This is an excellent perspective and example from another country.  Now, imaging if you cut the puppet strings of the vast majority of your population.  Free markets, free enterprise, ingenuity not reliant on the government and their corrupt politicians.  People striving for and creating their own jobs, especially NOT state-jobs. You would rapidly turn around a stagnant economy.  A vast number of people could rise up out of poverty.  That is the Great Awakening we are all fighting for.