Saturday, June 03, 2006

A Man of the People's Needs and Wants

A Man of the People's Needs and Wants, is how the general public of Iran views their newest president, and rightfully so. The international community views this Iranian president as some type of power hungry financial mongrel. The reverse is quite the case.
He offered housing loans for the low income people of Iran, preparing for 30,000...and instead received 2 million applications. Every last one either has been, or is in the process of being, looked at and approved. The people of Iran have no care of what the international community has to say. They only understand that there are 70 million Iranian citizens within that nation, and approximately 80% of them are in the lower levels of income, if not living in total poverty all together.
Understand as well that although Iran has the income of the crude oil sales, the profits from those sales are not lining the pockets of the extremely wealthy people in Iran. Rather, they are being used to filter income potential to the 50 million people with little or no income at all in that nation. It is a nation rich in history and war. A nation that spent most of its existance fighting for the very soil that it stands on, and a nation who has had to bear the brunt of many presidents before this one.
The world only sees the Iranian Uranian Enrichment Program. This is to allow the Iranians to not only create better job potentials but also to aide in the necessary educational process that will allow the citizens of Iran to get promotions and raises that people of other well developed nations take for granted. These are a stong people. They are not afraid of hard work and labor, nor are they unwilling to learn more. In fact, one of the most spoken about issues from the Iranian people is the issue on education... or lack thereof...or the distance that many students have to travel in order to even get to a school, if they can go to a school at all.
Adults want more funding available to them to attend colleges and universities (something that is not readily available to all adults in Iran as it is in the United States). They do not want a national health care program. They want better paying jobs so that when someone gets ill, they can afford to pay for the medication and medical treatment they will require. They do not want a welfare program. They want jobs. They do not want food stamps, they want more money for farming and textile industries so they can produce their own food and resources. They do not want any further vehicle manufacturers, they want buildings that are closer to their places of residence so that it's less travel time by foot or bicycle.
This is a nation of 70 million people that want to be given the opportunity to be self-sufficient without having to rely on the kindness of others as they pass by on the streets for their next meal, or vaccine, or shirt. Unlike other Arab nations, the Iranian women are encouraged to go out and work, go to school and become self supportive. They are not tormented as other women are in surrounding nations. The women and daughters of the Iranian communities are educated just as the men are, and some of the wealtheir women do hold very good and solid corporate positions in the nation. However, it is an overall concern of the Iranian people that speaks a vry loud and clear "We want more for ourselves, and we're willing to get out there and produce it ourselves....we just need the buildings there so that we CAN produce things for ourselves".
Buildings cost money....money comes from income. Income, at this point, comes from crude oil sales. In the future, the Iranian government hopes to add nuclear technology to this line up of income potential, and thereby also adding many other income producing corporations...ultimately allowing Iran to become the self-sufficient and self-supporting nation that it so badly wants for itself.
Someone mind telling me what is so 'bad' about this?!?!

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