جلسة للوزراء "على توتر عالٍ" يليها افطار في قصر بعبدا

Bassil reasoning is flawed. Politicians pocket a percent of public contracts and Bassil was hoping from this deal to make a small fortune and build an entourage of loyalist and profiteers similar to Assad and Kadafi as Aoun is losing it. He is an economic ignoramus and does not understand that Lebanon’s electricity, transportation and environmental problems can all be solved by public-private partnerships (PPP) if Lebanon is a sovereign country with no arms outside government control and practicing regional neutrality. Transportation can be solved by elevated monorail from Tripoli to Tyr and toll roads financed by PPP. Electricity by building new plants via PPP, reactivating pipelines in Zahrani and Tripoli, and investing in distributive renewable energy and smart grid financed via carbon credit and PPP. Environment by ecotourism. All this is not possible because Hizbollah’s arms that insured Bassil’s cabinet post make PPP and long-term investments impossible due to security risk.

Why are we not letting the Private sector build power plants and rund them. The government has shown that it is incapable of running anything other than running it into the ground.