every day people loyal to the nation and others are increasingly demanding that the budget deficit and the large spending waste in various forms, especially in the salaries item, must be addressed.
on the other hand, there are demands from others to stop talking about taking austerity measures and reducing salaries but instead contain massive thefts of funds and reckless government spending, and the benefits enjoyed by the ministers and parliamentarians.
the rule says, ‘if you cannot take it all, don’t leave it all’ and this is a rule that applies to all aspects of life, so it is not easy for us to give up something for the mere fact that we did not take it all, and would be much better if we had more.
it is illogical to demand they stop talking about the big waste in the payroll item, under the pretext, we are unable to stop the embezzlement of public money, so nothing prevents us from walking in two parallel lines.
hence i saw and wrote about the size of the injustice and defamation that the university professor anwar al-ibrahim was subjected to because she expressed her opinion on the 200 dinars spent on each university student because she believes a majority of them do not require this money in the first place.
the issue is greater than the money in question but they send a message to the government that they will turn the tables through anwar and others if it dared to talk about this issue and other similar issues that touch their pockets while disregarding the fact that there is inflation in salaries in the government sector that makes it difficult for the government to come close to salaries paid by the private sector. as a result, the situation makes the government job more attractive and tempting to kuwaitis which constitutes a heavy burden on the state budget.
in a speech given by abdulwahab al-issa, a media and financial activist, at the kuwait university, he warned of imminent bankruptcy. he said the salary item in the 2004 budget was up to 3 billion dinars. in the following year, it rose to 11 billion dinars and in the year 2024/2025 it will approach twenty billion dinars and the numbers will double in the next ten years.
he added all means of transportation and machinery will run on solar energy, knowing that companies that currently control the world economy in future companies such as apple, huawei, and others which do not burn a single barrel of oil and at the same time our oil revenues will decrease in 2035 to less than ten billion dinars, and the deficit will rise. the annual turnover is thus more than 30 billion dinars, and nothing will remain in the sovereign fund at that time, and the time of devaluation of the dinar, or other delayed implementation measures, will not help.
what our very rational government does not know is that britain has officially announced, and with a binding decision, that it will stop sales of new cars that run on gasoline and diesel starting in 2035, i.e. 5 years before what had been planned.
it also announced that the ban will also include hybrid cars, in their efforts to fight the climate crisis, and reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2050, the year that my grandchildren will be at the peak of their need to find a job.
britain has been preceded by many countries in this field, including norway, which aspires to have all cars and small trucks sold free of emissions by 2025, and india has called for the sale of electric cars only by 2030. so what are we doing, knowing that scientists have proven that our oil can’t be drunk?