Three harakas.
In this times of bald-faced corruption, kleptocracy and nepotism, one finds oneself in strange alliances. Ranil giggling with CBK, forming a National Congress with Mangala. In this time where Sri Lanka can either choose to descend into African-style leadershit or a checked and balanced democracy, even the JVP is starting to make sense. For the record, if the JVP truly wants to ‘hit out at government incompetence‘ they might consider, um, leaving the government. However, anybody stating the bleeding freaking obvious is welcome. The government is bankrupting the country. They are enlarging the bloated and cancerous state sector, letting more and more Rajapakse spawn into the treasury and printing more money. What this means is that you, I and the fishmonger have less money in our pockets than last month through the scourge of inflation. When Mahinda stays at the Ritz and jet-sets to Beverly Hills with 65 free-loaders, that’s our money. When he prints money to cover the deficit, it makes your money worth less. When he tries to borrow $500 million on an HSBC credit card to avoid transparency, that debt is passed onto our children. As retarded as the JVP’s own economic policy is, this is even too far for them.
To quote the mirror:
“Addressing the 10th annual convention of the Ceylon Teachers’ Services Union, JVP Trade Union Wing Leader K.D. Lal Kantha attributed the skyrocketing Cost of Living to the government’s short sighted economic plans.
“The government injected money into circulation expecting that it could double the productivity by the end of the year, But the production of goods and services did not increase as expected thus causing further inflation,†he said.
“Even if the government comes up with a political budget it will get into further trouble as it will has to increase the salaries of public servants, resolve their salary anomalies, provide subsidies and more importantly reduce the tax burden,†he said commenting that President Mahinda Rajapaksa was good at every exercise except governing the country.
“He is extremely busy attending funerals, weddings and opening ceremonies but he is not solving key- problems affecting the people. The government has failed to ensure the economic growth though it is concentrating on the war front.
If the government continues to fail to achieve economic growth it would result in the failure in all its efforts including the maintenance of the war,†he said.
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“When the government takes loans from international monetary agencies at low interest rates,
it should explain how the funds are going to be used. But now the government is planning to take a loan from a private bank consortium and higher interest rates because the monies could be spent at its own will. So the President could spend the money to roam around the world with a 100 member team or pay huge salaries to consultants who are so feeble that they cannot even get out of their beds,†he said.
When the JVP starts making economic sense, you know we have well and truly elected an incompetent. Well, not we exactly, as entire provinces of Sri Lanka were disenfranchised this election. This admist Thamilselvans (the smile to the LTTE’s death’s head) admitting that Basil did meet with the LTTE making Mr. 10% a liar. The deeper allegation, which Thamilselvan denies, is that the LTTE and Mahinda conspired to deny people in the North and East the vote as a result of those meetings. But I digress. Mahinda cannot fight this war if he cannot fund this war, and we are too poor a country to support this pack of rajas. If the JVP really thinks this government is incompetent they should withdraw from it and join the opposition. Budget time, inshallah.
If jvp withdraw from the government, it will give an opportunity for a feeble leader to come into power (Ranil), this will strengthen LTTE power in the parliament through Their representatives ,plus LTTE will surely push forward to recapture their lost territories in North and East which will cause more havoc to the economy & people live in that area. At least we don’t have BOMBS exploding in Colombo, that is something. Don’t forget that UNP is now opposing the federal state they have promised to LTTE during the peace talks. We need a good leader with good policies, until then Mahinda can’t be defeated.
Hey Indi – those are three mee-harakas, not just the regular harakas
buffaloes not cows. that will make him understand
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anyway how disparate can indi/padashow get !
it seems as long the bunch of corrupt officials and politicians he and his family support and works/worked for get in, he is willing to suck up to even to jvp, principles or no principles . as i said at this rate he would be spouting marxist rubbish soon. ( however he should check his numbers jvp left early this year, buffalo has a majority without them)
as for principles, no one expects principles from padashow/indi
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it is always good that corruption is denounced, but when ppl who have allegedly benefited from corruption do it we want to throw up.
