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WHY IT DOESN'T MATTER WHICH COALITION WINS: NASA OR JUBILEE



In two month’s time Kenyans will be going to the polls again. The only real choice Kenyans have is between Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta. All the other candidates clearly lack the numbers to upset the current political establishment. Our economy isn’t doing too great and with the rising cost of living, plummeting living standards, rampant job losses and appalling rise in national debt, the Jubilee government will be hard pressed to find answers or be thrown out in August. We can all make a pretty good stab at Jubilee’s failures but does NASA provide any real alternative or is it just another bunch of power hungry hard-left politicians craving “their chance to eat”? That is the question this articles attempts to answer.
Jubilee is coalitions of chaos. 4 years ago they romped into victory on the back of hundreds of bogus promises most of which have remained un-kept. Even the very nature of their victory was questionable, at least as far as CORD was concerned. All they have been saying is ‘You lost, we won, get over it and move on’ but they have failed to disprove any of the evidence of rigging that were piled up by the opposition. Indeed Kenyans have lost but they haven’t gotten over it and certainly won’t move on. The economy has since been caught in a cycle of slow growth, amidst ridiculous public spending beset with mega corruption scandals one after another. We’ll all pay the price with higher taxes, fewer jobs and more waste and debt. You can’t beat logic. The net result will be higher taxes, higher cost of living and social turmoil. But the jubilee administration has shown that they don’t care about the small fish. All they care about are the big corporations, wealthy individuals and powerful westerners for whom they have invested millions of borrowed money to provide them an enabling environment to even make more money. But does NASA care?
NASA cannot be spared the swipe either. Instead of addressing the concerns of the ordinary Kenyan, they have instead focused their campaign on disparaging slogans and sound bites. One can’t help but wonder if they have a way forward. Can they provide the leadership that our country so desperately needs? First and foremost they have failed to hold the government to account and by openly supporting trade union strikes and industrial action, they have shown how low they are willing to stoop to get political mileage. NASA thinks it will gain popularity by distracting the government or pointing out its ills without providing corrective policy alternatives. Well, good luck with that one. NASA has failed to sell their own agenda of putting the government at the service of the ordinary people, invest in education and agriculture and reduce the cost of living and doing business.
One of the fundamental, defining issues of this campaign is cost of living and cost of doing business and how it will be addressed. NASA’s antiquated fantasy socialist manifesto will put our economy at even a greater risk of collapse. You can’t solve this problem with tighter regulations and taxes. Their proposed austerity measures and devolution of funds to county governments might work but only in the long haul. Kenyans need the solution now. Jubilee cannot boast of having answers either for they are the ones that got us here to begin with.  Having failed to find any real solutions the government has scapegoated the global rise in oil prices to divert from their own failings. So no matter who wins the elections, it is a loss for all Kenyans.

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