Time for Hard Decisions And Actions

Posted to the web 23 July 2008 Your Excellency: When you took the gavel of authority of the republic though the country's first-ever challenged presidential elections in 2006, you made it clear to the Liberian people that things had gone so terribly wrong and awry in the country that you will have to make hard decisions and take appropriate actions to jumpstart Liberia's recovery process. You did not say at the time what the hard decisions and appropriate actions would entail, but we take it that you will do any and everything that ties this nation to its forbidding past - a past where the rule of law was secondary and selective; where corruption was part of the official ball game, where patronage and presidential largesse overruled systematic economic planning and sustained, meritorious job placement; where the economy ran... [read full story]