Ebou,
I think you didn't really understand the concept of socialism with regards
to PDOIS and that of the way developing countries need to get of this
current mess. You need to revisit a PDIOS manifesto for the last election
too. I think that will help you to equip yourself with a comprehensive
background to start this debate. It is completely misleading for you to
simply imply that PDIOS have a "socialist outlook and others democratic".
Let me remind you what PDOIS stands for: Peoples Democratic Organisation for
Independence and Socialism. So i can't still understand how you come to your
conclusion. I will be glad if you can ellaborate on this. You might be right
about the economic ideology of PDOIS being different from the other parties(
which from my point of view is not that much different from that of any
gov't of any developing country that want to get out this mess). The main
point is that develop the productive base of the economy. This can be done
by investing in these productive sectors of the economy from the national
cake(budget) equally( on the bases of how much each of these sectors
contribute to the national wealth). It is not fair for one sector of society
to enjoy at the expense of others. In The Gambia for instance, some sectors
having contributing  to the national cake for decades without anything in
return, also the people have being paying taxes to their area councils and
gov't for ages without any development of any sort.
Ebou, just try and lay hand on that manifesto. You have all rights to differ
with this ideology, but do it with honesty and not by misleading our poor
masses. Stop misleading the masses about the ideals of PDOIS. The likes of
Ebou know that majority of our people can't read and it takes much effort
for  one to explain for them to understand these  ideals.
Most Fracophone countries have socialist gov'ts ruling for a long time since
independence. Senegal is one example in our midst. Prof. Shiekh Anta Jobe
and other Pan-African leaders having been advocating for these ideals as the
only way we can over come our plight and catch up with the trend of
globalization of our time.
You need to do more rearch and enlightening yourself about this subject
matter before we can start this debate proper. Later.

Peace!


>From: Ebou Jallow <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: What is NADD's Economic Agenda?
>Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 08:19:05 -0700
>
>NADD's economic agenda shall be a very interesting read in anticipation of
>a party manifesto and some few necessary clarifications.  Honestly, both
>Halifa and Waa have been systematically evasive on the truth of the facts.
>NADD was registered a political party and any other spinning of that fact
>into a "political entity" , "alliance" or "party of parties" is an absolute
>nebulous nonsense.  The IEC registers only political parties and nothing
>else.
>This brings us to a more troubling fact/problem about NADD:  how can one
>pull off a merger of diverse political platforms of rival parties into an
>effective union in law ? PDOIS is socialist in outlook, and essentially all
>the rest of other parties claim to be "democratic".  In effect one can
>reasonably expect NADD's economic agenda to be social democratic, i.e
>socialism and capitalism combined.  Such a syncretism engenders
>contradictions in practice:  Socialism is based on self-sacrifice, and
>Capitalism is fundamentally based on self-interest- it sounds like mixing
>oil with water.  The two are simply incompatible in a country with a weak
>economic base and low level of productivity such as the Gambia.
>
>In any case, I would love to see what NADD is all about as a political
>party.
>
>
>Ebou Jallow
>
>
>
>
>africa fest <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>does any one know whether such info is available somewhere? or do we have
>to wait until after the 2006 elections and if they win then it will be
>presented?
>
>latjor
>
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