6/11/2014
No questions asked
I regret to keep harping on the
same theme, but it seems to be necessary to do so.
Most citizens in Lebanon have
developed, lately, a short span of attention. They have acquired a tendency to
rapidly shift their interest from one event to the next, without bothering to
clearly differentiate between the relatively trivial ones and those that are of
paramount importance to the country. Permit me to elaborate.
Every twenty four hours, the
country’s public debt grows by fifteen million US dollars. Within a few short
years, that daily burden is expected to double and so will the total size of
the debt, unless some essential reforms are introduced today, rather than
tomorrow. All these facts are clearly illustrated in the table and the graphs
(figures 1 and 2) that are published on this blog.
But, instead of focusing their
attention upon how these dangerous trends can be reversed, the citisens’attention
remains fixed upon whether General Michel Aoun or Samir Geagea will be elected
Presidents. No one bothers to ask either candidate how he plans to protect our
country from the dangers that surround it, including the snowballing evil
growth of the Debt.
At the same time, as Michael
Young so aptly pointed out in his article, no one seems really interested in
finding out the real intentions of Hezbollah regarding the future of our
country. No one cares to detect what
lies behind their unabashed intentions to assume full control of the leadership
of this country by appointing one of their sympathizers to the first presidency
while retaining control of the armed services and the Parliament. No one is
interested in asking them, once they reach these goals, what would be their
social, economic, infrastructure and financial programs for the country. At the
same time, no one has also thought of querying how, in such instance, they
would go about to resolve the issue of the public debt.
No one is asking any questions. Will
the Lebanese citizens ever grow up? Allow me to reserve my doubts on this last
point.
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