Off to a good start

The country must take off.  That’s a bottom line. We have been maneuvering around the runway with no clear direction in mind. Or like a ship at sea, we are navigating aimlessly, unsure of the course to take, each shift on deck with its own course to plot.

There is a crisis . . . by whatever name the observers and analysts call it, or refuse to call it: financial crisis, fiscal crisis. Or the milder term “tough times,” which is but a euphemism for a serious situation of a financial or a fiscal crisis. The country needs resources to finance its burgeoning budget deficit, its mounting debts and its other obligations.