The first comes from Iran, which for some odd reason, hasn't paid a lot of its employees for months. Instapundit quotes a source. Then Glenn Reynolds then provides his own brief conjecture:
Signs that the government may be running out of money have multiplied in recent months. Tens of thousands of civil servants, including school teachers, have not been paid since January. Bills from private contractors working for the government are piling up, threatening the survival of many businesses. . . .
All this may seem surprising if only because Iran has earned almost $150 billion from oil exports since Ahmadinejad won the presidency in 2005. So, were did the money go?
Um, centrifuges, maybe?
1 comment:
Dear Prez (which of course, you aren't),
I fail to see where this bizarre Islamist propaganda addresses the current politics in Iran, namely, that Iran's fascist government is spending money everywhere except where it should: on the betterment of its own people. That was the subject of this blog entry.
The feeble, unrelated faux scholarship presented here is biased and condescending, typical of what we can expect from this quarter. Subordinating Biblical/Old Testament readings to readings from the Koran is, argumentatively speaking, like comparing apples to oranges. Assuming the primacy of Koranic expression, it becomes quite easy to interpret any passage in the Bible as a confirmation of Islam. However, this is false reasoning, as any Jew or Christian can, with equal credibility, interpret passages in the Koran as confirming Judaeo-Christian thought as expressed in the Bible. Proclaiming things so does not make them so.
Good luck, but no converts here.
--W
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