For the last two days the parliament made its first step to represent Iraqi people. The minister of trade was called to be questioned for corruption and misusing authorities.
As an Iraqi citizen I want the parliament members or the representatives to feel the Iraqi citizen’s needs and problems to be discussed and dealt in the sessions. Most Iraqis including me have many points against the people’s representatives as they were focusing on the privileges they can get for the period they occupy the position leaving the people’s important issues postponed.
On Saturday and Sunday’s sessions, Iraqi people were watching T.V. and seeing the integrity committee do its job questioning the trade minister of the corruption in his ministry. We don’t know if the parliament will vote for the no confidence or not, but we are happy that the parliament is going forward to deal with the problems that Iraqi have been suffering from including corruption.
In the last few years we were struggling from the terrorists and the sectarian violence with the bad relationship with our neighboring countries ,but nowadays other things come to the surface.
The most dangerous issue that Iraq suffers from is corruption. All those officials who are accused in corruption, from 2003 till 2008,were using the lack of security and the violence as excuses to keep their positions and to steal more and more money. Some of them fled the country when they were about to be sued. We had two former ministers as good examples.
The decrease in violence reveals or removes the cover which has been used by those corrupted officials or contractors. Thus, this issue comes on the surface and facts become to appear and those people should be replaced.
I believe that the government should focus on this side as it says that this year is the year of construction. Also the parliament should do its duty to monitor the government to do so.
Corruption in Iraq? With all the corruption in the US I don't think we should be all over anyone else about corruption until we clean up our own house.
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You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a crooked as a dog's hind leg politician in DC. We didn't get to be trillions in debt as a nation through the same great management we ccuse GM of having?
I'm a little confused about McClatchy newspapers, report the drug trade in Afghanistan, no problem, but the Boise, ID Statesman, an affilate, won't report a story on a local dairy, sixth largest in the nation, for kickbacks in transportation, unsanitary warehouse, & transportation conditions? Report all kinds of food safety related stories, downwinders in Idaho, & give unsanitary dairy a pass in Idaho?
Pictures can be seen on www.nextrevolution.net all through FOIA, but the Statesman, while recently suggesting we as Americans should step up & do what is right, won't touch it. Contradicting? Talk teh talk but don't walk the walk?
The Statesman editorial board recently printed our view suggesting we as individuals not allow two drunks to urinate on a sleeping bum. Hoffman wrote an article suggesting we should report what we know if someone committing insurance fraud, & not par take in anything like it because it runs up the cost of insurance.
The Gov of Idaho, Otter recently tried to raise vehicle & fuel taxes to pay for roads. Otter wouldn't look into kickbacks in transportation in the highly subsidized dairy industry when I wrote him, like interim GOV Risch now a US Senator. Campaign finance isn't corruption?
The Statesman was in support of Otter raising our fuel taxes but like Otter wouldn't investigate kickbacks in transportation?
My boss at Darigold was leasing old semi trailers at $1,200 a month for years on end, trailers that could have been purchased for $5000 one time cost.
The Statesman did an article recently about an Idaho Tax Commission employee blowing the whistle because out of state corporations were let off the hook for millions in taxes. They hire accountants heavy into tax knowledge. Darigold licensed trucks in Oregon, cheaper I imagine while Otter tried to raise our individual vehicle tax 150%.
My question to Gov Otter, Idaho Statesman, Senatror Risch, & McClatchy papers is, since they are all about corruption in Iraq, why aren't they willing to investigate corruption here in the US?
Are tax cuts & incentives so lucrative that campaign contributors can lease semi trailers at $1,200 a month for years on end, trailers they could buy for a one time cost of $5000, they would lease rather than buy?
If the tax commission & legislators are either so imcompetent or beholden to campaign contributors, they would raise individual taxes while looking the other way when a corporation is let off the hook for millions, we are not being represented.
Darigold used my idea & leased a warehouse in Boise rather than Fruilan, ID saving hundreds if not thousands of $ a day, millions of $ in fact over the years yet I was fired. Interim Gov Risch did nothing & Gov Otter suggested the FDA & USDA do inpsections.
Why did I have to report, send pictures to the USDA to clean up transportation & warehousing that hadn't been for two years? The Statesman printed a story just today about the FDA, lags in food safety, audits.
Odd, the same paper won't investigate unsanitary transportation & warehousing the Gov suggest the FDA does inspections on?
There is a can of worms in Boise, ID & the people of Idaho are too foolish or scared to say or do anything. What about the rest of America? When your kid gets sick after you did nothing, who is really to blame?
Is McClatchy the kind of paper that would sit by & do nothing as well, like their affiliate, the Statesman in Boise?
It should be of interest that the dairy products, many private label were sold in McDonalds, Burger King, WINCO, Ridley's, Paul's, Safeway, COSTCO, & others.
At times as a driver I personally delivered milk one day, picked up what was turned back in as bad the next, & replaced with what might have been just as bad as the milk I was picking up. They re-ran milk several times before it made it to the customer sometimes.
Git milk? Three a day? Some pictures on www.nextrevolution.net are of a hog farm we used to dump milk that never did pass the re-run stage, several times. With swine flu all the news, it's kind of sad looking at a hog farm you would believe was in a third world country yet right here in Idaho. illegal immigrants shooting & butchering hogs right out there in the hog dust on a hot Idaho desert day. Pork, the other white meat.
illegal immgration isn't a problem either is it?
Posted by: greyghost | May 19, 2009 at 02:22 PM