During the so-called 2021 Samoa “constitutional crisis,” a senior Faatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi Party advisor famously said that the “maths” on the Constitutional 10% provision for women representation didn’t add up.
It was the same maths that decided the Samoa Airways aircraft lease agreement wasn’t profitable.
The same maths was probably used to calculate the cost-benefit analysis of the $255,000,000 million tālā district projects.
That is the problem when advisors who have never managed an economy or balanced a national budget pretend to be “maths experts.”
Let us give Cabinet advisors a simple maths problem to consider.
What percentage of cabinet ministers are in the country dealing with 100 per cent of the nation’s problems?
The answer is 26 percent.
Think about it.
Four Cabinet Ministers are trying to manage the electricity shutdowns, a drug epidemic, land disputes, out of control crime, flooded airports, a coastal environmental disaster, and heaven knows whatever else is brewing in the shadows.
While the rest are dancing and singing their way across the United States and the world.
A bus running at 26% engine capacity will never reach its destination.
The oil will clog up, fuel will run out, tires will go flat, and the poor Samoan passengers will have to get out and push!
At this rate, we will never catch up to our problems.
That is the real maths.
God help Samoa.
Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi
Leader of HRPP