In a normal government, this disconnect between rulers and ruled would be negotiated.
Investors have the prospect of a return to entice them, of up to 6.5% if targets are met.As for organisations like St Mungo's, they get upfront funding for a longer period than they would in a normal government contract.
"Oh, to be foreign minister in a normal government, with a floor majority, and an interesting, authoritative prime minister with a routine lead in all the polls and a 44% primary vote; to be foreign minister with five years in the job stretching ahead.
Pakistan's plummeting economy, the fragility of its democratic institutions, and the difficulties of the civilian administration in re-establishing normal government functions in cleared-up areas like Swat, need the attention of its western allies.
"The paper trail is not what you would find in a normal government-to-government debt situation," said an administration official.
There's an Earth 2 version of this current situation where Amazon actually didn't engage in a cynical inversion of normal government practices.
Now, a normal government official anywhere else in the world might blanche at such information.
In normal times, Government House, as the compound is known, is the seat of power in Thailand, a sort of Thai White House where the country's top officials carry out government policy.
This is not normal government policy.
IN NORMAL times a government sitting on $440 billion in foreign reserves would have few cares.
