Last week, for the first time in decades, the Minister of Finance stood before parliament to tell us that he would pickpocket us to finance government spending if you like. That is how far down the road our country has gone. It is proof, if any, was ever required of the extent to which the Masisi government threw fiscal prudence out the window. One shudders to think of what would happen now had he been given another bite at the cherry. The fiscal situation would be worse than it is now, and we are lucky that the voters decided there would be no second term in the offing for him.
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