of course there is a downside for the "nanny state" model. Citizens seemed surfeit with the abundance of welfare, not caring to question the absence of "an elected parliament that exercises its oversight role and counters any suspicion of abuse of influence or conflict of interests, giving the Audit Bureau financial and administrative independence for a government body and extending its mandate to include every sector or institution funded by public money, without exception, and re-examining the law on associations to realize the role of civil society organizations, not to mention breathing life into media and press bodies by pumping freedom into them" As dr Hassan Al Sayed highlighted in his recent article "Ministers’ public and personal interests" published last week in the peninsula.
Instead public demand over local media & internet forums is limited to Government paying off their debts!