Today, the budget for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been announced, which amounted to more than one trillion and one hundred billion Saudi Rials* ($290 billion). This figure might look like daunting at first glance, and it might be difficult for others to read this figure as they see it for the first time. Yet if we compared the budget with the wealth of a "such man" who passed away, will find the Saudi budget looks very less than normal. Being a "person’s" fortune is almost equal to a certain extent the “whole country’s budget” will suck the big shock of the budget figure.
Distribution of the budget was fair partly, but what is important and always the most important for some people is: who has the lucky pocket this time?! Unfortunately, this idea includes some famous people from neighbor countries!! Some of them let us, as Saudis, feel like strangers for our own budget!!!
We hear a lot about projects and services, which cost a huge amount of budget, but there are nothing in the reality!! It reminds me an Arabic proverb says: “free money teaches how to thief?”
We hear a lot about projects and services, which cost a huge amount of budget, but there are nothing in the reality!! It reminds me an Arabic proverb says: “free money teaches how to thief?”
If the disbursement of this budget will directed as planned, we will live -with the projects and services that we only did hear about them- worthy and peacefully. I'm against any increasing in salaries or housing allowances, because we have to learn from the past history in few years ago, which has taught us that prices of daily life needs will increase more than now without any reasons except the lack of supervision or accountability.
Anti-Corruption Commission has more red lines that cannot be passed, moreover, the large number of corruptions cases, will keep this commission busy for long time. Nowadays, the huge challenge faces Saudi Arabia is the corruption without punishing the perpetrators. As a result, the fear of revolution young people complain of the visible injustice and corruption is increasing daily, as well as more than 22% of the trillion's Rials' country population are living below the poverty line!!!!!
Oh Lord, give us your kindness.
* Rial is the Saudi currency (SR). $1 = SR 3.75
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