> Consumer spending is not "wealth destruction" -- who makes the fantasy coffins? Who prints the banners? Local businesses!

This is the parable of the broken window [1].

> Ghana is sitting at a 5.6% GDP growth rate

Ghana is a success story in large part due to having made a clear-eyed recovery after its 2015 IMF bailout.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window