Comments on: How Poor Will You Be This Time Next Year? http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/ A Jordanian Blog Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:34:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Global Voices Online » Jordan: Film Festivals, Citizenship Law and More http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110346 Global Voices Online » Jordan: Film Festivals, Citizenship Law and More Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:14:36 +0000 http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110346 [...] More on that here and here. [...] […] More on that here and here. […]

]]> By: moi http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110321 moi Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:12:14 +0000 http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110321 This is so disheartening. Speaking to my grandparents in Jordan, I can sense the frustration about all these price increases. They are middle class Jordanians, with sons working in the Gulf who are well off and supporting them financially, and somehow it's just never enough because one can't keep up with ever increasing costs. I can't imagine how thousands of others without this kind of support to fall back on are living and dealing with the cold winter and other concerns. Nas, it would be great if you could highlight this issue (esp with regards to people not affording heating in the winter) on 7iber.com or something like that. I really am curious to see how people in the poorest villages are able to get through this crisis. May God help them. This is so disheartening. Speaking to my grandparents in Jordan, I can sense the frustration about all these price increases. They are middle class Jordanians, with sons working in the Gulf who are well off and supporting them financially, and somehow it’s just never enough because one can’t keep up with ever increasing costs. I can’t imagine how thousands of others without this kind of support to fall back on are living and dealing with the cold winter and other concerns.
Nas, it would be great if you could highlight this issue (esp with regards to people not affording heating in the winter) on 7iber.com or something like that. I really am curious to see how people in the poorest villages are able to get through this crisis. May God help them.

]]> By: Awartany http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110316 Awartany Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:41:35 +0000 http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110316 I have a scenario in mind which I think will take place when they raise oil derivatives price. Our King Abdallah 2nd will make a statement ordering responsible parties to reduce prices by let's say 10% of the increased price! Assuming they will increase jarret elghaz to JOD 9.90, King Abdallah 2nd will order to reduce the price to JOD 8 or something! Don't be so pessimistic guys; we have someone still defending us :) LOL! I have a scenario in mind which I think will take place when they raise oil derivatives price. Our King Abdallah 2nd will make a statement ordering responsible parties to reduce prices by let’s say 10% of the increased price! Assuming they will increase jarret elghaz to JOD 9.90, King Abdallah 2nd will order to reduce the price to JOD 8 or something! Don’t be so pessimistic guys; we have someone still defending us :) LOL!

]]> By: Umm Zaid http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110313 Umm Zaid Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:34:27 +0000 http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110313 Salaam 'Alaikum I don't know how people are making it, I really don't. I don't know how those of us who don't make 600 or 700 or more per month are living. Because even if your income is at that level or higher, it's a challenge. I never thought I would come to a country where the cost of living is so much lower than NYC and find myself saying, "This costs how much???" when I look at meat or chicken. Salaam ‘Alaikum

I don’t know how people are making it, I really don’t. I don’t know how those of us who don’t make 600 or 700 or more per month are living. Because even if your income is at that level or higher, it’s a challenge. I never thought I would come to a country where the cost of living is so much lower than NYC and find myself saying, “This costs how much???” when I look at meat or chicken.

]]> By: UmmFarouq http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110311 UmmFarouq Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:06:18 +0000 http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110311 When the 'meat of the poor,' brown 'addas to make m'jederah, rose from 35 qirsh a kilo to one JD, I thought, "It can't get worse than this." Now I can barely buy a small chicken for under 3 JD in most parts of the city. The melancholy chime of the gas truck is truly carrying a sad tune to our homes; within a week we will be paying 9.90 JD for one propane tank, a more than double increase. This is pure insanity. We have not used the diesel fuel to heat our home this year because we knew that the sobah was a cheaper alternative. Now there are no cheaper alternatives, and the electric company is sitting with hands clasped in greed, waiting for all of us suckers to drive up our electric bills threefold for the remainder of the winter season. I honestly cannot understand how this can continue. But hey, we've got two super duper new bridges on Madina Tabiyyah and some really lame looking towers we can see from Mt. Nebo at the fifth circle. Yiptee doooo. When the ‘meat of the poor,’ brown ‘addas to make m’jederah, rose from 35 qirsh a kilo to one JD, I thought, “It can’t get worse than this.”

Now I can barely buy a small chicken for under 3 JD in most parts of the city. The melancholy chime of the gas truck is truly carrying a sad tune to our homes; within a week we will be paying 9.90 JD for one propane tank, a more than double increase. This is pure insanity. We have not used the diesel fuel to heat our home this year because we knew that the sobah was a cheaper alternative. Now there are no cheaper alternatives, and the electric company is sitting with hands clasped in greed, waiting for all of us suckers to drive up our electric bills threefold for the remainder of the winter season.

I honestly cannot understand how this can continue.

But hey, we’ve got two super duper new bridges on Madina Tabiyyah and some really lame looking towers we can see from Mt. Nebo at the fifth circle. Yiptee doooo.

