3:15 p.m. (c)
I dunno what the local rates are. But there are complaints, chief among them being they're way too high, there's no account for what's been done with them and there's definitely nothing to show for what they've done with the money they have grabbed off 999 out of 1,000 of us. There are signs of theft, with Rajapaksa's exhibiting many gold watches or chains or personal vehicles or properties (even overseas), with Ranil admitting to books being cooked or public finance ledgers being falsified to the tune of many hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions over a long span of time.
I saw it's 14 percent for SMEs, but there is no platform to help those SMEs reach good business outcomes, or the market with stability, or to partner up with large firms. The market or domestic economy is a jungle, either people find some fruits or animals to eat by chance, hoping it's not poisonous, and they don't get eaten alive first. It's an inhospitable landscape, culture and stay-in-the-████████ecosystem which has been established by racketeers as an institution to disrupt the day to day lives of 99 families out of a 100 to stay depending on them, so they are able to maintain criminal monopolies at our people's destruction.
With us we've got the SLWF, a Lehan brainchild, a collection of funds we pool 10% of our personal incomes towards as investments, which are then invested as the name would suggest in those specific markets, configured with MNC partners whom we judged reliable, to improving productivity, product quality and reaching international excellence perceptions -- effectively.
This ensures that the SMEs who are somewhat competitive or knowledgeable or structured adequately to reach those work targets or business goals or objectives, have a very safe way of contributing into those industries, with a way to promote, upgrade or grow very easily, mentored by the best of the best, and to finally help strengthen our economy.
This is something I'm big on, as it's the way we can fully unleash the potential of our people, without relying solely on the free market like Netanyahu, which isn't any longer as competitive a political solution for our entrepreneurs or industrialists-- given the immense competition we face regionally and globally, particularly from state funded firms who have final goods and services priced well below our costs of production or even delivery.