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does indi.padashow believe with long line of politicians that eliminating ‘corruption and waste ‘ will balance the budget ? does he have any idea about the numbers involved ?
state sector is bloated but where is the advocacy of privatization in this blog ? where is the advocacy for reduction in subsidies ? those are the things that will balance budget. in the process those things will reduce corruption and waste on a more solid basis, not the other way around. less discretion politicians and officials (connected with indi’s family or not) have, the better
does he support privatization of education and other services ? does he support elimination of fuel, wheat flour, paddy, and fertilizer subsidies? does he know that all that will stop ‘printing’ of money? ( may be he thinks printing money means actual printing of paper money ? ). if he support those why do we hear nothing about them?
does have any idea that government has to a degree done some of that this year and stopped ‘printing’ excess money ? ( or does he believe as unp propaganda says, that government increased the price of bread and petrol bc buffalo and his bloated henchmen stayed in a fancy hotel in america ?) – given his recent parroting of unp statements i believe he goes for the second answer.
does he know that one of the benefits of tapping capital markets is that government will be forced to keep a tight control on its spending ( which means mainly as far as numbers go, that subsides and public sector will have to be kept down ). if they don’t markets will punish gosl swiftly. but to this idiot’s simplistic thinking borrowing from capital markets is a unmitigated disaster. may be he thinks sri lankans are as stupid as he is.
may be he would understand if we explain like this – credit cards balances ( of ppl who don’t expect their allegedly corrupt parents to pay them) don’t last till children grow up and borrowing from capital markets wont last till next election.
ranil (who is not a fool like indi) knows better and rightly fears the effect (on his own election prospects ) of market enforced fiscal management on this government.. after all ranil’s main credential is that he is supposedly better at economic management but if markets force buffalo to do all that in spiste of himself , and we see the effects in a year or two ( in fact signs are are already there) what is ranil going to stand on ? growth is already better and if subsidies etc are in control inflation will be down( in fact it is going down). ranil will have even less hope than at present bleak ones . no wonder he is in a panic mood calling businessmen ‘exploiters’ in the process to scuttle this loan
and no wonder that ppl who work for him and their dependents are so desperate .
This is an open challenge to Sittingnut.
I am Indi Samarajiva’s father–Rohan Samarajiva. He is 25 years old and an adult. What he writes in his blog is business; what I write is my business. I think the logical thing for a person who disagrees with Indi’s writing is to debate him on the content of his argument; not attack him personally. But by the general standards of debate I have seen here, I guess personal attacks on the speaker are okay.
What his parents have to do with his opinions, is something I have difficulty in understanding. However, if Sittingnut wishes to state his claims of alleged corruption I am willing to defend myself.
For the record: I was invited to serve as Director General of Telecommunications by the Minister of Telecom in the Mrs Chandrika Kumaratunga’s government, Mr Mangala Samaraweera. I served the period I had agreed to, 18 months, and returned to the US. I was invited to return to Sri Lanka in 2002 by the Minister of Economic Reform in Mr Ranil Wickremesinghe’s government, Mr Milinda Moragoda. I served as team leader in that Ministry until May 2004 and chose to stay back in Sri Lanka. In both cases, my appointments were made by Cabinet.
Eh, I’m done with this business. If you don’t like me or my family that’s wholly your business. I wish you and your family well. I don’t make a habit of reading personal attacks, but perhaps other people will for whatever points may be buried in the bile. May you be well, peaceful and happy
Indi is a third class journalist – he shows his anger in his posts .
He is a shame for his father – he may now wish not to have a son of this nature.
As far as I can see Indi is a blogger and not a paid journalist. Why cannot he express his views in his personal space?
If you disagree with him, come with some sensible response instead of personal attacks.
I fully understand Indi’s frustration about the utter corrupted and utter inefficient rule of Adniham Askapajar. Typical born loser. I do not think we never had any leader as incompetent as this after his names sake in 1017 AD.
Who does not get frustrated in this country when it is in such a mess?
i will make three general points first
first with regard to personal attacks i am sure indi who maintains a blog under the name padashow will know more about them than i perhaps be ever be able to know or engage in, not to mention this blog. i will however reciprocate with my limited ability, as i have always said, when attacked.
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btw in case this lame point is brought again ; my name and details are and has been always available to anyone through email on a reciprocal basis . just ask if you want for some reason.
