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    "content": "and move into a culture where you only ask the public to support you when you must and when it is absolutely and totally necessary. We have reached to a situation where legislators do not even respond to telephone calls because you fear picking up a phone; you think the person on the phone is looking for money and then the public complains that legislators do not pick phones. They do not pick phones because there is no value you are adding. It is just making the legislator poorer like a church mouse. In the church, there is nothing to eat, legislators these days are as poor as church mice, there is nothing to get from them; they have nothing. Therefore, I am proposing that there must be a good reason where an individual is allowed to raise funds. Finally, as a nation, we must move swiftly to that point where individuals need not to come begging for money especially for worthy causes such as students who have passed exams. It should be the Government’s responsibility to ensure that individuals who have passed examinations well in a school should automatically go to the school that has called them notwithstanding their social background. If the situation that exists today is the one that existed during our times, there are many Senators who would not have been here because they would never have been educated. We must make it mandatory that a child can never miss a school because of the fact that the father is poor or the family cannot afford it. We cannot depend on harambees to take that effect in society; that effect can only come from a situation where the Government takes responsibility and we ensure that those children go to school. Therefore, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is moving more towards social responsibility for those who are able as a nation. It was John Locke, the English writer, who said that the most able must provide the least requirements for the least able. This was the case then during his time, it is the case today and it will be the case tomorrow. But the amalgamation of that money so that it moves from the rich to the poor is not an exercise for a legislator; it is an exercise for the Government because they collect taxes from those who are wealthy and pass on services to those who are poor. That is why there is a Government. If we cannot do that, then there would be no purpose for a Government to exist. Therefore, since we have a Government – and I believe that the Jubilee Government is willing and able – then we must put into practice what we have promised the people. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I just want to finalize by saying that the many committees that---"
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