I never wrote about some thing political because i’m fed-up with the bull shit we all listen too each day, but one thing i want to add on the daily BS of political talk in Kuwait. is measuring everything we do, in politics and in other issues; what i mean is, if a guy comes and says ”I want to become a parliament member”, and he gets the money and talks to people, lie his ass off:p i meant lobby around etc…, but what we dont do is measure the outcome of his campaign or his political career. If he promised a certain law to lobby for and did nothing about it just to lure in voter, a small committee should be established to measure such issues and record the MP’s outcomes, creating a weighted ratio and on and on with other stuff he is doing or promised to do. So his voters can go to an unbiased entity monitoring this parliament member and show us how much he really did do. This is one example now use this with every single thing in Kuwait, the water and electricity crises, ads are being put in the street, money is spent on TV ads yes, then show us the numbers of the ministry of electricity if the usage went down accordingly with the ads and promotions. We as consumers would love to know, if we really made a difference. if i switched of the lights every time i left home! Instead of puttying halema boland to tell us to conserve energy, they should tell us how well we did. numbers is everything!!, Kuwait has to be managed by the numbers not by talk. From the numbers we can know where we are heading. Obesity rates are sky rocketing, what is the ministry of health doing about it, the marathon thing okay, whats the outcome from that, it should be measured in numbers and released for the public, how many people benefited from the marathon, how much coverage it created, its awareness scope etc….A new campaign called “isteathmer” (invest) is all over Kuwait now, so this should be measured too, are teenagers opening business are they taking risks, have they made any signed agreement with young Kuwaitis or the whole campaign again is for show and to promote the companies backing it up!!!?? No numbers or any for that matter came from the above examples, so how can we know where we stand? Maybe its thin ice maybe its not, we will never know the intensity of the problem unless we figure out, study the numbers! 

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