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to remind everyone that i did make other points besides the points that padahow and his father choses to focus on.
corruption’s relative importance compared to subsides and bloated public sector, his total silence on those and their remedies, padashow’s own desparate subservience to his and his families political allies revealed through the points he is making , benefits of tapping capital markets, his sucking up to jvp disregarding principles, his hypocrisy in other points than ones discussed below ,etc.etc.
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to rohan samarajiva aka indi.padshow’s father :
i love challenges. but this one is misdirected , you should issue it to your son.
however i have in fact already explained this here. i will say again what i said in the earlier thread , i am doing (after clearly stating so) exactly what indi is doing here with regard to allegations of corruption.. when he comes out with sources for his allegations ( which he does not even admit to be allegations as i do ) i will point out ( perhaps with even more details since generally he is not good with details) that exact same kind of allegations can be made against you with similar sources. i am waiting for him to start , you are welcome to wait with me.
and imo (as i again said before) as far as politicians and their political appointees ( you are one ) go, one would rather not be too skeptical when those allegations are made. may be you disagree? your son will agree if he does not want to contradict himself
in addition as indi so clearly says again and again( one of the few things on which i tend to agree with him), sri lankan polity is corrupt and anyone who is involved is necessarily corrupt. at present he accuses ppl of corruption and by logic you should clearly be one of those attacked if he is not a hypocrite. in the previous thread i pointed out the omission of your name. did you miss that?
( to make it clear, my disagreements with indi are on other points than existence of corruption in sl. for example my disagreements with regard to above post in addition to already pointed out hypocrisy with regard to his family’s corruption , see the third point i made at the top)
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you ask what does your conduct and work has to do with him ? i think that should be clear from previous section above. in any case it is called hypocrisy, which is a point i was making all along. it is in fact no different from malaka silva (how old is he ?) just a matter of degree
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as i said “it is always good that corruption is denounced, but when ppl who have allegedly benefited from corruption do it we want to throw up.” you are free to disagree.
may be you do not throw up when that happens :-)
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to indi.padshow
thanks for the wishes regarding my family. :-)
as i said before you are free to focus on my aversion to padashow, which i never( even at the time i did not know it was you ) concealed nor wish to conceal , and disregard the rest. you are free to remain blind or hypocritical if you wish. it is always your choice. ppl are responsible for their own actions and will pay for them.
as such you are also free to deny other things as well; that your family is corrupt, that you do read my comments, that you do sometimes answer my comments under your own or other names, etc etc. in the same way as you denied you are padashow( which i believed once as i said at the time in spite many warnings from other quarters) or your other denials you have already engaged in.
even marion jones denied she used steroids for long time . there is a good example for you to follow :-)
sittingnut can you please reveal us INDIs dark secrets, i can start an investigation on this matter immediately , this asshole is giving me & my brothers a hard time!, I was considering a white van but this way is better.
Sittingnut, what evidence do you have that can prove that Indi is the Padashow blogger?
read the past threads here esp the one where i first made the claim.
sorry i don’t deal in dark secrets or absurd conspiracy theories.
just with things that are open to all if they look. nothing works better than open air and light .
indi.padashow is easy to make out and is even more ridiculous and desperate than ranil or a monkey with its tail on fire . but since his fire is fueled by nothing more than his own you know whats no damages result.
as i said it before, it is not for such as him to set the world on fire
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confront him with his own falsehoods, contradictions, and hypocrisy, he will crumble if he can do even that . he is more likely to cover his eyes or at least claim he is covering his eyes ( see above)
“confront him with his own falsehoods, contradictions, and hypocrisy, he will crumble if he can do even that.”
If you can stop firing your gun at the air, and do the above, we can all have a good night’s sleep. So come on, get it over with already!
Gee…I guess you’ve made your claim very clear and logical, even we can understand what you say. We are with you all the way. We think you even deserve to be the president of the country.
Just straighten that shoulder, hold that upper lip tight and increase your inferiority complex, so that we can relate to you a little more.
I will first answer the question re the equation of Malaka-Mervyn relationship and myself-Indi.
