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    "id": 1247349,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I have seen some very good analysts on our TV stations saying that the first thing to do is to cut on expenditure completely. That we should stop all development projects. Those who have been to a class of economics like Hon. Babu Owino will tell you that you would be shooting yourselves right in the middle of your big toe if you were to do that. We will not be able to walk, as a country and as an economy. It is these development projects that spur economic growth in our country. When roads are being constructed in your constituencies, they create employment and people are therefore able to raise more taxes because they have disposable income. If we were to go that route, as I have seen some analysts on television encourage us to, and I say this because this afternoon, and I know we were here up to 9:00 p.m. yesterday, and many of us were not here… We have the Second Reading of the Budget and Appropriations Report. As we contribute, it is good we have that at the back of our minds that even analysts who seem knowledgeable on television, I must say that some are ignorantly knowledgeable. You just need to have attended a basic economics class to know that if you are to cut down on Government expenditure… Government is the single largest spender of resources and without disbursement of resources from Government, be it at the national level or at the county level, this economy will come to a standstill. Even as we consider this Budget and Appropriations Report, at the back of our minds, we must also know that what we will finance is what will be before us when the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning finally tables its report. Without much more on that matter, if you allow me to move to the second Statement, my usual Thursday Statement on the House Business Committee (HBC)…"
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