Are all these promises realistic?
Friday, 26 December 2008
THE candidates for the election, specially the two chiefs of the major political parties, are promising to bring down the price of rice. How they are going to do that?
If they are discussing about imported rice, then it would mean that there would be two different prices, one for the locally produced and the other for the imported one.
Why? Because, as it is, the farmers are suffering because they do not get the proper price for their crop so it would be criminal to make them lose money further. Are these leaders promising that they will make the farmers even poorer if they are voted to power?
If they are seriously asked this, of course they would heatedly deny it. So what they are hinting is that we will eat cheaper imported rice when we feel like it and have the more expensive one that is the local variety when we think it is right. Right?
Sure, politicians make all kinds of promises, some of them outright outlandish and we have to listen to them, or change the television channel. But do we believe that they really mean what they say? Does the leopard change its spots?
The other day there was talk that such and such leader was saying a lot of good things, logical things, things that we all want to hear, all reasonable promises and propositions.
Okay, good, but does that mean this person's nature has changed? That suddenly overnight we will see a new leader, who is understanding, sensitive, worldly wise, competent and absolutely devoid of greed and vindictiveness? I personally would not believe that if my life depended on it.
All this is just to get to the seat of power, nothing more nothing less. If they had their best intentions for this country other than to grab power and then use that power for their own agenda, they would have done it before. Everyone has been in power at least once.
I personally believe in the people of this country. The people will take this country to new heights not our politicians.
MA Quasem
Purana Paltan
Dhaka
If they are discussing about imported rice, then it would mean that there would be two different prices, one for the locally produced and the other for the imported one.
Why? Because, as it is, the farmers are suffering because they do not get the proper price for their crop so it would be criminal to make them lose money further. Are these leaders promising that they will make the farmers even poorer if they are voted to power?
If they are seriously asked this, of course they would heatedly deny it. So what they are hinting is that we will eat cheaper imported rice when we feel like it and have the more expensive one that is the local variety when we think it is right. Right?
Sure, politicians make all kinds of promises, some of them outright outlandish and we have to listen to them, or change the television channel. But do we believe that they really mean what they say? Does the leopard change its spots?
The other day there was talk that such and such leader was saying a lot of good things, logical things, things that we all want to hear, all reasonable promises and propositions.
Okay, good, but does that mean this person's nature has changed? That suddenly overnight we will see a new leader, who is understanding, sensitive, worldly wise, competent and absolutely devoid of greed and vindictiveness? I personally would not believe that if my life depended on it.
All this is just to get to the seat of power, nothing more nothing less. If they had their best intentions for this country other than to grab power and then use that power for their own agenda, they would have done it before. Everyone has been in power at least once.
I personally believe in the people of this country. The people will take this country to new heights not our politicians.
MA Quasem
Purana Paltan
Dhaka