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“The National Dialogue Between the Bear and the Goose”
The story goes that a man and his wife had a goose that made eggs of gold every day, and they foolishly assumed that it must have a large amount of gold in it, and in order to get all the gold, they killed it, so they discovered that the goose was no different from the others. They hope to become rich, and pay off their obligations, depriving themselves of the earnings that they get every day from white people… The myth is meant to belittle greed, greed, and stupidity.
A young man said: I have many friends in small and medium companies who suffer greatly at work. With my simple understanding, I know that the higher the interest on bank deposits, then why do we take the risk of operating the money if the return on depositing it is greater than operating it? Is the state’s goal to accumulate funds or does it want to push citizens to invest?
His colleague said: Is it one of the goals of the national dialogue to be frank and explain the contradiction between what the government calls for encouraging the private sector and the terrible pressure on the same sector, especially the small and medium?
I said: I know the seriousness of the state in its national dialogue, and I understand in light of a severe financial crisis its desire to collect the largest amount of money and taxes to finance the state budget and pay its debts.
In the framework of national frankness, and in confirmation of what you say, I have met in recent weeks many business owners who are crying out about unfair tax prosecutions for their companies over the past years and whose files were closed for decades, and the threat of the sword of tax evasion and imprisonment or the payment of taxes for the losses achieved that you do not recognize Interest.. Had it not been that I had absolute confidence in some of those who told me harsh details, I would not have mentioned that to you..
At the same time, exiting the market by declaring bankruptcy or repeating losses is almost impossible, because the state will pursue the investor mercilessly, even if his closure of the business results from real losses.
On the other hand, I have many evidences of companies’ dues to state-affiliated institutions that they do not pay, although financing loans from banks that financed these projects do not stop with interest accounts that eat the profits of the private sector and then extend to realizing losses on projects that would have been profitable had it not been for the state’s delay in paying its debts. To the contractors who finished their work and handed it over, and the outsourcing authorities acknowledged that..
It is something that is repeated, and I see it every day, that devours profits and casts companies into dark darkness. None of these investors is protected from the unjust state in these cases, although, on the other hand, the delay in paying the dues of the state that it assumes and then imposes, and that does not recognize the companies’ budgets, does not protect them. Rather, the investor puts him in the position of either paying unfairly, or circumventing, or succumbing to corruption that we all know exists as a result of the imbalance of power and the failure to apply justice in a timely manner.
And she added: The policies support the private sector, but the bureaucracy of application is applied to its neck, and the incentive not to invest is the truth.
My friend, journalist Ahmed Ibrahim, said in an article, as if he was sharing the dialogue with us through the words of one of the leading shoe makers in Egypt: “We work with the lowest amount of production that we can open the factory with, because there is no gain and we have to prefer in the market. The factory and put the money in the bank, and it will earn for me, but there are many people on my neck who I can’t dispense with, even if the bank will earn me more.” This is a word that every citizen who is jealous of his country must be annoyed with, because his words do not only apply to a successful and stable field like leather, but rather it is A major problem facing all industrial and agricultural producers. It is clear that the positive trends of the state are applied in the opposite way.
The young woman said: I see that the dialogue may be a unique opportunity to restore confidence between the productive people and the state, with the hope that the government’s statements are compatible with its applications.
I said: We have to know that neither you nor I know what the country is exposed to in terms of conspiracies and pressures, with the aim of creating unwanted and unhealthy chaos for a society trying to get out of its economic and social crises in light of a global crisis created by a European war in which we have no camel or camel, and it was preceded by a pandemic It was not of our making, but rather we were among its victims, and it was preceded by an Arab fall and winter, who called it the Arab Spring, and during all that, terrorism pursued us, slapped us and killed our youth, and a Salafist call that pulled us backwards civilized.
The young woman, a political science graduate, said: The truth is, we understand the political, social and economic pressure on Egypt as a result of all of this, but, Doctor, our crisis stems from the inside rather than the outside… it stems from the way we manage our resources and not from their lack, and in order for us to get out of our crises, we need an integrated vision based on a philosophy A university and not mutations that occur to the mind of a minister or prime minister. Whatever good intentions are, it is not sufficient to achieve success, integrity is not sufficient without competence, individual genius is not sufficient without collective institutional action, nor is development without sustainability.
I said: I am impressed with you, my daughter, add to your thoughts.
Her colleague said: I would like to remind you of your article about the half that you talked about in your new book, “Dialogues with Youth for a New Republic,” and the interlocutors discussed it with you on television programs, and you wrote about it in Al-Masry Al-Youm, and you said about it (and took out its papers and read):
Are we ready to make a choice?! And are we ready for a cultural, social and political decision that not only serves to enlighten minds and change the shape of the country’s future and suits the development of humanity, but rather is its creator? Or do we want half openness and half closedness…?! So let us decide in dialogue and act.
Do we want a strong private sector that creates job opportunities, or not? Are we a modern civil state or a reactionary religious state??. Everything that happens in front of me says that we in half want the private sector and stifle it, and we are not a religious state in its full sense, nor are we a civil state in its full sense. We allow laws that prevent discussion of what is human under the pretext that it is divine.
