinking.

Marx, German Ideology (1845)

DeepsightX:
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The productive forces are the result of man’s practical energy, but that energy is in turn circumscribed by the conditions in which man is placed by the productive forces already acquired, by the form of society which exists before him, which he does not create, which is the product of the preceding generation.

Marx, Letter to Annenkov (1846)

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A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirement for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that its inmate has no social position at all to maintain.

Marx, Wage Labour and Capital (1847)

Tinubu is responsible for 95% of the current hardship. This is a fact!

nairalanda1:
SO, saying that tinubu has not taken steps to make us an industrial nation is defending tinubu?

OL boy, your reasoning is somehow. Politely speaking.

DeepsightX:
Please its high time we need to know what good this government has done.

Please feel free to name any.

You may also name what other goodies are coming in the next three years.

Bountiful goodies such as as inflation and others, in order to reset the economy for good.

“Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.”
― Rosa Luxemburg

DMerciful:
Tinubu is responsible for 95% of the current hardship. This is a fact!

He is, the buck stops at his table.

The problem is, he isn't taking the proper decisions needed that would get us out of this hardship.....because at the end he is a politican and politicans love to take bad decisions that are popular, at least with their base.

DeepsightX:
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“Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.”
― Rosa Luxemburg

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“Beauty without wit offers love nothing but the material enjoyment of its physical charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfills all the desires of the man it has captivated...

Let anyone ask a beautiful woman without wit whether she would be willing to exchange a small portion of her beauty for a sufficient dose of wit. If she speaks the truth, she will say, "No, I am satisfied to be as I am." But why is she satisfied? Because she is not aware of her own deficiency. Let an ugly but witty woman be asked if she would change her wit against beauty, and she will not hesitate in saying no. Why? Because, knowing the value of her wit, she is well aware that it is sufficient by itself to make her a queen in any society.”
― Giacomo Casanova, The Memoirs of Casanova, Vol 2 of 6: To Paris and Prison

DeepsightX:
Thank you, for you are patriotic and have mentioned one great progressive step which will clearly reduce hunger, inflation, insecurity and corruption. By this step, Nigeria will industrialize within one year.

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You are too sarcastic.🤣😂😂

DeepsightX:
Thank you, for you are patriotic and have mentioned one great progressive step which will clearly reduce hunger, inflation, insecurity and corruption. By this step, Nigeria will industrialize within one year.

I'm not sure the oil producers are enjoying real growth. That troubles me. For experience has shown that oil can be more of a curse than a blessing. And not only in Africa.

Paul Wolfowitz

DeepsightX:
Thank you, for you are patriotic and have mentioned one great progressive step which will clearly reduce hunger, inflation, insecurity and corruption. By this step, Nigeria will industrialize within one year.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Heraclitus

DeepsightX:
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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus