Comments on: Dear MP http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/ Unique - just like everyone else. Manufactured and bottled in Kenya Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mfas http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/comment-page-1/#comment-135173 mfas Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:27:34 +0000 http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/#comment-135173 M, most of these clowns will be around till 2012. So one to make them feel our wrath is to make them irrelevant. @Atsago, strong institutions is the way to go BUT who will legislate for the framework required to create/strengthen? M, most of these clowns will be around till 2012. So one to make them feel our wrath is to make them irrelevant.

@Atsago, strong institutions is the way to go BUT who will legislate for the framework required to create/strengthen?

]]> By: mfas http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/comment-page-1/#comment-135132 mfas Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:08:27 +0000 http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/#comment-135132 Well said...bottomline; we Kenyans have a very high threshold for BS which encourages these leeches. <div class="commentary">If only there was a way for them to feel our wrath!</div> Well said…bottomline; we Kenyans have a very high threshold for BS which encourages these leeches.

If only there was a way for them to feel our wrath!
]]> By: Ni2 http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/comment-page-1/#comment-135072 Ni2 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:23:11 +0000 http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/#comment-135072 @DonWorry <-- I AM worried :-) I hear you. All I am going to say is this. George Ayittey talks about Hippos and Cheetahs. You can get more on that talk here. (Read the transcript or watch the video). http://blog.ted.com/2007/08/premiere_george.php To mis-quote Forest Gump "And that is all I have to say about that". @DonWorry <– I AM worried :-)

I hear you. All I am going to say is this.

George Ayittey talks about Hippos and Cheetahs.
You can get more on that talk here. (Read the transcript or watch the video).
http://blog.ted.com/2007/08/premiere_george.php

To mis-quote Forest Gump “And that is all I have to say about that”.

]]> By: donworry http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/comment-page-1/#comment-135062 donworry Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:33:08 +0000 http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/#comment-135062 Dear Ni2, It will be hard to prove how blaming others can possibly help. Someone will always vote for someone other than your choice. The end result = nothing changes. It does not really matter who one actually votes for, in the end. The question should be why, in this day and age we should have people like X, Y and Z, well known crims standing as prospective candidates. Perhaps we should all individually and collectively accept that standards have dropped. That is why we have the leaders that we do and for that the blame lies squarely at your door............and mine. Dear Ni2,

It will be hard to prove how blaming others can possibly help. Someone will always vote for someone other than your choice. The end result = nothing changes.

It does not really matter who one actually votes for, in the end. The question should be why, in this day and age we should have people like X, Y and Z, well known crims standing as prospective candidates.

Perhaps we should all individually and collectively accept that standards have dropped. That is why we have the leaders that we do and for that the blame lies squarely at your door…………and mine.

]]> By: Ni2 http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/comment-page-1/#comment-135051 Ni2 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:27:55 +0000 http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/#comment-135051 @All the people who are saying we voted them in That aint true. I did not vote for the current MP in my constituency. So I dont see how it is my fault. I can not force other people to vote as I do. @Eclipse and @M Amen to that! @All the people who are saying we voted them in
That aint true. I did not vote for the current MP in my constituency. So I dont see how it is my fault. I can not force other people to vote as I do.

@Eclipse and @M
Amen to that!

]]> By: donworry http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/comment-page-1/#comment-135024 donworry Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:46:08 +0000 http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/#comment-135024 This was a lovely letter and I think M has placed it here as a double-edged sword. To expect MPs to do anything other than fatten their own backsides is like asking goats to vote for Christmas. For us to do the same thing every 5 years and expect different results says wonders of our collective intelligence. Same applies to the Federal Republic and to Zimbabwe A friend of a friend (who spoke with a tweng) was going to buy some ice ream for the kids. Her companion asked which of the kids she was buying it for. The friend replied, "both, ofcourse" ...later that day in the course of a conversation the companion was to say how nice that there was a cream one could buy to treat sores around a child's bottom region,. It wasn't her fault when her pal said ice-cream...it sounded just like...aaahhse cream This was a lovely letter and I think M has placed it here as a double-edged sword.

To expect MPs to do anything other than fatten their own backsides is like asking goats to vote for Christmas. For us to do the same thing every 5 years and expect different results says wonders of our collective intelligence. Same applies to the Federal Republic and to Zimbabwe

A friend of a friend (who spoke with a tweng) was going to buy some ice ream for the kids. Her companion asked which of the kids she was buying it for. The friend replied, “both, ofcourse”

…later that day in the course of a conversation the companion was to say how nice that there was a cream one could buy to treat sores around a child’s bottom region,.

