Saudi King to give away $37billion to his Subjects

[barosa]

Saudi King: $37B in New Benefits
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Saudi King Abdullah returned home on Wednesday after a three-month medical absence and <span style="font-weight: bold">unveiled benefits for Saudis worth some $37 billion in an apparent bid to insulate the world’s top oil exporter from an Arab protest wave.</span>

The king, who had been convalescing in Morocco after back surgery in New York in November, stood as he descended from the plane in a special lift. He then took to a wheelchair.

Hundreds of men in white robes performed a traditional Bedouin sword dance on carpets laid out at Riyadh airport for the return of the monarch, thought to be 87.

Abdullah left his ailing octogenarian half-brother, Crown Prince Sultan, in charge during his absence.

Before Abdullah arrived, state media announced an action plan to help lower- and middle-income people among the 18 million Saudi nationals. It includes pay rises to offset inflation, unemployment benefits and affordable family housing.

<span style="font-weight: bold">Saudi Arabia has so far escaped popular protests against poverty, corruption and oppression that have raged across the Arab world, toppling entrenched leaders in Egypt and Tunisia and even spreading to Bahrain, linked to the kingdom by a causeway.</span>

Significantly, Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa was among the princes thronging the tarmac when Abdullah flew in.

<span style="font-weight: bold">King Hamad freed about 250 political prisoners on Wednesday and has offered dialogue with protesters, mostly from Bahrain’s Shi’ite majority, who demand more say in the Sunni-ruled island.</span>

Riyadh would be worried if unrest in Bahrain, where seven people were killed and hundreds wounded last week, spread to its own disgruntled Shi’ite minority in the oil-rich east</div></div>

http://www.frumforum.com/saudi-king-offers-citizens-37-billion

Comments : All a dat money dat will be flying around is nothing more than a big bribe to keep them quiet and sub-servient... It is my hope that they will clamour for &quot;more&quot; in the not too distant future...
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[evanovitch]

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wonda if him helping out di Saudi dem arrest fi planning to use WMD against US targets including President Bush...i kid u not..i heard CNN call di weapon him was trying to mek WMD..i thought it ironic dat finally a WMD almost was revealed to GWB...

[R_C]

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The whole concept of a &quot;King&quot;, &quot;Prince&quot; this and that, a &quot;Royal family&quot; and &quot;palaces&quot; for example, indeed the whole &quot;nobility&quot; thing seems so odd in the 21st century. Shouldn't they have gone away with the Goths, Vikings and Barbarians ? They are of the same vintage no ? Sort of like scurvy, muzzle loaded cannons and the Feudal System ?

It's no mistake that young people have in many instances been at the epicenter of these revolts.

&quot;King&quot; Abdullah.

All these relics from another era need to be roped off and admission charged for people to look at them from a safe distance.

Sort of like in England.

[johnnycakes]

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R_C,

The Saud family OWNS the country which is why they call it SAUDI Arabia.
They aren't going anywhere and with the money they have they can and will buy off any possible dissent.

The news tonight carried a story that some people in Saudi Arabia had planned a &quot;Day of Rage&quot; where people were supposed to turn out and protest.
According to the reporters on the scene the only people who showed up had banners that said &quot;Welcome Back King Abdullah&quot; (out of the country for medical treatment) The reporter also said that at least King Abdullah of the royal family is very well liked by the Saudi public.

[R_C]

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True...in regards to the history of the the Al Saud. However, my post is more free association with regards to this whole thing of &quot;royalty&quot;.

In any event, I am not as sanguine as you are however with regards to their staying power.

We'll see.

[neutral]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: barosa</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

Comments : All a dat money dat will be flying around is nothing more than a big bribe to keep them quiet and sub-servient... It is my hope that they will clamour for &quot;more&quot; in the not too distant future...
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Yeah,..two or three more billion should seal the deal.

[johnnycakes]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Natral</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: barosa</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

Comments : All a dat money dat will be flying around is nothing more than a big bribe to keep them quiet and sub-servient... It is my hope that they will clamour for &quot;more&quot; in the not too distant future...
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Yeah,..two or three more billion should seal the deal. </div></div>


Yes Natral and what is that to the Sauds? Maybe one day's worth of their oil exports?

[H_O]

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were in big trouble if theres a revolt in Saudi Arabia,,and bigger trouble when the US pokes its nose in there political climate, and even bigger trouble if the Saudis decide to not keep there money flowing into US Banks.

