Andare on Yavageewa- President

By Andare

(June 30, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) A Provincial Council Minister has explained the reason for wanting to abolish all elections for the presidency and to have one person in the job for the rest of his life. The reason is to save the money that would be spent on elections. The desire for such a cut in expenditure makes him a great patriot and the country should have only patriots and non patriots. Now there are a few more ways where money can be saved and the happiness of the patriots can be improved. There is that institution called the Inland Revenue Department. If you close that down a lot of money will be saved for the patriots. There is also the Central Bank which also consumes a lot of money and closing that down will also increase the happiness of many persons who will thrive in its absence. Now it is also possible to close down the Auditor General’s Department because keeping accounts and monitoring and the like does not contribute to the happiness of many persons. If there is to be further expenditure cuts they can be from the health service and educational service; after all saving money is more important that any of these things.

These are of course very general comments by a comedian like me for the purpose of assisting the enthusiastic money saver, the Provincial Council Minister and others who may equally support him to save money by not having elections.

Of course, if the desire is greater there are other things that can also be thought of like cutting down the money spent on eating and drinking and transport. Perhaps this Provincial Council Minister should be appointed to a higher post for national planning for cutting down expenditure.

One question of course will be what to do with all this money that will be saved. Maybe the minister knows how to deal with that problem.

There are however, some others who are achieving the Yawageewa status rapidly. The dengue mosquito is one of them. In this impermanent world this mosquito has established its immortality and is likely to survive beyond many of the citizens. Perhaps it is from this mosquito we should try to learn the art of defeating the law of impermanence.

-Sri Lanka Guardian