Kidding aside – I do have to wonder, how long will such countries be able to restrain such voices in a world smaller by the benefits of Internet & travel technologies – and broadened by an emerging global economy?

“…..We have to admit that what is destroying our country and what has left it at those embarrassing low levels in pretty much everything is the “charity economy”. Charity in this context meaning some people being awarded something they do not deserve. Like for example the transportation licenses or “generosities” distributed by the king on those who pass him notes filled with sympathy-generating phrases – the same phrases that beggars usually use while holding their hands out on pavements. Countries that respect their citizens do not turn them into beggars soliciting help from hierarchy but instead provide them with workshops and factories to work and make a living in honour and dignity. Even if we assume that those “generosities” are being handed out to those who deserve them (poor people, people with special needs (disabled),..etc) – which is of course highly unlikely – this is not something that should make the citizens proud at all – work, education and health benefits are constitutional rights which the state should provide to its citizens without humiliating them in this demeaning manner.

In addition, those “generosities” should not be under the king’s control for him to hand out whichever way he wish without any accountability – awarding them to whoever throws a word of praise in his ear. Because this will create armies of suck-ups who instead of trying to earn a living through work and sweat are earning their living through words of praise and applaud – most of which lacks credibility anyway – and hence the king would be encouraging dependency among his people.
And because this will also make us a population without any dignity – given the fact that we are living on tips (little gifts) and giveaways.
…In reality we are not in need of someone who would sympathise with us but for someone who would equally distribute our countries wealth among us…”

The full article in Arabic can be found here.
http://hespress.com/article-erraji.html