So yesterday was the first day of campaigning for Egypts first presidential elections. Now I usually can't take Mubarak's crap so I saw all of 2 minutes of his campaign speech. And hating the crap we always get I couldn't stand reading the details in Al-Ahram. I do believe that I got a good idea of what it was all about. So here are a few points.
1. Mubarak and his guys couldn't care less about Egyptian citizens. They didn't tell us (as far as I know) where the speach was being held. So just picture all the frustrated people who have to cope with the traffic block up because his highness is giving a speech in Al-Azhar garden. I mean tell people ahead of time so they can plan ahead.
2. Mubarak's way of giving speeches just is so boring. 24 years and he can't learn how to give a speech that actuall makes it sound like its his words. We don't want to hear what your speech writer has for us, we want what you have to say, if there is anything.
3. The headlines in Al-Ahram were just silly. So you promise 4 million jobs. That's in your 6-year term? Well if we get a minimum of 600 thousand college graduates a year the number of unemployed people would drop by 400 thousand than the current numer. Seeing that not all unemployed people have college degrees, you could put a rough estimate that 800 thousand people are added to the unemployed list annually. That means you'd have 600 thousand more unemployed people in 2011 than now. Yes unemployment rate might stabalize but its already high.
4. We will build 1000 factories. Now that's a great statement. But what are those factories going to do. What about factories that are currently shut down? Maybe something more precise, like what kind of industries you're going to encourage and so, whould be a little more realistic.
5. We will cultivate 1 million faddans. Anywhere specific? But then we've already heard this so many times before, this is just a bag of gas.
6. We'll build 80 thousand appartments a year. Why build any at all? Mostly because you never have the for sight to see what's going to happen and if you don't build somewhere, people will come there and build in any old way just like alot of places in Cairo and other cities. When it's about housing, you always act after the problem explodes. Why are ther so many chaotic places in Egypt? Can't things be planned ahead? Or at least halted when a bad trend starts. I mean if you see these houses poppong up and the area isn't planned. Stop them, plan the area and then let them build. You end up trying to impove the area later anyways.
7. Can we really believe speach of reform? I mean how are you going to reform things that took more than fifty years to develop most of it under your own rule. The saying is, you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
8. If this were a genuine elections Mubarak would have no chance of winning. What's it with wanting it to look like G W Bush speech? What were those few dozen people behind Mubarak? It just looked silly. And were regular people allowed to attend. The size of attendance didn't seem to suggest that. It looked like an open air run-of-the-mill Mubarak speech not a presedential campaign.
9. Why can't people put up banners for canidates? Heck why can't the parties either. I'm not talking about the NDP of course.
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