State handouts can be reliably financed only by controlling the economy’s productive sectors. But in the Arab world, as everywhere else, this leads to theft, corruption, uncompetitive monopolies, a stifling of enterprise, and, eventually and inevitably, to decline and decay. The toppled Tunisian and Egyptian regimes spent decades providing handouts while denying citizens economic freedom.
只有控制了经济的生产部门，才能有资金支持这种由国家出面发放救济的手段。 但跟世界各地一样，阿拉伯世界的这一举动导致了盗窃、腐败，毫无竞争力的垄断和企业僵化，最终使国家无法避免地滑向经济衰退和没落的深渊。被推翻的突尼斯和埃及政权都执行了多年的发放救济政策，却一直拒绝给予其公民经济自由。