The government’s commitment and efforts to protect people from the drug epidemic that destroys human lives, devastates society, and costs the state enormous sums are highly commendable. These are irreplaceable losses.
Their diligence and scrutiny have extended to considering the symbols and images of users, such as Caribbean reggae singer Bob Marley, to support decisive solutions.
There are issues in Kuwait whose effects and losses are no less significant than drugs, affecting all people, every moment, hour, day, week, and month over lean years, yet they haven’t received the same vigor and decisiveness.
Perhaps most prominent are the negative effects resulting from the population imbalance and human congestion, which costs everyone dreams, efforts, money, lives, and irreplaceable time that cannot be valued.
How many important life projects have been delayed or canceled due to congestion, how many accidents have occurred, how many ambulances and fire trucks have been delayed, and how many urgent cases and critical patients have died due to human pressure?
Not to mention the constant disruption in transactions, transportation, mobility, and medical appointments, for which the government has spent billions building the world’s largest hospitals and a complex road network, all without real benefit.
What about delayed and disrupted daily life errands that strain nerves and consume energy, focus, and effort? What about the cost of solutions like dividing government working hours, which fragments the day and life of Kuwaiti families, while most workers remain outside this system?
If only the imported human surplus, about 80% of whom are basic labor, would add qualitative value to the country through talents, intellectual capabilities, creativity, and industrial skills. If only they would support production and the economy.
Most of what we see is them occupying the country’s facilities and spaces, extracting billions of dirhams after paying tribute to sponsors. The effects: pressure on services, economic decline, and increasing deficit.
What about Kuwaitis feeling like strangers in their country’s facilities and streets?
Perhaps we need copies of Bob Marley among the crowds of miserable workers, and amid congestion everywhere. Copies of him in clinics, hospitals, and service facilities, and a large copy covering Kuwait’s sky so the government will take action.
Rastaman, craven choke puppy!😮💨
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