There are many big shots who continue to talk about ending business as usual but they fail to walk the talk. Before, during and after partisan political campaigning There are many big shots who continue to talk about the need to end business as usual. They talk before, during and after partisan political campaigning about the need to end business as usual to make Liberia better, but business as usual does not end and Liberia gets worse. This worseness is seen in the worsening living conditions of the poor vast majority of the people while the few big shots get richer. Do not take my word for it. Look at the facts, the data.
By Togba-Nah Tipoteh
National Legislators have access to at least LD200,000 a day and their foreign business partners have access to at least LD300,000,000 a day while nearly all of the suffering people of Liberia have access to at most less than LD300 a day (The Annual Reports of the CBL, LISGIS, MFDP, MCI, WB, IMF, ADB and UNDP). It is this worsening situation that has led the people of Liberia to declare that Liberia is headed in the wrong direction (Afrobarometer, 2022).
It was this bad condition that led the French Economist Piketty to conclude that income inequality within countries and between countries is becoming wider (Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology, Harvard University Press, 2022). This bad situation is the same that led the people of Liberia to also conclude similarly by saying that Liberia is headed in the wrong direction (CBL et all).
All of this bad condition means that the only way to end business as usual is to end the production of raw materials for export colonial system by using the production of raw materials locally to engage in manufacturing. This bad situation must be ended because it is the source of poverty generation. This change prioritizes Value Addition in Liberia, giving ownership to Liberians, providing employment to Liberians, enhancing local production, lowering prices, moving into income generation for Liberians and moving away from poverty generation, getting poverty alleviation vote and act regularly to change the bad electoral system to get good persons elected who can make decisions to improve the living conditions of the poor people sustainably,
It is only through the transformation of the unfair prevailing electoral system to the fair enduring electoral system that persons with good records can get elected to bring in the system of Justice, the indispensable ingredient for Peace and Progress in Liberia and in any other country. The raising of awareness approach to change the bad system into the good system is working well as seen in the voters of Liberia removal from their offices through the voting of October 10, 2023