Saudi Arabia produces 13% of the world total production of oil -11 million barrels per

but the USA consumes 25% of the world total -daily at 22 million barrels per day.
but the Saudis know which side there bread buttered on

[Derek]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: barosa</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">unveiled benefits for Saudis worth some $37 billion in an apparent bid to insulate the world’s top oil exporter from an Arab protest wave.</span> </div></div>



Sensible decision.

[Derek]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rollin_Calf</div><div class="ubbcode-body">&quot;King&quot; Abdullah. </div></div>



What would you say if I said the Saudi 'royal' family are actually Jews?

[barosa]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: barosa</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">unveiled benefits for Saudis worth some $37 billion in an apparent bid to insulate the world’s top oil exporter from an Arab protest wave.</span> </div></div>



Sensible decision. </div></div>
Sure, it's a sensible decision at this moment with all the neighbors having to deal with uprisings; but I think it's fraught with danger by setting this precedent. It's likely that the population will be expecting increasingly more and more of the national income as the years go by... I know it's not likely, but what would happen if by some 'quirk&quot; of nature in the future, the oil suddenly dried up? Think about it, I would shudder to think of the consequences!
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[Derek]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: barosa</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: barosa</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">unveiled benefits for Saudis worth some $37 billion in an apparent bid to insulate the world’s top oil exporter from an Arab protest wave.</span> </div></div>



Sensible decision. </div></div>
Sure, it's a sensible decision at this moment with all the neighbors having to deal with uprisings; but I think it's fraught with danger by setting this precedent. It's likely that the population will be expecting increasingly more and more of the national income as the years go by... I know it's not likely, but what would happen if by some 'quirk&quot; of nature in the future, the oil suddenly dried up? Think about it, I would shudder to think of the consequences!
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Just like oil, the truth eventually float to the top..

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Fair point but Saudi has enough oil for the next 200 years.

[Dr.Dudd]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rollin_Calf</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The whole concept of a &quot;King&quot;, &quot;Prince&quot; this and that, a &quot;Royal family&quot; and &quot;palaces&quot; for example, indeed the whole &quot;nobility&quot; thing seems so odd in the 21st century. Shouldn't they have gone away with the Goths, Vikings and Barbarians ? They are of the same vintage no ? Sort of like scurvy, muzzle loaded cannons and the Feudal System ?

It's no mistake that young people have in many instances been at the epicenter of these revolts.

&quot;King&quot; Abdullah.

All these relics from another era need to be roped off and admission charged for people to look at them from a safe distance.

Sort of like in England. </div></div>
It require a citizenry of serfs to maintain a monarchy.

The only thing That keeps them in power are the corrupt military That then support And give them fictitious honirs like knighthood etc.
Which are really meaningless recognition in exchange for the right to govern themselves.
honor like knighthood are similar This the act of creating superior And inferior races or tribes to suppress any country.

[Dr.Dudd]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: barosa</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: barosa</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">unveiled benefits for Saudis worth some $37 billion in an apparent bid to insulate the world’s top oil exporter from an Arab protest wave.</span> </div></div>



Sensible decision. </div></div>
Sure, it's a sensible decision at this moment with all the neighbors having to dveal with uprisings; but I think it's fraught with danger by setting this precedent. It's likely that the population will be expecting increasingly more and more of the national income as the years go by... I know it's not likely, but what would happen if by some 'quirk&quot; of nature in the future, the oil suddenly dried up? Think about it, I would shudder to think of the consequences!
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Just like oil, the truth eventually float to the top..

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What consequences?!?
Do you think That the people are That dumb not to be able to know the difference between the country's inability to afford it If the oil run out?
Is ordinary people do really dumb?

Why Do we not have That senario replicated world over?

Probably because They dont have criminal monarchy That stoke the country's wealth under the guise of Royal rights.

[Gen]

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Maybe some a dem can walk and get some exercise


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: H_O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">were in big trouble if theres a revolt in Saudi Arabia,,and bigger trouble when the US pokes its nose in there political climate, and even bigger trouble if the Saudis decide to not keep there money flowing into US Banks.

Saudi Arabia produces 13% of the world total production of oil -11 million barrels per

but the USA consumes 25% of the world total -daily at 22 million barrels per day.
but the Saudis know which side there bread buttered on </div></div>