Sanitary Towels For Girls; Socialism Gone Mad

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Whatever 9 years ago

The state is right in helping them to take care of themselves well. Its an investment in them. What socialism has done is good

The state is right in helping them to take care of themselves well. Its an investment in them. What socialism has done is good
Angie 9 years ago

Excellent piece Phillip! The focus of social problems should be education, training & acquiring skills, not handing out free sanitary pads through loans. Poor children are hindered in their quest for education by these inadeq ...
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Excellent piece Phillip! The focus of social problems should be education, training & acquiring skills, not handing out free sanitary pads through loans. Poor children are hindered in their quest for education by these inadequate infrastructure such as, tree schooling. It is a gravest injustice in the 21st century for children to suffer by sitting in scorching heat just to learn. What happens when it rain? The truth of the matter is, most of these kids have the greatest chance of being a dropout than a girl on her monthly menses. How many of us can survive in such a deplorable learning environment? While sanitary pads for girls is a good gesture, it is not a PRIORITY for education. Providing appropriate learning environment & adequate tools for these kids should be the most important.
Blu 9 years ago

Great comment, Angie

Great comment, Angie
Owura 9 years ago

Mahama as a womanizer is obsessed with girls and their menses. One of the most stupidest social program ever implemented. This guy and his cohorts have no vision except to find silly ways and means to steal money from Ghana. ...
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Mahama as a womanizer is obsessed with girls and their menses. One of the most stupidest social program ever implemented. This guy and his cohorts have no vision except to find silly ways and means to steal money from Ghana. Ghana is doomed forever and should all blame the supreme court with its kangaroo judges. We are in this mess because they failed to interpret the law. Afari Gyan, Atuguba and General mosquito have imposed on us an inept president who is clueless about his functions as a leader.
Akos 9 years ago

Thank you phillip, I wish more people read this well informed article.

Thank you phillip, I wish more people read this well informed article.
IDRIS PACAS 9 years ago

Just read this: 'I don’t understand our obsession with education that it should be obtained at the cost of economic fundamentals. I have to stress again, what is this madness with education that both major parties are prepa ...
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Just read this: 'I don’t understand our obsession with education that it should be obtained at the cost of economic fundamentals. I have to stress again, what is this madness with education that both major parties are prepared to wreck the nation’s economy to achieve it?

Did you really hear yourself when you posed the above?

If people were properly educated especially to be patriotic, they probably wouldn't have wrecked Ghana as you're claiming.

Further, you said that some persons even argue that Hilter et al were good men. From that, you suggest that what is good depends on the individual and not on the society or nation. Thus, those in power also felt that procuring sanitary pads for girls is good.

I support that the money should have been used in putting up more school buildings. The only way to move Ghana forward is by properly educating our children. The emphasis in on 'proper'.

Anyway, you did well. Next time, try to avoid insulting words. Without them, your message may still be clearly heard.
Philip Kobina Baidoo 9 years ago

Regardless of how you skew it your president will remain forever the sanitary pad president.

Regardless of how you skew it your president will remain forever the sanitary pad president.
Cyanide 9 years ago

What was Mahama thinking with this sanitary pads nonsense? How long can they provide girls with this pads? This administration can't seem to use their Godgiving brain to think. Giving chiefs free trucks and girls sanitary pad ...
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What was Mahama thinking with this sanitary pads nonsense? How long can they provide girls with this pads? This administration can't seem to use their Godgiving brain to think. Giving chiefs free trucks and girls sanitary pads when some schools and roads are in bad shapes is a misplaced priority.
Playa 9 years ago

Thank you Angie for telling it like it is.

Thank you Angie for telling it like it is.
Jab 9 years ago

I just don't know what to say. Because our leaders lack ideas all they can provide is free this, free that. Next time they are going to promise free kids. I don't know where all this nonsense of free, free, free come from. If ...
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I just don't know what to say. Because our leaders lack ideas all they can provide is free this, free that. Next time they are going to promise free kids. I don't know where all this nonsense of free, free, free come from. If you are getting everything free why not produce children without thinking about how you are going to raise them. It all bores to lack of ideas from our leaders.
Levi 9 years ago

Ghana is finish if all the government is capable of doing is borrowing & not funding it on anything substantial but instead, distributing it freely, while the taxpayers is stuck with gargantuan debts.

Ghana is finish if all the government is capable of doing is borrowing & not funding it on anything substantial but instead, distributing it freely, while the taxpayers is stuck with gargantuan debts.
Watcher 9 years ago

Let them make pads and give some women jobs! Women constitute half the human race! So, solve the problem with this solution: Go read the article 3 March 2014 in BBC World Service titled: "The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary ...
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Let them make pads and give some women jobs! Women constitute half the human race! So, solve the problem with this solution: Go read the article 3 March 2014 in BBC World Service titled: "The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary" (Just cut and paste the article name in your search engine.) Invite Muruganatham to Ghana (he wants to expand to other countries). One of his relatively inexpensive machines can employ 10 women and make sanitary pads for 3,000 women at 1/3 the cost of buying pads from the multinationals. And, it's a woman to woman business. I think there is also a YouTube on Menstrual Man. Sanitary Pads are an important issue. Solving through World Bank loan not the solution. But, the problem definitely needs attention for all impoverished women not just school girls. Keep problem-solving and GO READ AND WATCH. And, while we are on the topic, why not more toilets, even if they are pit toilets, with locks, solar lights (with a wire cage over the solar panel so it can't be easily stolen), and waterless hand soap? Hygiene needs to be encouraged and women need to feel safe in taking care of their intimate needs.
Watcher 9 years ago

On ghanaweb By DailyGuide 17 July 2014

"On a year-on-year basis, domestic interest payments grew by 101.5 percent, representing very high domestic borrowing in 2013 to finance the deficit."

