Tuesday 5 September 2023

To regain power should the NDC step out of the shadow of conventional economic thinking?

To regain power, should Ghana's biggest opposition  party,  the National Democratic Congress (NDC), step out of the shadow of conventional economic thinking, dear critical-reader?

In that regard, what is the single most important step, in the period before the all-important and pivotal
2024 presidential and parliamentary elections, which should be taken, by the NDC,  in terms of the economic policies that it intends to implement, to put our national economy back on track, and enable the private-sector to successfully power our country's transformation, from debilitating-bankruptcy,  to shared-prosperity, which  redounds to all societal demographics, equally?

Those policy proposals, which the NDC, ought to have available, for evaluating, by voters and society generally, must be available well before the all-important and pivotal 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections.

Those proposed policies must be able to convince Ghana's independent-minded, and  passionately patriotic citizens, that the NDC will be a far better alternative, to the ruling New Patriotic Party  (NPP), at that particular juncture, of our nation's chequered history.

As most unbiased political observers will  opine,  protecting the national interest, above seeking party advantage, matters a great deal to Ghana's demographic of independent-minded and passionately patriotic citizens.

For such individuals, politics is ultimately about whatever policies (proposed for implementation by governments-of-the-day), are in the overall best interest of ordinary  Ghanaian families, and its demographic of well-educated and apolitical citizens, equally,  at any given point in time, at all material times.

To begin with,  the NDC's leading lights,  need to demonstrate clearly, that they are aware that to be successful,  the party's  economic management team will have to step out of the shadow of conventional economic thinking.

That is precisely what America's creative and innovative 1930s Great Depression leader, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, understood perfectly, and, was guided by,  as he fashioned bleeding-edge state interventionist-policies, which ultimately ensured that America's private sector-led national economy,   was put back on to a path-of-growth,  which powered the unprecedented  prosperity that transformed post-depression America, into the most prosperous nation, and the mightiest military power,  ever,  in the history of human civilisation.

That said, with the greatest respect, those that the  NDC has been relying on to convince Ghanaians that the NDC can lead Ghana to shared-prosperity for all its societal demographics, Hon.  Charles Adongo and Hon. Atto Cassels Forson, simply don't cut it, alas. They are much of a muchness, who are a poor-version of the disastrous  Mahammudu Bawumia/Ken Ofori-Atta/Yaw Osafo Marfo troika-of-national-impoverishment, which bankrupted our beloved country, while enriching themselves from piling up debt upon debt,  upon debt, to recoup the vast sums they spent sponsoring the three attempts by President Akufo-Addo, to win the presidency. To regain power, the NDC must step out of the shadow of conventional economic thinking. Yooooooooo...

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