Kuwait: 2025
It's all very pretty but will the standard of living be any good?
It's the year 2025 in Kuwait, Politicians and Government Officials will promise the following to voters:
1. Vote for me and I’ll knock off 5% off your Income Tax .
2. I’ll get you a scholarship with MOE even though they stopped those in 2015.
3. I’ll make sure your residential area gets fiber optics by 2050 and that everyone gets electronic mailboxes by 2045.
4. I’ll allocate a plot of land in “Silk City” for your business for a measly 25% of your monthly income.
5. Don’t worry, we’ll finally fix the stench of sewers in Shuweikh and Dasman areas.
6. I’ll make sure there are enough water trucks in your area in case of water stoppage.
7. Vote for me and I’ll make the Free Trade Zone more efficient than Dubai.
8. Vote for me and I’ll make sure you get great health care in Dubai.
9. I’ll make sure we stop digging out pipes from Salmiya and other expatriate areas.
10. Vote for me and you’ll never see Kuwait flooded again from rain.
Now it’s your turn, what’s your prophetic line for Kuwait in 2025?
Comments
Vote for me and I will pay you $6,000 cause the KD is worthless.
Posted by: Don Veto | June 10, 2006 10:25 PM
Vote for me... and "inshallah" I will pay you.
Posted by: The Grenadine | June 11, 2006 12:48 PM
in the year 2025 vote for mah and ill promise to reduce the present 40 constituencies to 25 only :)
Posted by: bilabong | June 11, 2006 8:28 PM
Many old generation Kuwaiti families will immigrate to developed countries because of un-Islamic taxes, corrosive and futile taxes, mass discrimination, overdrugged youth, growing mafias, foreign-dominated supremacy, and mass AIDS/veneral disease-ridden ignoramuses.
Posted by: Tantalize | June 11, 2006 8:43 PM
If you vote for me, I promise i will bring back free education and health care.
Posted by: Boldy | June 12, 2006 9:03 PM
its hope, only hope we have right now, and if you take that away i dont know what else kuwaiti's will have. Everyone is looking to make more money as fast as they can.
how will we look in 25 years??? i have no idea, however it wont be pleasent.
Posted by: Dr. T | June 12, 2006 9:16 PM
Silk City looks pretty on paper, but as a kuwaiti, I know it wont look like the drawing we have at hand.
people are talking about this city to be a model for the next generation and to avoid all the mistakes that happend in kuwait city.
Yeah.....I cant wait. lol.
Thank god i wont have to wait and live their.
Posted by: SAILOR | June 13, 2006 5:49 PM
year 2025: Vote for me my homies and ill get rid of the current PM ahmad el fahd and some others royals and their 'hashia' who raped the country !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: some like it hot | June 13, 2006 8:35 PM
ouch!
Posted by: ahmed al fahad | June 14, 2006 10:52 PM
Silk City isnt going to really work, because like usual any project is going to go extremely over budget and everyone is going to pocket a bit. And nobody will get the work done. Im very pessemistic about this project, and you could tell how this project will go by looking at the state of our water and power systems in Kuwait! Basically.. we're SCREWED!
Posted by: Marzouq | June 15, 2006 7:37 AM
Every other area in dubai already looks like or is superior to whatever the 25 billion dinar Silk City project will look like 25-30 years from now. As a western contractor whose been in q8 and the uae and bahrain kuwait strikes me as the country that cuts the most corners when it comes to infrastructure (roads, water, electricity, sewage, phones etc), im sorry to say.
Posted by: timmy | June 15, 2006 5:03 PM
ahmed alfahd gave the 'madinaat al hareer' presentation to PM (now Amir) a while back, would you trust any project with his hands on it??
Posted by: some like it hot | June 16, 2006 1:20 PM
أحمد الفهد وأمثاله إذا كان الكلام عنهم صحيح من ناحية خراب وسرقة أموال البلد فيجب أن يحاربوا وأن يحاسبوا بغض النظر عن مكانتهم الإجتماعية في حال وجدت مكانة لهم من الأصل ......الله يحفظ الكويت واهلها من جميع أفراد الحرمنة
Posted by: بشاردو | June 16, 2006 3:25 PM
As long as the govmt controls the oils and the moneys nobody can do nothing to fight 'fas3ad'. 50 bercent of najlis umma in govmt's cobntrols
Posted by: shiraziya | June 17, 2006 5:52 PM