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   From: ixnayamspay_klaatu@earthops.net   
      
   Matt wrote:   
   > "Tiny Human Ferret"  wrote in message   
   > news:40E8009C.6090806@earthops.net...   
   >   
   >>>When I was there, the first Burger King was just opening up, so maybe   
   >   
   > you   
   >   
   >>>are right about western name brand stores popping up.  And you're right,   
   >   
   > I   
   >   
   >>>haven't been there in 20 years so maybe things have changed....I just   
   >   
   > doubt   
   >   
   >>>things have changed that much.  Ok.....lets see.  Can women now drive,   
   >   
   > or   
   >   
   >>>vote or go out in public wearing shorts?  Are the newspapers and   
   >   
   > television   
   >   
   >>>no longer censored?  Do they still close down the shops several times a   
   >   
   > day   
   >   
   >>>for prayers?  Do you still have to be a friend of the Royal Family to   
   >   
   > have   
   >   
   >>>any position of power?  Is alchohol now allowed in the country, or pork,   
   >   
   > or   
   >   
   >>>Coka Cola?  Are there now laws regarding selling illegal copies of music   
   >   
   > CDs   
   >   
   >>>or tapes in shops?   
   >>   
   >>No, but in 20 years the population has at least octupled. What was   
   >>formerly a very uncrowded place where anyone who had a complaint could   
   >>go stand in line for a few hours and personally have words with their   
   >>monarch, and generally receive a stipend or a loan or special   
   >>permissions, now you have a country with increasing poverty and   
   >>unemployment, and far less wealth to share among far more people. The   
   >>government is increasingly inaccessible and thought to be more   
   >>unresponsive to the needs of the subjects.   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   > Maybe you should ask yourself why the government is inaccessible and   
   > unresponsive to the needs of the subjects.   
   >   
   > Let me give you a hint.....because that's the way the Royal Family wants it.   
      
   Not really. King Faisal was extremely concerned about the well-being of   
   his subjects particularly in the 1960s, when he expended prodigious   
   amounts of money to modernize Saudi Arabia. In particular, his cmapaign   
   to eradicate the common desert fly vastly improved the health of his   
   subjects. He also spent great amounts of money to modernize the cities.   
   At the time, there weren't all that many Saudis. However, modern   
   healthcare and a very generous government has led to one of the greatest   
   population explosions ever recorded.   
      
   > Not because they don't have the money.  And certainly has nothing to do with   
   > the US.  So you see, it's people like you that blame the US for things we   
   > have no part of.   
      
   I haven't blamed the US for anything. Try to not project onto others   
   whom you have not previously encountered, it only makes you look crazy.   
      
      
      
   --   
   The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may   
   often assume the appearance, and produce the effects,   
   of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy.   
                      --Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"   
      
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