What Ive heard from two ladies this past month is that they feel that the culmination of deals from government and business leaders and the corresponding economic position of the nation is going to take a longtime to unwind. How long? One hundred years. They both felt that all this fooling around with the system has caused the nation to be immersed in something deep. The right thing to do to restore confidence in the system is to go after all the wrongdoers, be it government representatives, lawyers, or business people, and handout mandatory prison terms. Consecutive ten-year prison terms so that people are put away for one hundred years. The ladies agreed. Then you have to take back all the money that was stolen and return it to the public coffers. And unless the next leader is willing to do that, perhaps Ill have to agree with the ladies that it may a take a hundred years to overcome these deep-rooted problems. Its the lack of a proper and ethical approach to address the real problem of corruptive influence that scares me, not the problem, no matter how severe it may seem.
