Ahmadinejad's Party Attacks Him Over Jocular Attitude On Inflation - The Orange Mane

alkemical · 09-20-2007, 04:41 PM

Ahmadinejad's Party Attacks Him Over Jocular Attitude On Inflation

In Iran, living costs spiral, rising prices hurting poor, say fundamentalists.

Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has suffered an embarrassing blow to his prestige after his own party attacked him for adopting a jocular tone towards inflation at a time of rampant price rises.
The Islamic Revolution Devotees Society - a fundamentalist grouping of revolutionary veterans co-founded by Ahmadinejad - has added its voice to a rising chorus of economic discontent by warning the president that spiralling living costs are hurting the poor and undermining his stated goal of social justice.

The society says the government is to blame because it embarked on extravagant projects while failing to control the money supply. "Unrestrained inflation increases the pressure on the weak and leads to the poor becoming poorer as owners of non-monetary assets get richer," it says in an economic report. "The result is counter to the goals, plans and slogans of Dr. Ahmadinejad's government."
The report also accuses Ahmadinejad and other officials of refusing to acknowledge the problem and of making light of it with inappropriate jokes. It says: "Sometimes some high-ranking government officials deny the growth of prices and deal with them through making jokes. To deny the current inflation or ignoring it through jokes is totally unacceptable."

Ahmadinejad has frequently dismissed complaints of rising prices as the invention of a hostile media and blamed "secret networks" for rising house prices. This year he responded to protests by members of Iran's parliament over the rising price of tomatoes by urging them to visit his local greengrocer in Narmak in east Tehran. He also answered recent criticism of his policies by saying he took advice from his local butcher. "There is an honorable butcher in our neighborhood who knows all the economic problems of the people. I get my economic information from him," he said.

The latest report implicitly criticizes his contemptuous view of economics by describing it as a "specialized science" and says Iran's inflationary problems cannot be solved by "ad hoc decisions". That may partly refer to one of Ahmadinejad's most controversial recent moves in which he ordered banks to cut interest rates to 12% - below inflation, which is estimated at between 20% and 30%.

Ahmadinejad is on record as saying, "I pray to God I never know about economics". That echoes a comment attributed to the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, who is alleged to have said that "economics is for donkeys".

Bronco Bob · 09-20-2007, 04:56 PM

Smirking Chimp = Smirking Baboon

The two of them were joined at the hip at birth.

You could just about replace the Iranian names and place with
American names and places and you'd have the same basic story,
a government out of touch with the people and proud of it.

alkemical · 09-20-2007, 04:59 PM

welcome to whereever you are

Bronco Bob · 09-20-2007, 05:35 PM

And no matter where you go, there you are.

Rohirrim · 09-20-2007, 08:42 PM

Gee, it almost sounds as if we could make moves to destabilize the Ahmadjihad government is we had someone with half a brain in the WH. Better to rattle a saber at him so that he can use it as a tool in his fear mongering to unite his people behind him. It's funny, when you look at it that way. He and Bush are more similar than not.

L.A. BRONCOS FAN · 09-21-2007, 03:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

Gee, it almost sounds as if we could make moves to destabilize the Ahmadjihad government is we had someone with half a brain in the WH. Better to rattle a saber at him so that he can use it as a tool in his fear mongering to unite his people behind him. It's funny, when you look at it that way. He and Bush are more similar than not.

Exactly.

Our image with the Iranian people (particularly the youth) was pretty positive before Oil Boy came along and started throwing his weight around.

After 9/11, there were demonstrations of support for America by people in the streets of Tehran.

Didn't take the smirking pinhead long to squander that good will.

09-20-2007, 04:41 PM	#1
alkemical Guerrilla Ontologist rorrim\|mirror Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Future Posts: 42,691 Adopt-a-Bronco: Prima Materia	Ahmadinejad's Party Attacks Him Over Jocular Attitude On Inflation Ahmadinejad's Party Attacks Him Over Jocular Attitude On Inflation In Iran, living costs spiral, rising prices hurting poor, say fundamentalists. Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has suffered an embarrassing blow to his prestige after his own party attacked him for adopting a jocular tone towards inflation at a time of rampant price rises. The Islamic Revolution Devotees Society - a fundamentalist grouping of revolutionary veterans co-founded by Ahmadinejad - has added its voice to a rising chorus of economic discontent by warning the president that spiralling living costs are hurting the poor and undermining his stated goal of social justice. The society says the government is to blame because it embarked on extravagant projects while failing to control the money supply. "Unrestrained inflation increases the pressure on the weak and leads to the poor becoming poorer as owners of non-monetary assets get richer," it says in an economic report. "The result is counter to the goals, plans and slogans of Dr. Ahmadinejad's government." The report also accuses Ahmadinejad and other officials of refusing to acknowledge the problem and of making light of it with inappropriate jokes. It says: "Sometimes some high-ranking government officials deny the growth of prices and deal with them through making jokes. To deny the current inflation or ignoring it through jokes is totally unacceptable." Ahmadinejad has frequently dismissed complaints of rising prices as the invention of a hostile media and blamed "secret networks" for rising house prices. This year he responded to protests by members of Iran's parliament over the rising price of tomatoes by urging them to visit his local greengrocer in Narmak in east Tehran. He also answered recent criticism of his policies by saying he took advice from his local butcher. "There is an honorable butcher in our neighborhood who knows all the economic problems of the people. I get my economic information from him," he said. The latest report implicitly criticizes his contemptuous view of economics by describing it as a "specialized science" and says Iran's inflationary problems cannot be solved by "ad hoc decisions". That may partly refer to one of Ahmadinejad's most controversial recent moves in which he ordered banks to cut interest rates to 12% - below inflation, which is estimated at between 20% and 30%. Ahmadinejad is on record as saying, "I pray to God I never know about economics". That echoes a comment attributed to the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, who is alleged to have said that "economics is for donkeys".

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09-20-2007, 04:56 PM	#2
Bronco Bob Tastee Freeze Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 9,464 Adopt-a-Bronco: Champ Bailey	Smirking Chimp = Smirking Baboon The two of them were joined at the hip at birth. You could just about replace the Iranian names and place with American names and places and you'd have the same basic story, a government out of touch with the people and proud of it.

09-20-2007, 04:59 PM	#3
alkemical Guerrilla Ontologist rorrim\|mirror Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Future Posts: 42,691 Adopt-a-Bronco: Prima Materia	welcome to whereever you are

09-20-2007, 05:35 PM	#4
Bronco Bob Tastee Freeze Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 9,464 Adopt-a-Bronco: Champ Bailey	And no matter where you go, there you are.

09-20-2007, 08:42 PM	#5
Rohirrim Partisan Human Cannonball Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Twixt Hell & Highwater Posts: 48,801	Gee, it almost sounds as if we could make moves to destabilize the Ahmadjihad government is we had someone with half a brain in the WH. Better to rattle a saber at him so that he can use it as a tool in his fear mongering to unite his people behind him. It's funny, when you look at it that way. He and Bush are more similar than not.