The beast is starving

Posted on 05/31/2006 by Laurence Simon

Remember a day or so ago when Terrorist Chieftain Ismail Haniyeh said that the checks were in the mail?

PA Bagman Omar Abdel Razek says otherwise:

The Hamas-led Palestinian government does not have enough money to pay tens of thousands of employees, the finance minister said Wednesday, pulling back from a pledge to begin paying long-overdue salaries to all workers in the coming days.

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On Wednesday, however, Finance Minister Omar Abdel Razek said the government has raised enough money in tax revenues to pay just 40,000 workers.

He said only the lowest wage earners, those who earn up to 1,500 shekels ($333, or ?260) a month, would receive a one month salary. People earning more than that will have to wait, he said.

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“When we have enough money for the rest, we will pay. We don’t know when,” Abdel Razek said.

I suppose it’s no coincidence that this announcement comes just as the UN is ratcheting up their goals for the latest Adopt-a-Terrorist Begathon.

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2 Responses to The beast is starving

  1. Joel says:
    05/31/2006 at 5:38 pm

    1. what currency are the thugs paid in?
    2. what sort of “nation” of no more then 3 million people has 140,000 people on its payroll?

  2. Sabba Hillel says:
    06/01/2006 at 5:27 am

    A “nation” of thugs, thieves and murderers.

    Sabba Hillel

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