Alfred Nobel & Al-Fadhalah
a noble generous personality allocated a large sum of money to pay the debts of some people and i wrote an article at that time saying he should have invested the large amount in a good project or through a portfolio, and spent the annual profits on the debtors, so the generosity would last for years and years, and this is what many did including alfred nobel (1833-1896), the swedish chemist and scientist who invented dynamite in 1867 and made a huge fortune out of that invention. the amount allocated to the prizes has been growing for more than 120 years, and the name of nobel has been immortalized by history.
a short time ago, the government decided that the public institute for social security (pifss) would spend 600 million dinars (or two billion dollars) on 130,000 retirees. the huge amount melted in the hands of those who took it, and now most of them do not remember how they spent it.
we lost the opportunity to invest that amount for the retirees so that they and their children and grandchildren could enjoy it, but many, with clear educational government support, demanded that the amount be paid in cash for perhaps feeling that they live in a temporary state.
this race between the government and the parliament to issue populist financial laws is unfortunate, and even more unfortunate is the insistence on making them priorities before the most important and urgent issues and laws related to the future of the country.
i am certainly not against the citizen’s feeling of well-being and enjoying the bounties of their country, but what is happening is unfortunate and disturbing and has moral reactions.
there is no doubt that many of those who received the front-row reward (the 600 million dinars that have been disbursed) do not deserve it and their names were included in the lists forcibly.
ensuring a decent living for the citizen does not mean disbursing cash, but rather raising the level of services provided, improving the standard of living, and ensuring the future prosperity of the citizens and not spending cash, a big sum of this will be spent on buying ridiculous things and services.
how can a country have so many job seekers, and the government and the national assembly come and approve the disbursement of 300 million dinars to buy government employees’ vacations, knowing that a large percentage of them are not working, and others are basically unproductive?
the postponement of loan installments and the government bearing the cost of bank interest, at the expense of the committed and non-borrowers are real financial and moral calamities that we hope will not be repeated.
the obscene and unprecedented attack on the central system for remedying the status of illegal residents (the bedouin) and on the virtuous man, saleh al-fadhalah, is suspicious.
the man has fulfilled his duty to preserve the national identity and he deserves all the support, encouragement, and honor, and everyone who opposes his actions does not want the good of his country.
the bedouin issue must have a final solution, but not through naturalization or at the expense of our identity, we have enough.”
