Why do I feel sad ??
Because our Army now became the baker !!
or because what that regime did to us !!
In time of War in 1973 Egypt did not suffer from Bread crisis , people did not kill each other for 3 or 4 loafs of bread "May Allah bless your souls Aziz Sadky and Anwar El-Sadaat"
I am sorry but is not the Egyptian government the one which caused the problem in the first place !??
I tried to avoid in speaking in this but it kills me to share with the world our misery.
Thank you Mr.President for saving the day !!
Well the Army is the one that will save the day actually !!!!
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at least part of our useless defense budget spent on something useful
ReplyDeleteThere weren't 80 million of us in 1973.. I am not saying that the government is not to blame, but subsidies grow each year to coop with the population growth add that to higher international prices and it becomes a heavy burden especially with our oil exports declining.
ReplyDelete@loudlaughter , well believe it or not this is not from the defense budget , it is from the army's farms !!
ReplyDelete@Ramy , I got what you say but let's clear something you main source of revenue is the Suez Canal not oil , you can import Wheat in very good prices from the following countries Syria , Sudan and Saudi Arabia , you can reclaim the western and Sinai desert to grow extra wheat with no extra burden
it is not about population , please do not use this regime excuse , it is about planning , if the regime did not waste money on useless projects , if there were no dictatorship no corruption no secret bank accounts
we would not have suffered like now
@loudlaughter , well believe it or not this is not from the defense budget , it is from the army's farms !!
ReplyDelete@Ramy , I got what you say but let's clear something you main source of revenue is the Suez Canal not oil , you can import Wheat in very good prices from the following countries Syria , Sudan and Saudi Arabia , you can reclaim the western and Sinai desert to grow extra wheat with no extra burden
it is not about population , please do not use this regime excuse , it is about planning , if the regime did not waste money on useless projects , if there were no dictatorship no corruption no secret bank accounts
we would not have suffered like now
I have 2 agree with Z...the country is full of abundance and wealth...secret bank accts. and an unequal distribution of wealth are the real source of the problem, and not just increaseing exported wheat prices. Cost of bread and other baked goods has gone up here also but we can still afford it of course. But who eats bread here on low carb diets!
ReplyDeletePersonally I hope the Egyptian people go and demonstrate in Sharm where the Pharoah stays in his 5* hotel and cause bread riots there..Now that would be something 2 see and it would put the fear of God in him..if that is possible.
What I don't understand is Dr. Prime Minister. This guy has an education from a western university. If he even remotely cared about his country, why wouldn't he implement better planning and agricultural and economic policies?
Also if unemployment wasn't such a big problem, I don't think the population would be growing at the rate it is. Men aren't tired enough from work so they have all kinds of energy 2 make babies...lol..plus birth control is not really promoted in Egypt is it?
I agree with most parts, it's all about planning or the lack of it... but it's not just this government it's all of them. The entire public sector is a disaster. If it weren't for the Suez canal, gas exports and tourism where would we be? So what do we actually produce as a society except exploiting our natural resources???
ReplyDeleteWhat I was trying to say is that we now have to subsidise imported oil instead of our own. The government is playing a take and give game but it's resources are stretched, so more imports and higher salaries won't fix our problems will just mask it as they did for years.
But what alternative do we have at the moment? an Islamic republic of Egypt??? who will exploit religious to do the same and won't solve any problems?
at least the government is trying to plan ahead and tackle some problems if only to stay in power and keep the people quite.
The prime minster is taking the blame for decades of miss-management, corruption and inefficiency so that others can hide behind him... stability, privatization, less bureaucracy, private- and foreign investments are the best we can hope for at the moment imo
btw I don't think our water reserves would allow us to reclaim the desert..
@Ramy , is the only alternative of this regime the Islamists !!?? who said it ?? what about a real democratic constitutional regime like in the rest of the civilized world !!??
ReplyDeletethis one , number two what caused all these fatal economic problem ?? is not that the regime role to plan wisely and effectively for the sake of the people before blaming the people
in civilized countries ,the president and the prime ministers are accountable in front of the people
if you got few resources , then please plan wisely for your budget and economy , if the prime minister can't minimize the budgets of his ministers from cars and expenses then he should not open his mouth
about the water resources , well you got enough water resources from underground water in western desert to reclaim very well and it is proven by experts like Farouk El-Baz
@N.American princess, Ahmed Nazif is good only as Telecommunication minister but not as prime minister , it is not about his degrees ,it is about how much he accepts this corruption , it seems to me he accepts it and welcomes it very well
ReplyDeleteIf we had democracy today, who do you think the people will vote for? Since the coup Any alternative had been viewed as a threat and dealt with systematically, the only ones still standing are the brotherhood because of their popular agenda. Beside democracy on it's own is not enough, our people can be so easily manipulated... with simple slogans, hollow promises or a kilo la7mah... the government brainwashing propaganda and poverty have made sure of that...
ReplyDeleteAny step forward requires very unpopular reforms and no one will vote for that (take the reforms in Jordan for example)...
Even if we had a competent and corruption free government it would still take ages before we see some tangible results and the suffering of the poor would still get worse...
I am not saying we shouldn't be critical or accept our reality.. but for the moment I don't see an easy way out...
And underwater water are not a renewable sources at least not for another couple of thousand years, what would we do when it runs out and our population is 100 million plus?? but I guess that's as always the problem of some poor future government and generation.
maybe we can be saved once again by our natural resources and a little bit of planning :)
ReplyDeletehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7232328.stm
@Ramy and is the MB still popular till now ?? there is no alternative why ? because the regime since 1952 is fighting parties , even now we are living the so-called Multi-party system, there is no actual party thanks to the Parties law , the MB believe it or not survived this because they are a party
ReplyDeleteLook give alternative sources and I will not say no , if it were in my hand ,I would use it , it is in the regime hands
yet I disagree with you there are many solutions to get away from this crisis , it is in the hands of the regime ,if we do not like what you are saying expect something like for hunger revolution