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New King Orders $29 Billion 'Handouts', Tells Saudi People: "You Deserve More"
Because nothing says "we really do fear social unrest... and please stick with the new king" like Saudi Arabia spewing a massive $29.3 billion spending program that include lavish payments of two months bonus salary to all Saudi state employees and a series of subsidies. As al-Arabiya reports, King Salman bin Abdulaziz has issued a number of decrees because - as he wrote on Twitter (which you may remember is considered "the source of all evil" by the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia) "Dear Citizens, you deserve more," adding "do not forget to include me in your prayers."
Saudi Arabia’s newly inaugurated King Salman bin Abdulaziz has issued a series of landmark orders that ushered in fresh new faces into state institutions and awarded financial support for many Saudis.
And the king ordered a total of $30 billion (112 billion Saudi Riyals) spending in the oil rich kingdom.
The king ordered a lavish payout to all state employees on Thursday and reshuffled some top government jobs while keeping in place the oil, foreign, finance, defense and interior ministers.
The top oil exporter will pay two months bonus salary to all state employees and pension to retired government workers, he said in a series of decrees read aloud on state television a week after Salman succeeded his brother Abdullah as king.
Included in the handouts was $5.3 billion (20 billion riyals) pledged in subsidies for electricity, water, and housing.
And in a commitment to the arts, King Salman pledged $267,000 for each art club in the kingdom.
There was also good news for students, people with special needs and those on social welfare who will also receive two months income.
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"Dear Citizens, You deserve more. Whatever I do is not enough, for you deserve more. I ask God to help me to be in 1 pic.twitter.com/H60VujwlqP
— Salman Bin Abdulaziz (@KingSalmanEN) January 29, 2015
full service of religion and the nation. Do not forget to include me in your prayers" King Salman's official Account. pic.twitter.com/nLMZWR0IkA
— Salman Bin Abdulaziz (@KingSalmanEN) January 29, 2015
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So... inbetween blowjobs... Obammy's whisperings really made an impression I see...
"Panem en suicide bombs"
What part of:
"The king ordered a lavish payout to all STATE employees" does the <ABOVE> junker NOT UNDERSTAND?
Oh I know... It must be CH1 & his usual shenanigans, tomfoolery, & ballyhoo...
Tevya's blessing for the Tzar.... actually the rabbi's,
May God bless and keep the Tzar,
far away from us!
Ya da da dadda dadda didda daddy di!
How do you say "EBT card" in Arabic?
in Yoda voice:
Hmmmm....yesssss...strong with this one, the FSA is...
Abdulazizphones for everyone!
The Saudis have a 'war chest' of several hundred billion dollars to draw on. Although this recent drop in oil prices hurts their bottom line, a lot, they still have some of the lowest costs of extraction in the world , and they are not dropping production. Essentially they are betting that they can help drive the oil price low enough and keep it there long enough to shut down higher cost/ barrel producers like the us /Canadian shale fields as well as Russia, while at the same time using that surplus of dollars to keep their peasants in line(and their heads off a pike) so that the price goes back up before they run out of money. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
At least the king offered the peasants something very substantial, what did the Repukes or Barry Odumbo give the peasants? Not even a 2% wage tax abolishment? Wake me up when America rightfully implodes and crashes !
'Merikans are MUCH cheaper to bribe..... an EBT card works for the masses - and look how cheaply our politicians can be bought
The peasants there make more money than you make. To them, You are the peasant
I and many others said on day 1 when oil was cArshing and many were giving the usual "the saudis can afford 40 dollar oil", that in fact they, for reasons of political survival, are the last country in the wolrd who can handle perniciously low oil prices.
This illustrates that point perfectly.
All I know is that it would be a hell of a thing to be a fly on the wall when the wheels fly off that bitch. Imagine a whole country whose entire population consists of bored, horny, repressed, ill-mannered, and poorly disciplined teenagers. The only thing keeping them in check is a generous allowance.
Jealous are we? I can admit that I am...
It's just like here in Murica. More for the .gov workers. And the term "workers" is generous.
King Salman Bin sounding like a Democrat strategist.
I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... www.globe-report.com
Let's see you anti-semitic cocksuckers defend THIS!
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G-ddamn it, wrong article. Now I don't get paid for this comment. Fucking Megaphone (TM) software acting up.
acting? try again...
Or, you could use full sentences, to actually explain what you mean. Give it a go. It's exhilirating.
Son ~ You don't really want to mess with me now do you?
Hint: you could start by attaching the link that you #FUKKED up doing the first time...
By the way... What's the weather like in Ft. Meade tonight?
ZH'ers, raise a toast! ~ we have another LIVE ONE [5 days old ~ fresh from the incubator]
What link? I never tried to attach one.
But you're right. I don't want to mess with a guy who's hinting he may be Burgess Meredith. You could know Rocky.
Whaddaya say we forget about this? Let’s hug and make up...
Hey, I didn’t say you could put your hands on my ass!
And gimme back my wallet!
I mean it! It’s got my membership card for the William Shatner fan club! *You’re playing with fire!*
"G-ddamn it, wrong article. Now I don't get paid for this comment. Fucking Megaphone (TM) software acting up."
Jesus Tapdancing Christ on a Fudgesicle balanced on a spinning hotplate... For as innoculous as these comments are/were, you seem to have the RED ARROW ARMY [which usually accompanies these comments from a 5 weeker] on full alert...
Relax pal! I'm sure you'll get paid your promised sheckels in the end...
You're magnificent when you're angry.
But I still want my William Shatner fanclub card back.
Come on man. Don't Jew me on it.
What do jews have to do with any of this?
what don't the jews have to do with any of this?
there ya go, chickun. now you'll get paid.
Well, I thought I had seen everything...and now I've had my dose of Chickun.
Then again, the Superbowl Rally commercial foreshadowed this day...
WOAR ~
"It never ends..." ~ Achilles of Sparta
I'll have those towel-heads voting Saud for 100 years!
Lyndon Bin Aziz!...lol.
Thanks for the racist comment Mr. Hollywood, diabetes, prozac, land of the free "democracy".
Yes, Johnson was a bigot.
"Dear Citizens, you deserve more," adding "do not forget to include me in your prayers."
From the People...
Dear King
You're going to need a lot more than paper money to fix the last 5 decades alone!!!!
Oh isn't it such fun when the lions are showing a 4th and 5th rib and are hungry out of their minds for the dinner they've never had....
Like "King"!
Behead those who don't pray for him!!!
Pepe Escobar and David Hearst:: "The Saudi Palace Coup" http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-02-260115.html
old news, but all is relative in the quasi-universe of chaos
Collapse must close. Elites bribing now.
American elites scared - look at the Drudge Report right now. They're pushing HARD for Scott Walker.
Neocon radio hosts going crazy over new wunderkind Scott Walker because he's not a Bush or Clinton.
Oops! Looks like He's a Bush:
http://www.dailypaul.com/290921/whoa-wisconsin-governor-scott-walker-is-...
It's a Bush or Clinton. There are no other choices.
So dictates Israel and Saudi Arabia. They need a reliable guy for when the fireworks starts for TLWW (The Last World War).
I'm on board with that except to say...
IT NEVER ENDS!
He met with Obama last week ... !
How conveeeenient.
Ok, one last time..."If you like your serfdom, you can keep it!"
So this dude is giving away treasure from the royal coffers, and just yesterday I read some conspiro-nutjob assert that this dood was descended from some Meccan Jew colony from Mohamhead's time.
So which is he? The stereotypical greedy, miserly Jew or just your average spendthrift sandjigger?
Conundrum answer = YES
wow, actually giving some to the people. what a concept. the fed just gives it to maggots.
$29 billion is small change to the amount the Saudis spent on 9/11 attacks and bribes etc
Don't tell that to 'Chickun'
How does one become a Saudi citizen? A friend of mine wants to know
Sounds familiar? Salmancare?
29 billion buys a lot of votes from an unproductive populace. The arab version of the FSA. Outside of oil, what what productive or intelligent thing has ever come out of the arab panensulia?
These guys would be fucked without oil, i can't stand them. If the executioners chop of one head and get paid for two, is it still socialism?
Hey King! I support you. Can I have some too.
No US dollars. Gold only. Live long and prosper.
Everybody wants some!
I want some too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAktV72_nnE
ROCK ON!
Major miscalculation
Kindness, being fair... is seen as weakness in the region
He should have started out his rule with a massacre, or two, then a purge, followed by more massacres
Leave the King alone, punk.
I forgot to add a blitz of beheadings / stonings
Since you're his new bff, would you let him know
Die infidel!
King Salmon is as ugly as a sockeye (pig blood upon him).
Breastfeeding Saudi Men for UN Oil scandal 2015. Let’s watch Emily give you her digital tits to prime another war… Must watch.. You’ll get it! It’s much better now..Start from beginning first.
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Giving out some free goodies is the "proper" thing to do whenever a new monarch comes to the throne.
It's a human tradition, and has being done since antiquity across many civilisations.
Europe used to do it just as often not so long ago as well, when states were still kingdoms.
stop parroting MSM memes Tylers, doing something that kingdoms and monarchies have always done is hardly evidence of "fearing social unrest"
"Black Friday" is regularly happening every year.
But still working OK.
wtf, "spending program" is coincidentally the exact same size as their annual budget?
Memo to King,
QE FOR THE PEOPLE?! You're doing it wrong...
Aw Man and here i thought the Worlds Helicopters were warming up..
Now if the Greeks could just get theirs.
When all else fails...
Pay them off...
At $45/bbl he'll have a good time paying for all this.
The two months bonus salary and pension will be spent quickly. Then Dear citizens will remember only You Deserve More.
So they are giving out paper with funny pictures. That should help when they do not have energy or food left.
That all looks like very sustainable financial and fiscal actions, no ?
Dear powerfuless plebs,
Do not fear me, in fact workship me. I can behead you but I can also make you moar rich. I am your new moarmal.
Your new god in throne
Crazy,liberal I dont care since 2007 I have always thought that this would be the best case for the USA it would work and would save us billions and prop the middle class who has been screwed since the 1990's this will help the people who were ass raped by corporations who stole their pensions and savings which were held in the corporations they worked their lifetimes.
As good a reason as any to go long Tesla's
Yes Virginia, there is a Saudi Claus.