POLITICS AND PROMISES

in #nigeria6 years ago

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A boy sat on Santa’s lap on Christmas Eve and asked, “Sir, aren’t you really a politician?”
“No!” he protested. “Why do you ask?”
“Well,” he said, “you make more promises than you can deliver.”😂😂😂
Promises are part of day to day living and often they fly like stray bullets. People especially politicians give us their sugar coated word, expect us to count on their word and take it to the bank, only to forget they made such promise or change their mind. Most people do intend to keep their word. But then again, intentions only last, for many, until something more convenient or better comes
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Judging from the way of things in my country and Africa at large, I am left with this conclusion ‘‘I don’t need sex because my government fucks me every blessed day’’. I know one day I will have to apologies to my unborn kids and unmarried wife for this but how do I become the kind of husband you’ve seen in movies and cartoons since you were little when I can’t even provide for you something as little as food.
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Their national anthem has become ‘‘there is no money, the country is broke’’ but where are all the millions and billions of naira and dollars being looted every minute of the day coming from? 😨 You… fat potbellied ugly fuck rolling in expensive car and sleeping in a house bought with the common wealth of the people.
But your promise didn’t include fucking us to death with high tax rate so your wife can afford a new per of shoes and your kids a fancy education in Harvard or Preston.
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Africa leaders will rather die on seat than to cede power to somebody else e.g. Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and the sad thing is they keep saying the youth is our future. No Mr. Politician, the youth being the future might be the case in western world but not in Africa definitely not Nigeria pftt because in your books, the old is the past, they are the present and even the future so stop all your tip of the tongue lies because one day nemesis will certainly catch up with you.
Abraham Lincoln once said ‘‘why depend on the government for solutions when they are the cause of the problem in the first place’’.
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Well put, I love your voice in this. "I don't need sex because my government fucks me every blessed day" 😂 There's always a difference between the percieved intentions and actual intentions of leaders... Selfishness will only run a people into the ground!

From Tao Te Ching:

“The best leaders are those the people hardly know exist.
The next best is a leader who is loved and praised.
Next comes the one who is feared.
The worst one is the leader that is despised.

If you don't trust the people,
they will become untrustworthy.

The best leaders value their words, and use them sparingly.
When she has accomplished her task,
the people say, "Amazing:
we did it, all by ourselves!" (17)

Thanks for sharing in my thoughts.

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