The government are thinking people just don't want to work and so are cutting benefits to make people work, but they are doing nothing to create the jobs for people to be able to comeoff benefits and get back to work.
Analysts in Iran suggest this was Khamenei's way of sending a religious ultimatum to the people: Comeoff the streets, don't defy me and work out these problems through the legal system.
George Bush had an army of evangelicals working for him in 2004. and the question is, even if people will hold their nose and vote for John McCain - if there are conservatives, how many of them will come out and man the phone banks and actually work their tails off for him.
"I knew the ban would come to an end and I would come back and carry on where I left off, " he said, adding that he had continued to work on his skills during his time out of the game.
That should be our central goal as a country -- how we rebuild an economy where hard work pays off, responsibility is rewarded -- a nation where those values continue for generations to come.