Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:58:54 -0800 [07:58:54 AM CST]
From: Eunice Thirikwa
Subject: Re: POLITICIANS AS DRIVERS OF ECONOMIES
are you sure of this?
“Prime Minister Raila Odinga , as our socialist Robin Hood, is being fought hard by die-hard elite in government for ?taking from the few rich to give the majority poor’. This only makes these capitalists in government to victimize ordinary Kenyans through Raila and ODM. They deny Kenyans a new constitution and gag the voice of the media while pulling the ODM leader on the ground off his party and leadership seat. These are the same human tumours that do not pay taxes.”
My take!
This guy is just one of them….no more no less…..they are all the same…the political class
none is better
— On Wed, 1/21/09, mundia mundia wrote:
From: mundia mundia
Subject: POLITICIANS AS DRIVERS OF ECONOMIES
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 12:18 PM
Friend, As the canines equivalent of some of our politicians continue to control our economy it is now certain to us that these ?money-persons’ with greed next to their hearts would still drive our cents off our senses into their elusive political coffers.
The daze of my imagination tells me that Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad recipe won’t work in Kenya or East Africa . This is due to differences in political ideology as environment for economic development. Environment comes first then the players and their systems of playing such games or players setting up a rich environment.
On the other hand the walking cancers of our parliament have made ordinary Kenyans be political windbreakers between PNU/ODM-Kenya and ODM politicians. These infecting wounds pass unfavourable bills in order to fight their political opponents with their pregnant amnesia.
The current violence of our politics only pounds harder with a prism of tribal sordidness as fellowship of crooks manipulate our intestines and grey matter giving birth to political uncertainty and unpredictable leadership in a lame coalition.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga , as our socialist Robin Hood, is being fought hard by die-hard elite in government for ?taking from the few rich to give the majority poor’. This only makes these capitalists in government to victimize ordinary Kenyans through Raila and ODM. They deny Kenyans a new constitution and gag the voice of the media while pulling the ODM leader on the ground off his party and leadership seat. These are the same human tumours that do not pay taxes.
An MP, as a petrol attendant would refuse to fuel your car tank, as he/she figures it out how to make you have a small container of kerosene for your Jua kali lamp (koroboto), but would like you to pay for the petrol.
Long ago there were no taxes in England and America though occasionally there were temporary levies to pay for wars. (Late December 2007 through early last year ?taxes’ were used to pay for post-election violence). In 1799, taxes were first levies in Britain . This was done to help fight Napoleon from 1799 to 1816. In America , levies were paid for the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865. It is only in 1874 that income tax became a permanent levy on citizens of Britain . The same happened in the US in 1913 with the adoption of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution.
Why aren’t Kenyan MPs (as politicians) being taxed? Is it to help continue bankrolling political campaigns and ethnic cleansing against those supporting their opposers? Do they do the financial lobbing in parliament and violent and deadly campaigns every other election year?
As a remainder, excessive tax on tea led to the famous Tea Party in Boston Habour that helped ignite the Revolutionary War in the US . It also took 50 years in both England and the US to sell the idea of a regular income tax.
In the Kenyan context, ordinary wananchi are being over-taxed. Food prices have gone up, wages are low as government minimizes on spending, business cartels, corruption and scandals are being engineered as protectionism, cushions the culprits. Outcome! More ?taxes’ for the ?government’ kitty and socio-political and economic instability.
Only recently corporations in form of political parties were re-registered and would be used as vehicles of power by the elite. Political parties would be used to limit the risk of individual leaders, their political assets and leadership capitalism. Such corporations protect and cushion the elite from individual incrimination when found guilty. This they do as they fall back to their party supporters and tribes. On my mind, MPs and the political elite are but hostile business persons with a yearning to be investors, brokers and handlers but with a forte in politics and its powers. Kenyans would always live on the brinks of poverty and for a very long time.
Mundia Mundia Jnr