Lionel Costa
Lionel Costa's Profile
After many years looking at our country and other countries history, political governance and ideological movements. I came to the conclusion that ideology in politics are just a heavy iron ball and chains that drags us and prevent us from doing what is right.
First, we need strong unalienable ethics affirming that democracy and human rights are fundamental, but otherwise nothing else should be “forbidden”:
Free enterprise? Oh yes please! You have an idea that can make you wealthy? Please do so, but don’t forget to respect and inspire your employees. Share the wealth with them, mentor them. They have ideas? Invest in them! You are rich? Good for you!
Modernise our government? It is long overdue! Take the exemple of the Baltic states: EVERY ADMINISTRATIVE TASK THERE IS ONLINE! As a result, administrative processing is ultra fast and cheap, therefore WE COULD CUT OUR BUDGET (and reduce unnecessary taxes?).
Provide REAL assistance to the poorest member of our society? Yes we need to as any good neighbor should do! We can’t afford having so many people that are beyond “pulling themselves up by the bootstrap”… Accident happen and in our society and it is too easy to fell off the chessboard. Many private programs are really effective, they should be publicly supported and/or emulated
Immigration? Let’s attack the root cause of illegal immigration: help their government curb crime, invest in their businesses, create wealth for people there! Create better path for legal immigration!
Security? ALL people need to feel safe: use simple technology and also better police training to discourage people from committing crimes. External security? Better military investments to provide an online/offline shield to deter any aggression and development of really fast intervention capabilities with modern simple solutions (drones) to make any of our troops count more.
in summary, it’s time to use brains not brawl to move forward!