Gov economics should not affect you as private individual beyond the portion you're taxed. How gov borrows or spend should ideally not be our business. Our business should be getting gov services. Assume Gov is Safaricom - you don't care about their internal operations, who and when they borow - all you care about is getting telcom services from them.
And that is where the conversation should start and end. Is gok giving me good roads, electricity, security, education, health and 50 services that both level of gov need to do.
The rest honestly should be finance minister and his team worries - how much debt they need to roll over - when to float eurobond - that is NONE of our business. These technical details about fiscal and monetary policies should be left to treasury wonks to figure out.
Rather than worrying about kenya going broke - we should worry about the very bad roads in your locality. Rather than engaging in pseudo-economics - we should be giving gov hard time because honestly having 20% paved roads is bad - whatever they need to do - I don't care - treasury should figure out - and fund paving of our roads
Once the gov has paved roads, provided me with electricity, water and security - I should no go ask them for jobs. That is not part of 50 gov services - it's not gov mandate to provide jobs - they will employ the civil servants they need to deliver their mandate. Individuals then should till their farms, deliver produces and get paid. Or go to school, acquire skills and look for jobs or start small enterprises.
In short - if you go now and ask people in my county - we will happily vote Jubilee - because we see low seal tarmac everywhere - we see electricity everywhere - we see water (now dead dream) coming - if Rotich overborrowed or didn't stick to fiscal policy or budget deficit mumbo-jumbo is not our business.I also don't care that SGR broke the bank - I care that I am able to travel to Mombasa comfortably and cheaply - and bring my containers stress free.
In short drive conversation from mumbo-jumbo about infrastructure driven economic growth being less optimal - to what do you need from gov? - you need infrastructure - the rest (like underperforming private sector) is our fault. If people are not able to convert all the new shinny roads, electricity to economic benefits and lift themselves out of poverty - the gov cannot do anything.
Government cant nail anything without addressing the economy. Where else are you going to get the revenue to "nail the basics"? At some point loans have to repaid, even if you rollover debt it means you can't borrow more without addressing the economy. By addressing the economy it means not borrowing and spending like drunken sailors, taxing citizen to death and over regulating.