The argument being made by many including Indi is that Malaka is engaging in unlawful acts by using the powers of his father who is a Minister. I am not a Minister. I am not part of the government. I am not using any public resources or powers conferred on me by government to support any actions by Indi, lawful or otherwise.
He is expressing various opinions. What has that to do with me?
Sittingnut states that he welcomes a challenge, but does not take one when offered.
He then continues to make unsubstantiated allegations.
The law of this country allows appointments to be made by Ministers and by Cabinet. There is nothing wrong with that. If you wish to question my qualifications for the positions I have held, please do so. But be specific.
Please substantiate the claim that Indi’s family is corrupt; i.e., that I am corrupt. Or apologize and keep me out of your diatribes.
Here is the definition for your reference:
70. *Any public officer who, with intent, to cause wrongful or unlawful loss to the Government, or to confer a wrongful or unlawful benefit, favour or advantage on himself or any person, or with knowledge, that any wrongful or unlawful loss will be caused to any person or to the Government, or that any wrongful or unlawful benefit, favour or advantage will be conferred on any person- (*part IV is repealed by act No. 2 of 1965)
(a) does, or forbears to do, any act, which he is empowered to do by virtue of his office as a public officer;
(b) induces any other public officer to perform, or refrain from performing, any act, which such other public officer is empowered to do by virtue of his office as a public officer;
(c) uses any information coming to his knowledge by virtue of his office as a public officer;
(d) participates in the making of any decision by virtue of his office as a public servant;
(e) induces any other person, by the use, whether directly or indirectly, of his office as public officer to perform, or refrain from performing, any act,
shall be guilty of the offence of corruption and shall upon summary trial and conviction by a Magistrate be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand rupees or to both such imprisonment and fine.
PLEASE STOP INSULTING these noble animals by suggesting that politicians are at the same level as Cattle/Cows/Buffaloes
Sittingnut stop making an ass of yourself. Padashow is/ was Electra and Morquendi. This is pretty widely known among some circles. I think you have misinterpreted something Indi said and people are playing along so you continue to look stupid. If one was being harsh, you could say your knowledge about what is going on in the blogging world is similar to your knowledge about what’s happening in the real world locally – simplistic, superficial and clueless about behind the scenes machinations.
Indi, are you working for Ceylon clearners my old mate?
you are challenging a elected govt from a free and fair election.
In countries like SL, you cannot have a so called 5-STAR demicracy.
If you guys need a so called 5-Star democracy, please get a life overseas as this country is going down the drain day-by-day……….
Sittingnut,
Thanks mate. I will never forget that you stood by me when I was in trouble. A friend in need is a friend indeed. I owe you a favor. Please do not hesitate to let me know if you want someone’s bones be crushed anyday, anytime. Myself and my father will be there with you.
hey Guys.,
this is a public forum and living in a democracy, we are sujected to accept a kind of a criticism and I dont understand the Samarajeeva -senior coming into defend his sonna.
Come on Indi., I am sure one day you can be a successful editor (or a scribe for some of you) like Lasantha W.., who have no journalistic ethic in this world and mind you as mentioned on yesterdays newspapers, Dr. Mervyn Silva have let his dirty linen washed by Lasantha W’s father as the guy was operating a laundry somewhere in Colombo.
Lucky Indi dude you are much qualified to replace Lasantha W., as your daddy is more qualified.
Quote sittingnut
“does have any idea that government has to a degree done some of that this year and stopped ‘printing’ excess money ? ”
The goverment did stop money printing in march/april but they have started it again further the goverment has busted 300 millon dollars to try and shore up the rupee by intervening in the forex markets which has stopped now, this haphazard dabbling in the economey is only one indication which shows goverment/cabraal has no economic strategey to get us out of the hole we are in.
Quote sittingnut again!
“does he know that one of the benefits of tapping capital markets is that government will be forced to keep a tight control on its spending ( which means mainly as far as numbers go, that subsides and public sector will have to be kept down ). if they don’t markets will punish gosl swiftly. Thats why concerned ppl are saying borrwing from the capital markets are a disaster. ”
this is just bullshit how the hell can tapping of global capital markets force MR to keep a tight control on spending? the lenders dont add conditions on the loan as development agencies who provide soft loans with very low intrest rates and far longer repayment periods do. MR can do what ever he wants with the money as long as the repayments are done on time. what will happen is MR family will spirit away the majority of the money to fat bank accounts while you(that is if you live in sri lanka) and I have to pay for the repayments.
