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"Look at the kettle calling the pot black. Look at NPP complaining that we are borrowing; even when they were getting HIPC benefits they were still borrowing. Everything they are complaining about, they have done double, double�what is this hypocrisy?" Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper laments. Kwesi Pratt was speaking to the issue of the Press Conference organized by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) over the week to review the performance of the Mahama-led administration in 2013. Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei, the Minority spokesman on finance at the Press Forum said the current administration has increased Ghana�s total debt from US$8billion in 2008 to the current US$23 billion. According to him, the borrowing spree of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) led government would definitely have a rippling effect on the country. In general, he said, the current administration performed abysmally. Kwesi Pratt told Suhiyini Alhassan on Radio Gold�s Alhaji and Alhaji that there was nothing new in what the NPP said because everybody in the country knows that 2013 was a difficult year. �Indeed the President himself says we are now down to the bone� He said �over the last 30 years including the eight years of NPP administration, we�ve always had a budget deficit and so over the last 30 years, we have all been borrowing irrespective of which government is there�� According to him, everybody is entitled to assess the President but those assessments must be �honest� to avoid misleading Ghanaians. �If the NPP wants to tell us something better, they should come and tell us that yes in the past we did the same thing but now we have seen the light and so we will do something different but even that the people will take that with a pinch of salt�Are they telling us that if we are to remove President Mahama from office today to bring Nana Akufo Addo or Alan Kyeremanteng as President, we will not borrow? What is wrong with these people I don�t understand them,� he said. The seasoned journalist also bemoaned politicians� attitude of trying to deceive Ghanaians and always making the other party look bad, no matter the issue. According to him, whatever the NPP is complaining about; school feeding programme, tariff increment, nurses and teachers not being given their allowances and so on, occurred when they were in power and NDC complained about it. He said the back and forth argument and the blame game does not change the conditions in the country adding: �don�t waste our time; these politicians should not waste our time; we are tired.