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2022-04-08 India-Pakistan

Sri Lanka Asks Experts To Plan Debt Restructure As Protests Rage

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Posted by Fred 2022-04-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 ...One of the big problems here - and curiously missing - is that President Rajapaska ran on a platform of (among other things) going 'all organic' in Sri Lankan agriculture, i.e.; no fertilizer.

This worked about as well as you'd expect. There weren't crop failures - they just couldn't grow enough. Tea, Sri Lanka's major agricultural export, took a massive hit. What little money they had was needed to buy food, and it still wasn't enough.

In the meantime, the good people of Sri Lanka who elected this moron (and BTW, since his brother was Finance Minister, I'd be looking REAL hard at exactly where all that money went) are getting it good and hard, while The Gods Of The Copybook Headings ruminate with Robert Heinlein about the concept of 'bad luck'.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2022-04-08 07:49|| 2022-04-08 07:49|| Front Page Top

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