[GJM] Astounding speeches by President Ghadaffi (2)

[Rodney Shakespeare]

Dear All,
More extracts from speeches by President Ghadaffi.

NB.  As with all things human, what is important is the detail of how things work out in practice.

Rodney Shakespeare.







Leader's speech to the opening session of the General People's Congress
Addendum 18th
            If you are going to establish committees and companies that is your business. Nobody will control you. This has no relation to the revolutionary committees  and people's leaderships. It has nothing to do with control and does not need promotion or anything. It is left for you and you are free. 
 
The watchdogs say at the beginning of their report that the administrative bodies are inflated. This is the first problem. We have abandoned the watchdogs. Their role is over now. There is no more administrative body.  There is no  exaggeration. 
 
The report then says the general budget of the state depends to a large extent on oil revenues. Who will take care of the alternative. Is the state going to manage the alternative. No. You have to take care of the alternative. Those  projects undertaken by the state because it is the public sector are still being financed. 
 
The report says there is no system for internal monitoring of the administrative affairs in the Peoples Committees. Then what you have been complaining about is over and there is no system for monitoring peoples committees from outside or from within. These have failed and we consider them a failure.
 
The report also says the increase in dispensing of petty cash without the necessary  procedures is also over. We do not need to dispense petty cash. Some people used to spend a night in a hotel at the expense of the state. If they go on a mission on behalf of the state you can give him the money and you may agree with him to give him 100,000 or a million. But all this is at your expense. 
 
The report says some  authorities that finance the general budget delay the transfer of the monies due in line with the law of the budget.
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Leader's speech in the opening session of the General Peoples Congress
19h addendum
            These are the problems of the administrative bodies as mentioned in the watchdogs report. It also says that the public organs are not committed to closing down their accounts. If you do not close down your accounts then you are suspected and now we  do not need to hold you accountable.
 
The report also says that the lack of transferring the majority of payments following expenditure to the General People's Committee For Inspection And Monitoring means they spend but do not transfer: total lack of  the work programme for  production transfers and the absence of the training programmes. There is no training programme. There is no production transfer. There is a lack of attention and follow-up by the productive units owned by the state and a lack of control and supervision mechanisms.
 
If it is a state project then there is no control and you have ruled that it is a failure and there is no need for it.  It is totally inadequate. This is an attack against the companies for lack of control. The Mediterranean Company for Engineering Construction, the General Corporation for Construction, the General Corporation for Cables and  Electric Products, the Investment Company - all those have been attacked by the control and are deemed a failure.
 
If the public sector companies have failed why do you continue with it? The lack of  discipline in the school year, school books, the educational requirements and school laboratories, the curriculum and its development, the  Koranic schools and madrasas - all these are run by the state. But they have no relation and it is not possible to run them.  You yourselves must run the madrasas. They could be run by the scholars and anyone who wants to learn the Koran may do so. But is the state has failed it has to be relieved from such a mission. You take those Koranic schools and madrasas.
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Leader's speech in the opening session of the General Peoples Congresses
20th addendum
            The sector has delayed the training of cadres. They delayed the establishment of new educational units in densely populated areas. They failed and they cannot do anything. You take your money and teach your sons in any place you like, whether densely or thinly populated. There is a delay in delivering the computer labs. You can buy your own computer and give it to your son. This is your money and you have it in your pocket.
 
With regard to school activities. It is reasonable that the state is responsible for the printing mistakes or the type of paper or the binding or bad writing. What is this? The state has nothing to do with  bad writing and printing mistakes or the type of paper. You take your money and buy the books yourselves.
 
The lack of necessary controls and the lack of a system to preserve school books or returning them at the end of the school year from former students so that others use them. Could this be a mission for the state? These things have to be done by you yourselves. 
 
The unsuitability of classes in some schools, some are mobile or dilapidated. This is your petrol. You take it and do what you want. The state schools are a failure so take your money and set up schools yourselves.
 
The lack of sports grounds.  Are we to believe that the state is to be responsible for schools grounds in a country with an area of 2m sq kms which could all be playgrounds.
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Leader's speech in the opening session of the General Peoples Congresses
Addendum 21
            The phenomenon of deception and leaking of questions. The weakness of the examination control committees. I have told you there will be no examinations. If you want to examine yourselves, go ahead and your success is for your own.
 
 The lack of  psychiatrists and social workers in educational institutions. You have to look for the social workers on your own. 
 
 Lack of attention to hygiene cleanliness of most schools. Do you want the Secretary of the General Committee and the Secretary of the General Peoples Committee for Higher Education to sweep the toilets and clean the schools. Why didn't you sweep and clean your schools?
 
The delay in opening credits for companies and co-operatives. The weakness of monitoring organs. Suspension of maintenance works. There is an attack from all sides on these bodies then why do we keep them. Let them disappear.
 
Despite huge allocations for the transformation budget in recent years it did not contribute to finding alternatives  for oil revenues to finance the budget. You have brought the oil money and you said we want an alternative and there was no alternative.
 
Lack of annual reports by the administrations of the sector and  a shortage of employees and other elements with experience in most cases and the increase in spending petty cash.
 
The presence of projects under construction without financial documents or lack of original documents. A large number of projects stopped or suspended for not receiving payments.
 
The delay by the sector in finding  suitable sites for some contracted projects.
 
That means the failure of administration. I am just going through the remarks on various sectors and this is not a specific committee. This comments relate to various committees.
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Leader's speech in the opening session of the General Peoples Congresses
Addendum 22
            Regarding the National Center Vocational Training is failing to reach the goals for which it was established and the lack of solutions for the difficulties facing it. All this is to be abolished. 
 
