Internal and external feedback
Orderly (Secretary) is summoned for the Weekly Briefing. Today he has good news and not so good news. On the local front the escalating prices seems to be burning a hole in our pockets, and now we are hearing the muzzled voices through songs. On the international front, our debts will be forgotten for a while as our people digest another spin to believe that we will always be a 'model to the rest of the world' the Prez' very own famous favourite words'. This NBC coverage will do the trick. With our website up and running we have both internal and external feedback.
Orderly: Good morning Mr. President, Sir! Today I have some worrying feedback from the grassroots level. There are some serious messages being relayed out there on the 'Pri Lavi' issue as these CDs keep mushrooming all over the place.
President: Orderly, we do not need to import any mushrooms. Currently the essentials are most important. Let's focus on rice, onions etc…
Orderly: But Mr. President, Sir, we should not allow songs to deter us from our path but I have always been scared of the word 'revolution'. There is another revolution which they call intellectual and I wonder if our youth are not catching on. The majority of shoppers do not seem to be able to get into ISPC as they are all being sent to look for Chang-Leng.
President: Not to worry orderly. We used to have our revolutionary songs in the '80s so we can get a compilation going. Boss has ordered the break up of the SMB and we now have a range of smaller companies to better service the people. This is what good governance means orderly! Our Irish investigators highlighted this in their report.
Orderly: But Sir, it seems we've been cursed by the prawns as no one seems to want Coetivy!
President: It will end up as a '
Orderly: Excellent idea, Mr. President… we can also mix them with the singing youth so that they can sow their seeds and I am sure they will be able to supply the rest of us with all our vegetables and 'gros manze' requirements that we are sorely lacking today.
President: Precisely! Then I will get the MOH to run a campaign and educate the people in the benefits of healthier eating and going 'back to our roots'. Enough of this starchy diet of rice which the Indians are hoarding and draining all our precious forex. I am glad that MOH has made progress and rid themselves of their 'advisors'. Tit for tat, Orderly. No Ambassador-at-large for me, no advisor for them. Voila!
Orderly: Sir, Mr. President. On your orders I had the boys go out and buy a copy of each of these CDs. They are indeed spreading the message we do not want our 'folks' to hear.
President: There you go, Orderly. Coetivy! It was an old idea of the boss to send them to far away islands. So before we get any NYS scenario we offer them their own island for one rupee. I told you about our very own Jamaican style island. The
Orderly switches the focus to the international scene and produces some press clippings on the happenings including the NBC Today Show coverage.
Orderly (enthusiastically): Mr. President Sir… Our tourism is set to boom with the recent coverage on the NBC television in
President: Great idea! Let's disband SBC - get Afif to re-look at his team - get some new members appointed and we can call it NBC. How's that for media savvy!!
Orderly: But Sir, this might be a bad move as the press is known as the 4th pillar of democracy in
President: OK Orderly. Let's get in touch with Bush on that number we got from the General's last visit. I can make a trip to salute him before he leaves office and also take the opportunity to check on the Dreamliner that is in the pipeline. We do not want them to end up as the tankers and end up flying the world and not coming back! Now that we have been to visit these 'Yanks' via their TV station on NBC, Bush will surely welcome the idea get him on line, Orderly…
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