KB Asante: Voice From Afar column

The government should be congratulated on arranging for the Turkish power ship to ease the energy crisis before the end of the year.  

But there are more fundamental problems it should tackle now if we are to withstand the looming economic storm.  I am not an economist or a financial expert but I know when I am getting broke and I know that it is no different from a big organisation or even the government having little or no money.  The sophisticated explanatory jargon of official experts does not alter the effects of insolvency.  

I cut down expenditure or borrow or do both when my needs exceed my income.  I know that the borrowed money should be used to get out of the debt and not to continue with uncontrolled spending.

We have to pay for the follies of the past no matter who was mainly to blame; wife, girlfriends or previous government.  The money for the Turkish power ship should be paid in real terms and not by financial football between government and n