The deterioration of the situation in the employment fund and the weakness of collecting  due payments on loans.
 
There are no more loans. Just take your money and do whatever you want with it.  Haven't you said that loans are made through intermediaries and favouritism. Some are given loans while others are denied. Those who receive loans do not pay them back. And the administration complains because the bank says you take a loan and do not repay it. All this is over. No more loans and the bank offering those loans is to be shut down because it used to take your money and give it to others who never repay. Now you take your money from the bank and you are not requested to return anything. If you like you can create your own bank.
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Leader's speech in the opening session of the General Peoples Congresses
Addendum 23
            Disregard for theatre and folkloric groups. Is it reasonable for the state  to do these things. Is it the responsibility of the state to create artistic groups  singing groups. 
 
That is okay. The administrative body has failed. We ask the General Peoples Committee why did it fail the singers and artists. This is a farce. You can go to any country in the world and see what is happening there. You go to the largest country which is considered the richest and is taken as an example: America. The American government has nothing to do with those things. It is not responsible for  any stadium or folkloric groups or the formation of a company. American has trillions at its disposal but  does not handle these matters.
 
We are asking you where the money came from. The money is with the people, with the American companies, with capitalism. The capitalist class pay taxes for the government and the government uses the tax money to buy aircraft from Lockheed and aircraft carriers and tanks to go to destroy Baghdad. It is the people who give the money to the government. The people have the wealth. America has petrol and could spend 20 million barrels or something around that. It imports 50 percent from abroad and 50 percent local production. The fifty percent of local production which is around 10 million barrels is not the ownership of the American government. They are owned by the companies which are capable of extracting and selling oil. They sell oil to the government and others.
 
The government buys petrol from the company and the American government pays money to receive petrol to operate the aircraft carriers and the tanks, the rockets and satellites - all from tax revenues. From where did the American government get the money to buy petrol from private companies. It got the money from the taxes paid by the Americans. Everyone is paying taxes to the government. In this way you own the petrol and you take the oil revenue.
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Leader's speech in the opening session of the General Peoples Congresses
Addendum 24
            There are some who are afraid and say is it possible that we give the money to the people? Yes we give it to them. This is their petrol and this is their money. We get it from the Libyan soil. 
 
You have heard this before. I proposed it in Sirte some years ago. I said this to you but you refused. This time the situation will not go on. Now the money will go back to you. This oil money remains with you. 
 
The oil money in your pockets may be used  in anyway you like and you can even donate for the administrations of utilities, security and defence. You may say take the money and do so and so. Take the money and buy an aeroplane or a tank. But now the state has all the petrol and deducts several millions in its interest which is eventually your interest and the remainder is given to you as a salary.
 
Why do we take salaries? Why do we take loan and never repay it. You better take it directly like this. All the fraud, the corruption and the trials you are talking about originate from the way we get money from oil revenues. But this is the manner. Now you take the petrol money directly and there is no place for corruption. We have people who stole the banks. They said this is our petrol. I found some people taking several salaries. There are 70,000 people taking more than one salary. Why? They said this is our petrol money. We need to educate our children abroad from our petrol. We need medical treatment abroad. This is our petrol. We need houses. This is our petrol. Some people go on haj at the expense of the state. Others get married at the expense of the state. All this is petrol money. Okay. That is so. You said what is right but this your money and you have to take it. You can use it to go to the  haj or study abroad or build homes. You are free.
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Leader's speech in the opening session of the General Peoples Congresses
Addendum 25
            The rise in administration employment. Ordinary employment is much more in relation to technical cadres. All this has to be abolished. Everyone has to manage his own affairs. 
 
There was spending on some work items but it was never carried out. This means that money was paid for a project and the project was not implemented. This means that the money has been stolen. All this re-affirms and supports this historic decision. 
 
The lack of  moderately priced transport. How do you judge a moderate price. What if the car you buy from Japan costs 20,000? Who will sell it to you  for 15,000? And who is responsible for the 5,000. Is it Al Baghdadi? Is it Muammar? Who is responsible for that? Now the petrol money is available to you and you pay it yourselves. The money you have can be used to buy and car and this is your own responsibility and there is no need for brokers or middle men.
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Leader's speech in the opening session of the General Peoples Congresses
Addendum 26
            The report on university libraries is characterised by reports of non availability. It says there is a disregard for the development of university libraries. Now you can buy the books on your own and everyone can buy a library for his children whether to place it in his home or in special universities. I have told you before that we have eighty hospitals and 40,000 medical staff. These are to take over the 80 hospitals and manage them.
 
The health secretariat is to be abolished and handed over to the people. This is property ownership. You will take it. Every five hundred medical staff may take over a hospital.
 
We have said four thousand schools with 400,000 teachers. They are to take over the four thousand schools freely and start teaching the million students. The families of those million students now have the oil money. Therefore all that is abolished. We abolish education. You take the money and teach your kids in the schools. The schools will remain and the hospitals will remain.
 
We have a quarter of a million students in higher education. We have nine thousand teachers in 12 universities. Those nine thousand teachers are to take over freely, 12 universities. They may receive a quarter of a million students and they negotiate with them. Every student has a family that takes petrol money so you manage your own affairs. We have 12 universities and the health institutions. You take it freely because it is your petrol money. Nobody is doing you a favour. This is your own money. You don't have to return it to the state.
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