]]> By: masalha1 http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110310 masalha1 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:11:41 +0000 http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110310 Nas, Government should start building more prisons, for all of those who will be willing to steal so their children won't go to bed cold and hungry. 35% of Jordanians live below poverty level, yet Fahad Alfanek is warning of the return of the welfare state, as if our beloved government is giving hands outs all year long. Most decision makers in Jordan lost touch with reality, they live in western Amman and thats all they see, I know people in the Jordan valley live on bread and tea if they can find it, I have seen kids wait in line at chicken shops to take home the intestines and legs to have a meal, yes sir they do, those people eat red meat once or twice a year. What will happen to those people? what will happen to those who wonder why they exisited in the first place? what will happen to those who get their daily meal out of gabage dumbsters evry day? A human can only tolerates so much, and we have become a society of sheeps, and we are so grateful to the government for allowing us to breath free oxygin before they start charging us for it. Nas,
Government should start building more prisons, for all of those who will be willing to steal so their children won’t go to bed cold and hungry.
35% of Jordanians live below poverty level, yet Fahad Alfanek is warning of the return of the welfare state, as if our beloved government is giving hands outs all year long.
Most decision makers in Jordan lost touch with reality, they live in western Amman and thats all they see, I know people in the Jordan valley live on bread and tea if they can find it, I have seen kids wait in line at chicken shops to take home the intestines and legs to have a meal, yes sir they do, those people eat red meat once or twice a year.
What will happen to those people? what will happen to those who wonder why they exisited in the first place? what will happen to those who get their daily meal out of gabage dumbsters evry day?
A human can only tolerates so much, and we have become a society of sheeps, and we are so grateful to the government for allowing us to breath free oxygin before they start charging us for it.

]]> By: AlurduniAlhurr http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110306 AlurduniAlhurr Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:20:32 +0000 http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110306 Mohannad,,,,,The "free" market is corruption by and it's self,,all our assets has been sold to the same corrupt high official that advocated the selling of our national assets..Enjoy Mohannad,,,,,The “free” market is corruption by and it’s self,,all our assets has been sold to the same corrupt high official that advocated the selling of our national assets..Enjoy

]]> By: Mohanned http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110304 Mohanned Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:33:57 +0000 http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110304 Don't blame the free market economy, blame the lame corrupt system that abuses every aspect of our lifes... Anywho allah y3een el nas(including you nas)! lets give it one ya3eesh ya3eesh ya3eesh 3shan el shabab el 6aybbeh! Don’t blame the free market economy, blame the lame corrupt system that abuses every aspect of our lifes…
Anywho allah y3een el nas(including you nas)!

lets give it one ya3eesh ya3eesh ya3eesh 3shan el shabab el 6aybbeh!

]]> By: AlurduniAlhurr http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110296 AlurduniAlhurr Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:42:45 +0000 http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110296 I have warned all of you about the pathetic privatisation program before ,but nobody listen to me, and some even riduculed me,I just have one question for all the "free" market economy enthusiasts ,do you like what see and how privatisation process has done to our poor segment of our majority? Enjoy I have warned all of you about the pathetic privatisation program before ,but nobody listen to me, and some even riduculed me,I just have one question for all the “free” market economy enthusiasts ,do you like what see and how privatisation process has done to our poor segment of our majority? Enjoy

]]> By: Awartany http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110290 Awartany Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:28:12 +0000 http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110290 <b><i>P.S: Answering the question “How Poor Will You Be This Time Next Year?” I think the question should be rephrased to “Will You Be This Time Next Year?!” </i></b> P.S: Answering the question “How Poor Will You Be This Time Next Year?” I think the question should be rephrased to “Will You Be This Time Next Year?!”

]]> By: Awartany http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110289 Awartany Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:24:41 +0000 http://www.black-iris.com/2007/12/27/how-poor-will-you-be-this-time-next-year/#comment-110289 The situation is becoming even harder. We need management, a wise one... Enough lying, enough saying that we are in a great shape, enough pretending as the greatest nation on earth, enough……………………………… I’m really sick of all this. We all do… N5anagna ya a5y, bekaffy!!! What hurts more is that nobody is not doing nor saying nothing. I really don’t know what to say! Every time I try to start commenting on such thing, I feel like I need all world papers, so I stop. Why bother? Will it change anything? Or rather will it change EVRYTHING? Unfortunately it won’t. God bless Jordan. The situation is becoming even harder. We need management, a wise one… Enough lying, enough saying that we are in a great shape, enough pretending as the greatest nation on earth, enough……………………………… I’m really sick of all this. We all do… N5anagna ya a5y, bekaffy!!! What hurts more is that nobody is not doing nor saying nothing. I really don’t know what to say! Every time I try to start commenting on such thing, I feel like I need all world papers, so I stop. Why bother? Will it change anything? Or rather will it change EVRYTHING? Unfortunately it won’t.

God bless Jordan.

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