And

Government paid a tota ...
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On ghanaweb By DailyGuide 17 July 2014

"On a year-on-year basis, domestic interest payments grew by 101.5 percent, representing very high domestic borrowing in 2013 to finance the deficit."

And

Government paid a total of GH¢4,397.0 million as interest on loans it accessed last year, 37.6 percent higher than the budget target of GH¢3,194.4 million. Of this amount, domestic interest payment constituted 86.2 percent, recording 47.2 percent, which was higher than the budget target.
Mankind 9 years ago

Philip I love you. what a brilliant essay.
I hope some bigots don't start criticizing you. Be blessed!

Philip I love you. what a brilliant essay.
I hope some bigots don't start criticizing you. Be blessed!
Omanhene 9 years ago

We are been govern by criminals and clueless brains .very sad.But this lazy zongo people and their crazy ewes will always que and vote for them.

We are been govern by criminals and clueless brains .very sad.But this lazy zongo people and their crazy ewes will always que and vote for them.
Kofi Yesu 9 years ago

YES, you have said it all. Social engineering projects such as SADA breed ALIENATION, CONTEMPT AND HOSTILITY.

God bless you.

YES, you have said it all. Social engineering projects such as SADA breed ALIENATION, CONTEMPT AND HOSTILITY.

God bless you.
Concerned Citizen 9 years ago

Great article Phil !Whenever I read such intelligent articles on the Ghanaweb,Ialways expect a meagre response. What does that tell us? Something is really wrong with our society at large. The majority of our populace are bin ...
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Great article Phil !Whenever I read such intelligent articles on the Ghanaweb,Ialways expect a meagre response. What does that tell us? Something is really wrong with our society at large. The majority of our populace are binged in mediocrisy. What is supposed to make sense, doesn't make sense these days. Thank you Rawlings and co., for killing our entrepreneurs and intellectuals,driving our most brilliant professionals who dared to open their mouth away to clean the white man's buttom abroad to make a living, or stay at home and stick your tail between your legs, and a stupid genocide, supported by the populace. I find it very naive of Ghanaians to say this will never happen again in our country. If we don't put our brains together to prevent this, that is for sure where we are heading towards.
kwadwo. 9 years ago

I enjoyed it. Keep them coming.

I enjoyed it. Keep them coming.
J.K 9 years ago

Ghana need devine intervension

Ghana need devine intervension
Kwame 9 years ago

The capitalist in this country said that the state can not be in production and service sector. A state under such condition collect taxes and consume them. It is an undeniable fact that some states collect tax for war, which ...
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The capitalist in this country said that the state can not be in production and service sector. A state under such condition collect taxes and consume them. It is an undeniable fact that some states collect tax for war, which is never productive and to undermine other states. Thus the state collect money to ferment trouble. Ghana has not been fermenting trouble anywhere, thus I am of the view that we have been using our money wisely.
Akua 9 years ago

I think you enjoying somehow from their incompetence. What a childish analysis

I think you enjoying somehow from their incompetence. What a childish analysis
Queen 9 years ago

Kwame, did you wake up from the wrong side of the bed for you spewed such rubbish?

Kwame, did you wake up from the wrong side of the bed for you spewed such rubbish?
Onipaba 9 years ago

I hope you will not allow the ignoramuses to distract you. Give us more of these thought provoking articles. I wish there just one within the ruling class who could think the way you do.

I hope you will not allow the ignoramuses to distract you. Give us more of these thought provoking articles. I wish there just one within the ruling class who could think the way you do.
Ewurasi 9 years ago

Thanks, Phil. Your article is one of the best have read online so far. I have not seen an administration that has lost it priorities so much as to providing sanitary pads when there are better things to invest in.

Thanks, Phil. Your article is one of the best have read online so far. I have not seen an administration that has lost it priorities so much as to providing sanitary pads when there are better things to invest in.
GHANABA 9 years ago

Great article Phil,but do not confuse Socialism with a "plain and daft" policy of the crass Mahama"s govt.Great socialist like Bevan and Beveridge created the public funded NHS and the SOCIAL SECURITY as a virtuous and noble ...
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Great article Phil,but do not confuse Socialism with a "plain and daft" policy of the crass Mahama"s govt.Great socialist like Bevan and Beveridge created the public funded NHS and the SOCIAL SECURITY as a virtuous and noble course.Most Nordic countries do perfectly well with their socialist systems of gov"t.Tesla"s socialist instincts compelled him to give out his inventions without greed for money.Edison,on the other hand tried through a combination of greed and jealousy to destroy Tesla and Wessington.In the end Tesla died a pauper.
Philip Kobina Baidoo 9 years ago

You are knowledgeable and I love you for that. The points you raised are topic for another discussion.

Thank you very much

You are knowledgeable and I love you for that. The points you raised are topic for another discussion.

Thank you very much

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