Here is a video from the demonstration today again outside the House of Parliament. The demonstrators are requesting that every Kuwaitis debts be dropped. Today around twenty percent of the demonstrators were woman. The last demonstration it was around twenty percent high school kids. [Video]
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its gonna really suck if they win this cos they need to be taught a lesson. They borrow tons of money then go lose it in the stock market. its ridiculous. right now, they r hoping another saddam would invade the country so that all debts are cancelled.
Mark … keeping posting the same issue about dropping debts, is really making your web site boring, please try to find something interesting.
i couldnt care less, but maybe they should drop the debts
People in Kuwait should really think before they take loans and put more depts on them selves and waiting for a thread of a petittion to drop there debts.
they are always taking loans and showing off with the money they didnt earn…
i wish it never get approved
Cancelling the debts teaches everyone that it’s right not to take personal reponsbility for your own decisions regarding risk. I realise that’s the culture here now, and any action like this will just perpetuate the problem.
I think they should go back to work!
They will charge the expats for everything
even after paying the 50KD medical insurance per year nothing is free in hospital
per visit 2 kd, ultrasound 10kd, room 10kd etc,
the fact that majority of expat workforce is young and fit, only a small minority goes to hospitals.
This 50kd insurance is not justifiable, i am sure it goes towards the expence of treating non-expats.
Similarly if they drop the debts, i fear they will start imposing taxes on expats. making life in Kuwait more tight.
Anyway its their country, let them do what seems to be good for them. None of our business.
do you think guys it will be approved ?
i totally disagree with it
STFU guys, debts should be dropped, and please expats don’t bother yourself and comment here.
Armani heres a idea…make ur own site and put whatever the fuck u want there…
lol Adam. Same goes for zoomzoom I should think.
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9. zoomzoom | December 18th, 2006 at 1:54 pm
STFU guys, debts should be dropped, and please expats don’t bother yourself and comment here.
I’m sorry, but please go crawl back into your hole. We’ll throw you some food there not to worry…
6. Marzouq | December 18th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
I think they should go back to work!
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they are BADO, Do you know any Bado who work full time in this country?!! ( unless its a place they can take bribes )
maybe %4 of them works real hard ( ye7alel ma3asha )
not only should they recover the full amount owed by these leeches they should also make these wankers un-loanable… lets see how they buy the 2007 merc’s n beemers
Rejoy, expats, if you dont like it here, by all means leave please..
stop complaning, kuwait is not a home for you , its for KUWAITIES ONLY
loo7a Kuwait is a home to many expats including me. Its not for Kuwaitis only.
I’d just like to point out the irony of protests asking that debts be dropped alongside a proliferation of billboards advertising NBK’s new “Yabeela… Aston Martin” campaign. Ah, the beauty of conspicuous consumption in a rentier economy…
And loo7a: let’s kick out all of the expats from Kuwait and make a true home for all Kuwaitis. That way, we can pick up our own trash and sell our own products to… umm… ourselves. Oooh, THEN we can ban all foreign investment from our country – because who needs money that’s not Kuwaiti money, right? After all, it’s a home for Kuwaitis and not for anyone else.
Mark, the high school kids from last time were demonstrating for something else (something to do with thanaweya 3ama).
And I add my voice to those who are against dropping depts.
loo7a…nvm ur name explains it all…
dumbass
why dont they just make it a 70,000 KD Amiri grant?! Or better yet…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZChal98ExuI&mode=related&search=
you what’s gonna happen to the prices if the drop loans ? it will fly up. guys you should fight this stupidity
what lazy people they are!
Well said Boss.
Loo7a – your ignorance is astounding!
Loo7a, that is not very Kuwaiti of you to say that. Remember, its FREE KUWAIT!….get it? no?…anyone?!
these people are freezing there nuts off standing in that weather for NOTHING
so ironic that the only time lazy mofo’s like those get up early and leave their house to stand in the cold is to ask for debt cancellation.If the average lazy local had the same motivation towards work, kuwait would be a dynamo if activity instead of lacking behind the rest of the Gulf. If only the average local had half the involvement and morals of the online crowd….
only in kuwait would a stupid request like this be considered seriously and actually debated.
this is even more laughable than the US reparations issue.
its funny .. in Canada we rally to “freeze university tuition fees” just to freeze it not even trying to ask them to reduce the fees, in Kuwait, its not freeze nor reduce .. its cancel !
21. TweeZ | December 18th, 2006 at 7:17 pm
why dont they just make it a 70,000 KD Amiri grant?! Or better yet…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZChal98ExuI&mode=related&search=
SOO COOL MAN … its simply just THAT… :D