It is understandable that people be worked up about the news; after all, what’s happening in Vienna, New York, Damascus and Baghdad is important. But I wish the news would give us an inkling as to where we would be a few years from now.
Who is minding the economy? Anyone in the cockpit? Or are we heading straight into the wall, on autopilot?
Will the economy be able to generate enough new jobs and decent standards of living for all resident Lebanese? And I mean Lebanese from all colors: Reds and whites, greens and oranges, yellows and purples. And I also mean Lebanese from all calendar days: March 14 as well as March 8, and why not the May 25, and surely November 22, not to forget April 13 and October 13, and May 6 to be sure, and April 26 to top it all, and pride of place for the pranksters of April 1.
Would this mishmash help reduce the confessional-political divide that is blocking any prospect for reform and threatening to rip the country apart?
Without a sturdy economic recovery triggered by radical administrative and fiscal reforms, all colors would fade and all dates would merge into a grey, bleak twilight.
