PDOIS is a political party whose aim is to do its part in returning the tools of governance to the people where it rightly belongs. When the tools are in the hands of the governed, they can mould their lives and livelihood including their relations with other peoples of the world.
Your original thought and writings and those of any other individual are all that they are: Individual. Once you marry those thoughts with those of your colleagues, you can begin to realize variety in thought and programme of action. I am an entrpreneur, but a member of the community. How do I or Jabou reconcile the two?
Being part of a community of citizens, there are norms and manner of contracts between myself and the next citizen, and the next citizen, and the next citizen to include the whole community. My industry and entrepreneurship must reflect an understanding among us if that entrepreneurship is to prosper and benefit the community at large otherwise I might as well retire to my cave and live ever-after till thy kingdom come. For example:
I would have to understand that the others are willing and able to consume what I produce or the service I render. My pricing structure has to reflect what the market can bear and that their is benefit in my industry to cater to consumer desire and taste. That desire and taste is a product of culture, habit, tradition, and vision for a larger market. If I am a manufacturer, I have to procure raw material from producers. In the case of food processing, the farmers toil, aided by nature and good management. They then have to set prices for their produce based on the value of their energies and time with a certain profit margin and taking into account their operational and marketing costs to bring their produce to the marketplace. For uniformity and to guard against hoarding and corruptibility, similarly situated farmers may come together in a cooperative to establish value for their toil and market such. I refer you to books on microeconomics, marketting, and policy development.
Ideas of socialism should not discourage or hamper producer-consumer relations regardless of how you package them. If you find otherwise in economics and marketing resources, I'll refer you to PDOIS suggestions for matters germaine to the Gambian condition. Customization my dear!!
Feel free to protract this basic principle to other areas of life and life-management. Share it with your friends. PDOIS' work will have made sense to you.
One of the problems Free Enterprise is encountering is that it already assumes an educated citizenry. You find out you need a lawyer to regurgitate to the judge what you had known all along. You need an accountant to visualize the state of your enterprise. You need a doctor to tell you that it you had taken your apples and brushed daily, you would not have distracted him/her from the multiple by-pass he was performing. I will leave conflict and wars to human relations and law unless you need further assistance in those areas. However, I'm confident your capacity for deductive reasoning nurtured by teachings of the likes of PDOIS will have armed you with the tools necessary for self-education. Then you can join the community of citizens to determine your menagerie. Bah c'est assez simple.
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>Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:47:23 -0400
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>Ms. Joh and Malik Kah, I know you people desperately want to talk
>about
>PDOIS programs. Your problem is you do NOT have the wherewithal to
>tell us
>something substantive because frankly you do NOT understand PDOIS
>programs.
>All I see from you is regurgitating verbatim what Halifa Sallah
>wrote or
>what Sidia Jatta said as if that is the gospel. This is the type of
>behavior
>that makes Hamjatta’s claim that you people are fanatics, credible.
>None of
>you can point to one single original material you wrote. Ms. Joh, I
>categorically asked you several times to articulate PDOIS economic
>policies
>for us and reconcile thus with your entrepreneurial spirit. No
>answer apart
>from that I should know. I know PDOIS policies. I also know that you
>do NOT
>understand PDOIS policies. That is why I want to expose your
>ignorance. How
>are we going to solve our groundnut problem? How are we going to
>solve our
>foreign exchange problem? How are we going to solve our inflation
>problem?
>How are we going to put medicine in our hospitals? How are we going
>to
>educate our children?
>
>The G_L archives are replete with postings from people like me,
>Hamjatta,
>Ebrima Ceesay (to name a few) giving original solutions to these
>problems.
>Political novices and semi-illiterates like you took cover when
>giants were
>discussing heavy economic issues in the country. Mental midgets lurk
>in the
>dark when people are talking about tough issues and only surface
>when the
>mudslinging and gutter talk starts.
>
>Keep hallucinating that only PDOIS is discussing the issues that
>matter to
>the people back home. The contempt with which you people hold the
>Gambians
>is just mind-boggling. Have it ever occurred to you that perhaps the
>(stupid) Gambians you people want to enlighten are smarter than you?
>Have it
>occurred to you that the (stupid) Gambians perhaps understand PDOIS
>programs
>very well but have REPUDIATED PDOIS? Is it NOT disturbing to you
>that OJ
>just returned to the political scene and was able to get from
>Serrekunda
>more votes to nominate Darboe than PDOIS got to nominate their
>presidential
>candidate?
>
>Ms. Joh and Malik Kah, if I have time off ATTACKING Yaya (the menace
>in our
>society), I will devote some time on you and PDOIS. I just hope that
>your
>masters back home appreciate what you guys got them into. You have
>been
>counseled on numerous occasions to focus on what you (PDOIS) can do
>for the
>Gambians in a future government and on Yaya (who slaughtered our
>children
>and who is currently looting our coffers). But I guess old habits
>die hard
>and apparently it takes more than you got for you to furnish
>coherent
>programs for your Party. Well, if you want to make defeating the
>Alliance
>the focus of your campaign, then rest assured that you are in for a
>fight.
>You will be treated the same way I treated vermin from AFPRC/APRC.
>
>Darn right, Malik Kah, that I hate Yaya. But NOT for the reason you
>think.
>Check the archives. I hate Yaya because he slaughtered our children.
>Everything else came after that declaration of war. I do NOT need
>any
>government to make it. I am NOT a loser like you that need to lie
>about a
>government to make it. And you still are a nonentity.
>KB
>
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