Monrovia today, and you would be hard pressed to find many of this class left. All we have are the two extremes of a tiny minority at the top of the pyramid and the teeming masses at the bottom. This is a volatile situation. It's an accident waiting to happen. There is no doubt the government is strapped.
Resources are scarce.
But the little it has could be better managed. The government complains about the international community not stepping up to the plate. What the donor and international financial community are looking for is evidence, not rhetoric, that the government has its priorities in the right place. I don't wish to sound glib, but the Liberian economy is pretty small and certainly not unmanageable. We are not Nigeria, with 100 million mouths to feed and provide social services for.