Posted on 04/16/2016 6:27:15 AM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
At the top of Vladimir Putin’s annual call-in show on Thursday, the hours-long telethon during which Putin takes questions from ordinary Russians, Ekaterina Chernenko had a plea for the Russian president.
Speaking by video-call, the resident of the Siberian city Omsk asked if Putin could have the potholed roads in her town fixed, complaining that local officials were doing nothing.
In front of cameras broadcasting the exchange across Russia, Putin agreed with her, saying that the problem had gotten worse generally and noted that it needed to be solved.
Within hours, Omsk’s local authorities announced they had laid 4,000 square meters of new pavement in a single day and poured out 370 tons of asphalt. The city’s mayor appeared on TV to promise they were working night and day on it.
The frantic road-building in Omsk was just one of example of officials across Russia scurrying to fix local issues after they were presented to Putin during his call-in show and that the Russian leader had noted ominously he would be looking into. Criminal cases were opened, delayed wages paid, construction projects halted and launched, all just hours after people mentioned them to Putin on-air.
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Our “ship of state” is more much more rudderless. Our folly in Syria is based upon a fundamental misunderstanding of the effects of destroying established governments in the Middle East. Our diplomats and politicians seem incapable of seeing the end of the era of political ideology. We have entered a new era of religious and ethnic struggle, the breadth of which is unavoidable due to the competitive nature of international trade. Our exposure is increased due to liberal attitudes towards immigration and “diversity,”
I had a problem once with a brand new washing machine. Kept getting run around from the service dept for several weeks. Called the store manager. His only comment was “what color?”. The new one was delivered about 3 hours later......by the service manager.
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