Saturday, March 15, 2014

Conakry Vs. Beirut

Beirut, March 15, 2014.
This Blog comes out on the day after the newly appointed Lebanese government declared it had internally agreed on its manifesto declaration. Let's hope this happens and the government gets sworn in parliament next week.
What would have happened if not? how deep will the Lebanese Economy could still dive under water? The answer that I keep repeating is as low as Conakry. You have much more economic similitudes that differences between Beirut and Conakry.
Traffic Jams, Bureaucracy, French Mandate, Bureaucracy, Slogans, Bureaucracy, Regional Crop Exporters, Bureaucracy, Education (Conakry boasts of 45 universities) , Bureaucracy, Rich Underground, Bureaucracy, Drained Moral Values, …. the most important is the general decrease in purchasing power and drifting to poorer and poorer lifestyles leading to hunger and famine with time.
Instead of listening to Michel Hayek and Leila AbdelLatif, fellow Lebanese can easily see their future by looking at where Conakry is now, it is five years ahead of Lebanon. Lebanon is sinking behind Guinea Republic year after year, both countries are going down irreversibly.
Lebanon is a Water regional power and potentially oil and gas, while Guinea leads the world statistics in all mineral reserves.