Promises Sound Easy Before Power
Promises are beautiful before power.
Help for women. Help for graduates. Cheaper gas. Loans. Jobs. Clean government. New industries. A better future for young people.
Who would not want these things?
The problem is not that people ask for help. People need help. Families need relief. Young people need work. Women carry the household economy in ways politics often ignores.
The problem is that every promise has a cost.
Someone has to pay.
Someone has to deliver.
Someone has to stop theft.
Someone has to decide who gets help first.
Someone has to explain what cannot be done yet.
That is where many leaders fail. They speak like poets during the campaign and count like cowards after victory.
Sri Lanka knows this very well.
We have heard promises without price tags.
We have paid for them later.
Hope is good.
Hope without arithmetic is dangerous.
