{"id":46878,"date":"2015-08-13T19:54:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T01:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=46878"},"modified":"2015-08-13T05:22:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T12:22:53","slug":"choice-for-sri-lankans-choose-between-sanity-and-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/13\/choice-for-sri-lankans-choose-between-sanity-and-insanity\/","title":{"rendered":"CHOICE FOR SRI LANKANS-CHOOSE BETWEEN SANITY AND INSANITY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>After 30 years of civil war against the world worst terrorists outfit, Sri Lanka had spent 5 years of post war period\u00a0 in <strong>catching up\u201d with Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam, Myannmar, Indonesia and India.\u00a0\u00a0 During 30 year period, the roads network, electrification, housing, education, health, clean water, environment\u00a0 and technology were ignored, as most of scarce resources of the island had to be\u00a0 spent to fight the war.\u00a0 During this 30 year period, most countries in the region lifted their economies, thereby raising the living standards of its population.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hard work of post war period in catch up\u201d work had come to a complete standstill\u00a0 from February this year to date.\u00a0 The formation of a new government headed by a political reject,\u00a0 was the beginning of disaster for the country.\u00a0 He and his team did not possess required skills to take forward New Sri Lanka\u201d initiated by the former President.\u00a0 The\u00a0 new team did not have any new ideas or strategies to continue the projects previously undertaken, let alone embarking on new projects.\u00a0 Therefore, most projects were put on hold, resulting an instant jump in unemployment and decline in inflow of funds into the country. The government reserves became inadequate to meet the day to day operational costs.\u00a0\u00a0 Sri Lankan rupee depreciated against the US Dollar.\u00a0 The investors were unwilling to select Sri Lanka as a stable economy, as the government itself was illegitimate with the likelyhood\u00a0 of\u00a0\u00a0 General Election within months.<\/p>\n<p>The opportunity is now in front of all Sri Lankans, <strong>most particularly Sinhalese<\/strong>,\u00a0 to make a decision and to draw a dividing line between Sanity and Insanity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Napolean Hill ( a well-known American author on Mind Control)\u00a0 said\u00a0 &#8221; Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>( A general election forecast is being compiled and will be released to the Lankaweb in the coming days).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE After 30 years of civil war against the world worst terrorists outfit, Sri Lanka had spent 5 years of post war period\u00a0 in catching up\u201d with Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam, Myannmar, Indonesia and India.\u00a0\u00a0 During 30 year period, the roads network, electrification, housing, education, health, clean water, environment\u00a0 and technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}