Sri Lanka - Caring two hoots!

When my great-grandfather passed away he owed nothing to anyone. Sri Lanka was like him. Carefree!

When my grandfather passed away he owed only one month’s light bill to the CEB. Like him, Sri Lanka had only one month’s nilmargin Import bills to settle - Care less!

When my father passed away he owed the CEB and the NWS&DB a month’s electricity and water bill. Sri Lanka had World Bank and IMF loans to settle - Caring less about the morrow!

When I pass away, I will owe the CEB and the NWS&DB at least three months electricity and water bills. I will owe the Credit Card Company. I will leave behind the many loans I obtained from lending institutions and from friends, I will leave behind the naya to the mudalali of the local kade with whom I do my purchasing on tick. I will owe my driver and my house boy many months of unpaid salaries. I will leave my two sons high and dry

APPRECIATIONS

studying for their MAs in Aussie (also financed with a loan). I will owe the lease payments on our house and our car. I would have to settle the hire purchase bills on our fridge, 3D-LCD TV….… and I will leave my wife stricken with worry of how she would settle all this. Well she will bequeath this burden upon our two sons when they come back for my funeral while abandoning their studies.

Sri Lanka is so badly in debt to the inter- national community that we all who are alive now will bequeath a beggared nation to our great- grand children.

At the rate we are borrowing in our race to become “the Miracle of Asia”, our greatgrandchildren too are likely to live on “borrowed opulence”. Caring two hoots!