” may be he thinks sri lankans are as stupid as he is.”
sri lankans ARE stupid thats why morons like you support MR even though he is taking us down an economic disater. We are a another zimbabwe in the making even worse as we will be saddled with a war
curious how “malaka silva’ (sorry “de silva”) and other anons come to indi padashow’s defense. but may be not, after all indi used to go to pro ltte appeasement rallies to hear mervin silva’s speeches.along with rest of mervin silva’s henchmen :-) does he deny that too?
sane:
what can i say! you clearly cannot read. :-)
what i said was as you quote-“stopped ‘printing’ excess money ” . every word is important .all governments ‘print’ money (you do understand what is meant by ‘print’, right? ) but do they exceed the ‘requirement’. this year sl government hasn’t. that is why inflation is coming down in spite of the increase in prices of fuel bread etc.
did i say anything about exchange rate ? you seems to thinks so . :-) for your information we do have a semi “managed” exchange rate so all governments have intervened. there are both advantages and disadvantages when a currency depreciates or appreciates.
ad hoc economic policies are bad, but since neither unp and slfp have any coherent one( ranil’s statements make his look like jvp’s as i said) we don’t have much choice. however we can praise and criticize when they do right or wrong things. and tapping capital markets was a right one.
” how the hell can tapping of global capital markets force MR to keep a tight control on spending? ”
well as i said indi.padshow and his friends do not know much about markets and how they work. get an economics text book and read. or just think logically bc as you correctly say “MR can do what ever he wants with the money as long as the repayments are done on time”. that is the only condition that really matter. :-)
btw mr has a democratic mandate to do what he wants subject to constitutional controls. may be you want a unp dictatorship, we don’t
btw where is the flag thing that used to be in this blog? then we will know who is in sri lanka and who is not . :-) wonder why it was discontinued? we can speculate . :-)
“sri lankans ARE stupid thats why morons like you support MR even though he is taking us down an economic disater. We are a another zimbabwe in the making even worse as we will be saddled with a war”
what economic disaster? give the numbers . only bad one is the inflation but even that is going down.. do explain how we can compare sl to zimbabwe with its contracting economy and 1000 %+ inflation?
but then may be you cannot do numbers, just prejudices.
shutup:
and who might you be? padashow’s mother? :-)
man, some ppl do run from taking responsibility for their own actions
there is only one way to interpret some of his statements before ( even without other evidence ); indi is padshow
did you take 3 weeks to think this up and my apolgies to everyone for including think and sittingnut in the same sentence
“but do they exceed the ‘requirement’. this year sl government hasn’t. that is why inflation is coming down in spite of the increase in prices of fuel bread etc.”
where the hell did you see that inflation going down? in october inflation jumped 3.8 to 19.6 check the goverments statistics
“well as i said indi.padshow and his friends do not know much about markets and how they work. get an economics text book and read. or just think logically bc as you correctly say “MR can do what ever he wants with the money as long as the repayments are done on timeâ€. that is the only condition that really matter. :-)”
do i have to spell this out to you ok i ‘ll try,
MR take Bond money, MR spend money with no plan,MR wate money, MR steal money, time come to pay up, no money so MR tell do magic and make more money, cabraal yes sir yes sir, cabraal print more money, poor country in more deeper trouble than before
There is that simple enough for you?
“btw mr has a democratic mandate to do what he wants subject to constitutional controls.”
democratic mandate? more likley prabakaran mandate by prohibiting ppl to vote.
“only bad one is the inflation but even that is going down”
only bad one? read the economics text book you suggested to find the indicators of a healthy economey and the consequences of a high inflation. by the way inflation jumped 3.8% in October is it me or you who cant do numbers?
“do explain how we can compare sl to zimbabwe with its contracting economy and 1000 %+ inflation?”
It you who cant read what i said was that “we are another zimbabwe IN THE MAKING”
but if you stick around another couple of years(if you are living in this country) and if MR is in power i may be able to accede to your request
any news from Indian embesy about education