How You Know You're A Liar

According to Sithanen that would be claiming that it is possible to reduce the VAT rate. Of course it is possible because when the VAT rate was increased from 10% to 15% we saw a lot of schools coming out of the ground while the Treasury building and Le Reduit were renovated. In contrast what did you see during the last 4.5 years in terms of new infrastructure despite that government bagged twice as much VAT on record oil prices from 2006 to 2007?

Another lie would be asserting that no country invests more than 50% of their reserves in gold. Which is what Sithanen repeated in an newspaper interview today adding that Vishnu's proposition is pure folly. Google disagrees and brings up the relevant wikipedia page. Here are the countries that are completely crazy according to the Minister who didn't know how to resign.

Haven't you had enough of his lies?

Another Non-event

That's what Friday's budget is going to be. Just like the previous ones. People are so fed up with the truckloads of lies that Sithanen has been dumping on them with such regularity that they've stopped listening to him for a long time now. And that reduction in interest has also spread to journalists across the board. For instance, many of them didn't even tune in to listen to his carefully choreographed appearance on MBC's Dossier last Wednesday. And it's kind of difficult to blame an overwhelming majority of us who feel this way.

While he certainly did appear quite pathetic on that programme the saddest part of his bean-counting policies is of course the unnecessary misery he has inflicted on the weaker segments of the population while making the richest ones richer.