It wasn’t her fault when her pal said ice-cream…it sounded just like…aaahhse cream

]]> By: prousette http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/comment-page-1/#comment-135007 prousette Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:53:30 +0000 http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/#comment-135007 That would be one painful piece to read if it was addressed to me. But...there is the other side of the story as well. MPs possess only one vote which means that someone somewhere added their vote to his/hers to make them the winner. Once during the campaign period I attended a church service and a candidate for the area MP happened to be in attendance too. Immediately after the service people queued beside the church for handouts from the MP without any shame, never mind that they swore under their breath never to vote for him. To say that I was shocked is an understatement. I guess the MPs are just recouping their investments. Oh, and this particular MP lost the seat. We truly have gotten the leaders we deserve. That would be one painful piece to read if it was addressed to me.
But…there is the other side of the story as well. MPs possess only one vote which means that someone somewhere added their vote to his/hers to make them the winner.

Once during the campaign period I attended a church service and a candidate for the area MP happened to be in attendance too.
Immediately after the service people queued beside the church for handouts from the MP without any shame, never mind that they swore under their breath never to vote for him. To say that I was shocked is an understatement. I guess the MPs are just recouping their investments.

Oh, and this particular MP lost the seat. We truly have gotten the leaders we deserve.

]]> By: dreddlocked1 http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/comment-page-1/#comment-135006 dreddlocked1 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:22:24 +0000 http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/#comment-135006 This will sound like it is out of left field but bear with me a moment: It seems as if i've heard this argument before, it was worded differently but it struck the same chords. It sees as if we have said all this before; it was last year as we envisioned change, it was 5 years ago, when we were promised change. It was 20 years ago, when we knew change was inevitable, it was 25 years ago when we possessed the land...change, change, change...is it me or do it seem like the more things 'change' the more they stay the same?? Ali Baba and the 400 thieves believe, (and we constantly confirm) that they can do no harm/damage that another unkept promise wont clear up. With out a system of checks and balance, they can 'steal at will'...with the ppl making the money that they do, and taxes being what they are, Nairo(bery)should look like, and feel like, a thriving Metropolis...i am sick and tired of being sick and tired of our government. Power of the people?? I dont think so...Power to the people-sorry wrong continent...someone should shoot the b@$tard$ to put US out of their misery... dreddlocked This will sound like it is out of left field but bear with me a moment:
It seems as if i’ve heard this argument before, it was worded differently but it struck the same chords. It sees as if we have said all this before; it was last year as we envisioned change, it was 5 years ago, when we were promised change. It was 20 years ago, when we knew change was inevitable, it was 25 years ago when we possessed the land…change, change, change…is it me or do it seem like the more things ‘change’ the more they stay the same?? Ali Baba and the 400 thieves believe, (and we constantly confirm) that they can do no harm/damage that another unkept promise wont clear up. With out a system of checks and balance, they can ‘steal at will’…with the ppl making the money that they do, and taxes being what they are, Nairo(bery)should look like, and feel like, a thriving Metropolis…i am sick and tired of being sick and tired of our government. Power of the people?? I dont think so…Power to the people-sorry wrong continent…someone should shoot the b@$tard$ to put US out of their misery…

dreddlocked

]]> By: atsango http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/comment-page-1/#comment-135003 atsango Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:34:05 +0000 http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/#comment-135003 Let's be real...if you had the power to determine whether YOU should be taxed or not, what would you choose...and what if you could set your own salary? Would your payslip be reading the same amount it reads now? Just a thought. Poor structures lead to monsters! Let’s be real…if you had the power to determine whether YOU should be taxed or not, what would you choose…and what if you could set your own salary? Would your payslip be reading the same amount it reads now?

Just a thought. Poor structures lead to monsters!

]]> By: VituVingiSana http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/comment-page-1/#comment-134997 VituVingiSana Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:51:50 +0000 http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2008/06/dear-mp/#comment-134997 I hope Mzalendo publishes the names of each MP who votes against taxing their salaries... then we can vote the bastards out... I hope Mzalendo publishes the names of each MP who votes against taxing their salaries… then we can vote the bastards out…

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