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14 Sep

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13 Sep

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8 Sep

I downloaded Andrew Mwenda’s TEDTalks presentation and Generic Valium Does Look Like watched it last night. One of his main arguments was that Generic Valium Does Look Like aid makes the government fat, and that because of aid, governments are Generic Valium Does Look Like more attentive to the World Bank and the IMF than Generic Valium Does Look Like to their own citizens. Let’s elaborate on the Generic Valium Does Look Like argument a bit: governments know from whom they get money, and Generic Valium Does Look Like so strive more to satisfy their benefactors than their citizens. Mwenda makes the Generic Valium Does Look Like point that governments do not call the entrepreneurs among their citizens to Generic Valium Does Look Like discuss the development of the economies of the countries; instead, they listen to Generic Valium Does Look Like the people from whom a large chunk of the budget comes. I thought about this Generic Valium Does Look Like in relation to my country, Nigeria. I tried to imagine what Generic Valium Does Look Like percentage of the budget aid is. Just as I started thinking about this Generic Valium Does Look Like I remembered that Nigeria has oil, and that oil keeps the Generic Valium Does Look Like government rich.

Oil and Democracy

A political scientist, Michael Ross, wrote an article about resource curse. In the Generic Valium Does Look Like article, he builds a case for his argument that resources – chief of which, by the way, is oil – retard the Generic Valium Does Look Like development of democracy, partly because it frees the government of any dependence on the Generic Valium Does Look Like citizens. To bring this point home, let’s think about the Generic Valium Does Look Like percentage of Nigerians who are not employed in the organised private sector or Generic Valium Does Look Like in government, and then let’s think about how many of them pay any tax. Now, a Generic Valium Does Look Like government that does not have any resources has to depend on taxation from Generic Valium Does Look Like its citizens, and so has to look inwards. This is where Generic Valium Does Look Like aid comes in. If a country does not have resources but has Generic Valium Does Look Like a large chunk of its expenses taken care of by aid then Generic Valium Does Look Like that inward look does not seem to be needed

Another thing Mwenda pointed out was that Generic Valium Does Look Like government is the most attractive business in Africa. Again, let’s look at this Generic Valium Does Look Like in relation to Nigeria. There are people who get a job with a Generic Valium Does Look Like government ministry, go to work at about 11 in the morning and Generic Valium Does Look Like leave at about 1 in the afternoon. (I should throw in a Generic Valium Does Look Like quick word about many of the workers here. Most of the Generic Valium Does Look Like people who work in the ministries have to earn some money by the Generic Valium Does Look Like side to be able to take care of their families. Ingenious people that Generic Valium Does Look Like they are, while not working at the ministries most of them are Generic Valium Does Look Like busy at work on their own, most often trading.) The point is Generic Valium Does Look Like linked to a point made by Ross in his article: a Generic Valium Does Look Like government with resources is a rich government, something really attractive to Generic Valium Does Look Like a young person. The same point is also made by Mwenda in his presentation: since government makes money from Generic Valium Does Look Like aid, it is a rich and attractive option for young people who Generic Valium Does Look Like want to money. This point also ties in with the rent-seeking argument. With resource money, people in government can Generic Valium Does Look Like afford to keep a loyal team around themselves. If aid money provides more money for Generic Valium Does Look Like government it stands to reason to think that it might provide more money for Generic Valium Does Look Like politicians to attract more hangers-on.

Fears and Overreactions
If there are Generic Valium Does Look Like this many similarities between resources and aid, are there going to Generic Valium Does Look Like be more fatal similarities? Are we going to Generic Valium Does Look Like have people struggling to control government so that they can have Generic Valium Does Look Like access to aid (like in the Generic Valium Does Look Like case of civil wars that break out because of the desire of factions to Generic Valium Does Look Like control resources in a country)? Are we going to Generic Valium Does Look Like have governments buying arms and ammunitions with donor funding for the Generic Valium Does Look Like suppression of oppositions? Do we already have these situations? Am I simply overreacting. Actually, I hope I am overreacting.

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6 Sep

I had seen Rehab a couple of times but I didn’t really know much about Amy Winehouse until I saw a Generic Valium Does Look Like news piece on her on CNN. I don’t think I ever really paid much attention to Generic Valium Does Look Like her until then. I liked the sound of her voice, and Generic Valium Does Look Like her style. It was the same thing I liked about Joss Stone, at least her first album. (I haven’t had time to really listen to the other albums so I can’t really say much about them.) I have visited Amy Winehouse’s website Cheap Lunesta Buy, and Generic Valium Does Look Like I have listened to snitches and snatches of her sound and Generic Valium Does Look Like what I heard sound like what I would really enjoy. But this Generic Valium Does Look Like post is not really about her music, it is about her self-destructing streak.

She is Generic Valium Does Look Like 23, and she is on heroin, cocain and a host of other drugs, and Generic Valium Does Look Like I find myself wondering why this is happening to her. Somehow, it Generic Valium Does Look Like just sounds really sad. She is so out of control that Generic Valium Does Look Like her family is begging her fans not to buy her album till she cleans herself up. Maybe if I didn’t find her music as nice as I did I would simply write her in the Generic Valium Does Look Like Britney Spears group and forget about her….