The 5.2% Growth Means Almost Nothing

Especially when used in isolation or by an intellectually dishonest politician. Just like if you were in an operating room as the chief surgeon to do some brain surgery, you wouldn't send the patient home instead just because you thought she had great nail polish, would you? Or would you fly across the Himalayas aboard a plane having only a speedometer on its dashboard? I don't think so.

And what is there to brag about a 5% growth rate anyway? We've been growing at that rate for the past 17 years or so with and without Sithanen in government.