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The Minister of State in charge of Financial and Allied Institutions, Fifi Kwetey this past Friday said on an FM radio station that ��monies for development do not drop from heaven, they come from taxes." Our question is, why such arrogance and �in-your-face� talk from the halls of power? Has the Mahama-led NDC administration turned Ghana into heaven on earth for some people and left the rest of us out to suffer? Is there something the rest of us are missing? Does someone want to give us a reason to call some members of the current administration �callous leaders�? Such arrogance exhibited by people in power is worrying especially coming from people who belong to a political party that in opposition used words such as �impunity�, �arrogant�, �profligate spenders�, �pompous�, etc. against the people in power; and campaigned to do better. Some members in this administration have called Ghanaians all kinds of names when we have complained about the pricing of petroleum products, water and electricity. When our youth have complained about unemployment, they have been called lazy. We called it correctly from the very beginning. This is what the Progressive People�s Party (PPP) wrote in January, 2013: