Chapter 657: Another Tragic Iraqi Government
There have always been a lot of negative rumors about the Future Technology Group, which has made many simple-minded Iraqis not have much good opinion of the Future Technology Group.
But as soon as such news appeared, it quickly subverted the impression of future technology group in many people's minds.
Although this person has also joined the nationality of Iraq and is considered an Iraqi, it is difficult for Iraqis to identify with Iraqis because of their different races.
However, in just two years since the establishment of the Future Technology Group, in addition to those Iraqis near Marin Town, even those in those towns in southern Iraq can feel the changes brought by the Future Technology Group, all of which are closely related to the lives of every Iraqi.
But there are still too many people with a heart, and all kinds of propaganda have always been all kinds of negative news about Future Technology Group.
And those who lack vision and reason are easily misled.
But fortunately, Future Technology Group has done a lot all along, and even those who have never been in contact with Future Technology Group can see some of the benefits associated with it.
It's just that in the big picture, due to the relationship between the negative news in the market, there has been no good change.
This time, as soon as all kinds of overwhelming news came out in Iraq, it was no less than a brainstorming that swept everyone.
Because with the exposure of this huge corruption case, Cai Ruichen's angry appearance, and the accusations of tens of thousands of Baghdad families, more news was immediately exposed.
It turned out that unconsciously, Future Technology Group has come to the side of every Iraqi person.
The real-priced food and commodities that every Iraq is buying now are all imported from abroad by Future Technology Group at a high price, and the price of selling is always lower than the cost and price of imports.
In order to maintain domestic prices. It has always been at a rate about the same as the per capita income level.
If such news is nothing, it has been maintained for more than a year, and there have been no non-accidental power outages, which has always been the result of the efforts of Future Technology Group.
It is only now that most Iraqis are aware of the electricity they are currently using. All of them were provided to every city and township by the Future Technology Group at the lowest price, after charging a small fee to the Iraqi government.
The Iraqi government also charged more electricity bills, and when the price of electricity was announced by the media, more Iraqis felt angry.
In the past year, the Iraqi government has increased electricity bills three times, and Iraqis have not thought much about it when the supply of electricity has been very stable. Maybe these electricity are really not easy to come by.
But as a result, all the electricity has been sent to Iraq's national grid at a very cheap price by Future Technology Group.
The Iraqi government is paying much cheaper for the electricity it receives than it would have to pay for its own electricity.
However, in terms of electricity charges, not only is it already very high. In the case that the future technology group has not increased the price, it is unilaterally in the citizens' electricity bills. Grew three times.
And in addition to these news, there is much more that has been revealed by the media, and by the time the Iraqi government wants to stop some of them, it will be too late.
The rehabilitation of Iraq's national infrastructure is a huge undertaking. It is also a long project, but what is unacceptable to the Iraqis is that this should be a government-funded project, but in fact, it has always been the exclusive responsibility of Future Technology Group. It's as if the Future Tech Group is the government of the Iraqis.
Citizens pay taxes, and the state provides citizens with basic public social security, which is the most basic obligation of both parties, and this obligation is the most basic relationship between citizens and the state in any country in the world.
However, the taxes paid by Iraqis go into the pockets of the Iraqi government, which provides them with basic public social security, but it is an Iraqi ethnic Chinese who is still trying to get more money from the citizens.
This completely contradictory fact has made many Iraqis who understand a little bit more extremely angry.
If a government can't even provide basic public social security, and this kind of rigid spending can't be done, then why should citizens pay taxes to the government?
And this kind of problem is not the only problem, as soon as a corruption case of more than $5 billion appears, the series of consequences triggered by it are extremely huge.
Cai Ruichen did not make any further contributions, but just allowed the incident to develop further, and the results of the discovery of the matter far exceeded everyone's expectations.
When a new piece of news was released in the foreign media, almost no Iraqis felt calm anymore.
The content of the news is very simple, the Iraqi government has no money, and all military expenditures have always been borne by Future Technology Group.
If a country needs to bear even the expenses of the armed forces by an enterprise, does that mean that the country has already put its national defense in the hands of an enterprise?
If everything before was acceptable to Iraqis, then this incident has become the last straw that crushes every Iraqi and bears the bottom line in their hearts.
The Iraqi government, aware of the bad one, was also quick to react.
Hafez stood at the government's press conference, in front of all the people on Iraqi national television, and began to explain the events one by one.
The military matter is that the Iraqi government borrows money from the Future Technology Group, and in fact, the military expenses of the Iraqi government army are still provided by the government.
The basic living guarantee, which is also a loan from the government to the Future Technology Group, is to make every Iraqi have a better living environment.
As for the corruption incident, Hafez solemnly stated to everyone in the country that all those involved in this incident will be severely punished, and all the news will be made public to everyone.
Finally, Hafez also had to explain that the Iraqi government is really out of money, because of the oil price, the government's fiscal deficit this year is expected to exceed $80 billion, and the government's revenue has reached a record low of $30 billion.
Faced with such a huge fiscal deficit, and last year's fiscal deficit combined, it was enough to bankrupt the Iraqi government.
At the press conference, Hafez first admitted his mistake and expressed his gratitude to Future Technology Group, claiming that if it were not for the help of Future Technology Group, the current government would have gone bankrupt when the international oil price was reduced to $50 a barrel. (To be continued.) )