We call for citizenship and our actions contain absurd discrimination between citizens of different religions
The story goes that a man and his wife had a goose that made eggs of gold every day, and they foolishly assumed that it must have a large amount of gold in it, and in order to get all the gold, they killed it, so they discovered that the goose was no different from the others. They hope to become rich, and pay off their obligations, depriving themselves of the earnings that they get every day from white people… The myth is meant to belittle greed, greed, and stupidity.
A young man said: I have many friends in small and medium companies who suffer greatly at work. With my simple understanding, I know that the higher the interest on bank deposits, then why do we take the risk of operating the money if the return on depositing it is greater than operating it? Is the state’s goal to accumulate funds or does it want to push citizens to invest?
His colleague said: Is it one of the goals of the national dialogue to be frank and explain the contradiction between what the government calls for encouraging the private sector and the terrible pressure on the same sector, especially the small and medium?
I said: I know the seriousness of the state in its national dialogue, and I understand in light of a severe financial crisis its desire to collect the largest amount of money and taxes to finance the state budget and pay its debts.
In the framework of national frankness, and in confirmation of what you say, I have met in recent weeks many business owners who are crying out about unfair tax prosecutions for their companies over the past years and whose files were closed for decades, and the threat of the sword of tax evasion and imprisonment or the payment of taxes for the losses achieved that you do not recognize Interest.. Had it not been that I had absolute confidence in some of those who told me harsh details, I would not have mentioned that to you..
At the same time, exiting the market by declaring bankruptcy or repeating losses is almost impossible, because the state will pursue the investor mercilessly, even if his closure of the business results from real losses.
On the other hand, I have many evidences of companies’ dues to state-affiliated institutions that they do not pay, although financing loans from banks that financed these projects do not stop with interest accounts that eat the profits of the private sector and then extend to realizing losses on projects that would have been profitable had it not been for the state’s delay in paying its debts. To the contractors who finished their work and handed it over, and the outsourcing authorities acknowledged that..
It is something that is repeated, and I see it every day, that devours profits and casts companies into dark darkness. None of these investors is protected from the unjust state in these cases, although, on the other hand, the delay in paying the dues of the state that it assumes and then imposes, and that does not recognize the companies’ budgets, does not protect them. Rather, the investor puts him in the position of either paying unfairly, or circumventing, or succumbing to corruption that we all know exists as a result of the imbalance of power and the failure to apply justice in a timely manner.
And she added: The policies support the private sector, but the bureaucracy of application is applied to its neck, and the incentive not to invest is the truth.
My friend, journalist Ahmed Ibrahim, said in an article, as if he was sharing the dialogue with us through the words of one of the leading shoe makers in Egypt: “We work with the lowest amount of production that we can open the factory with, because there is no gain and we have to prefer in the market. The factory and put the money in the bank, and it will earn for me, but there are many people on my neck who I can’t dispense with, even if the bank will earn me more.” This is a word that every citizen who is jealous of his country must be annoyed with, because his words do not only apply to a successful and stable field like leather, but rather it is A major problem facing all industrial and agricultural producers. It is clear that the positive trends of the state are applied in the opposite way.
The young woman said: I see that the dialogue may be a unique opportunity to restore confidence between the productive people and the state, with the hope that the government’s statements are compatible with its applications.
I said: We have to know that neither you nor I know what the country is exposed to in terms of conspiracies and pressures, with the aim of creating unwanted and unhealthy chaos for a society trying to get out of its economic and social crises in light of a global crisis created by a European war in which we have no camel or camel, and it was preceded by a pandemic It was not of our making, but rather we were among its victims, and it was preceded by an Arab fall and winter, who called it the Arab Spring, and during all that, terrorism pursued us, slapped us and killed our youth, and a Salafist call that pulled us backwards civilized.
The young woman, a political science graduate, said: The truth is, we understand the political, social and economic pressure on Egypt as a result of all of this, but, Doctor, our crisis stems from the inside rather than the outside… it stems from the way we manage our resources and not from their lack, and in order for us to get out of our crises, we need an integrated vision based on a philosophy A university and not mutations that occur to the mind of a minister or prime minister. Whatever good intentions are, it is not sufficient to achieve success, integrity is not sufficient without competence, individual genius is not sufficient without collective institutional action, nor is development without sustainability.
I said: I am impressed with you, my daughter, add to your thoughts.
Her colleague said: I would like to remind you of your article about the half that you talked about in your new book, “Dialogues with Youth for a New Republic,” and the interlocutors discussed it with you on television programs, and you wrote about it in Al-Masry Al-Youm, and you said about it (and took out its papers and read):
Are we ready to make a choice?! And are we ready for a cultural, social and political decision that not only serves to enlighten minds and change the shape of the country’s future and suits the development of humanity, but rather is its creator? Or do we want half openness and half closedness…?! So let us decide in dialogue and act.
Do we want a strong private sector that creates job opportunities, or not? Are we a modern civil state or a reactionary religious state??. Everything that happens in front of me says that we in half want the private sector and stifle it, and we are not a religious state in its full sense, nor are we a civil state in its full sense. We allow laws that prevent discussion of what is human under the pretext that it is divine.
We call for citizenship and our actions contain absurd discrimination between citizens of different religions
