{"id":52343,"date":"2016-02-27T23:46:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T05:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=52343"},"modified":"2016-02-26T11:08:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T18:08:48","slug":"behavior-of-our-pm-in-the-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/02\/27\/behavior-of-our-pm-in-the-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Behavior of our PM in the parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Chandrasena Pandithage<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Behavior of our PM in the parliament may lead to questioning of rationality of his decision-making. However, I believe in democracy and sympathies with him. Majority of the people trusted him with the economy and he cannot deliver and he is under extreme pressure. He is trapped in a quagmire that he cannot get himself out from. His friends have all gone poor and are problem ridden; would not do anything to support him.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan economy, under unofficial sanctions from People\u2019s Republic of China (largest economy on the planet) is crumbling. Rupee is devaluing at a rate; almost all development projects initiated by previous government has come to a grinding halt. Sri Lankan economy, which grew at 7.2% in 2014, saw the growth rate plunged to 4.8% in 2015 and this is likely to go below 3% in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The neo-liberal world order is failing and Eurasian powers are taking over; Russia (military) and China (economy) are becoming prominent global forces. Anglo-Saxon power is fading. The world that Stalin and Mao were thinking of forging together is coming to shape whether we like it or not. We cannot grow with Chinese choke-hold!<\/p>\n<p>For the president, PM and the rest in this government, there is no way out. They cannot develop the country and they cannot lead the economy for long-term growth; make no mistake. They are helpless home and abroad. Simple political economic analysis of the global and local scenario indicates the magnitude of the quagmire they are trapped in. These conditions are adequate to make any rational man behave irrationally. I think PM has all the right to behave as he is behaving now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandrasena Pandithage Behavior of our PM in the parliament may lead to questioning of rationality of his decision-making. However, I believe in democracy and sympathies with him. Majority of the people trusted him with the economy and he cannot deliver and he is under extreme pressure. He is trapped in a quagmire that he cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chandrasena-pandithage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52343","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=52343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}