Ahmadinejad-TV Address
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continued his report referring to the existence of lots of problems in our national economy, blocking the path for proper and sustainable planning both for the system and for the nation.

He said, "The existence of such problems and obstacles leads to waste of national assets and increase in spending in various economic sectors."
The president considered wasting the national resources and extravagance as two major problems with our economy arguing, "Currently the greatest waste is in consuming energy in our country, while the wasted time and other resources too, are huge, and we can for instance particularly refer to the waste of different types of energy, fuel, bread, electricity and time."
Ahmadinejad said that extravagance is another problem in various parts of our economy, adding, "Unfortunately extravagance takes place at large scale in many sections of our national economy, while our culture emphatically advises us to avoid it."
He said, "For instance, we use excessive amounts of water in our agricultural sector, and while irrigation of one hectare of land is possible using one to two thousand liters of water, even if we were not suffering from draught, the current water usage is much higher and extravagance has unfortunately become habitual in that sector." He said that the other problem is the deepening gap between the rich and poor social classes, arguing, "lowering this gap was one of the ideals of our revolution, and of course we are not opposed to living in abundance of a social group, but what bothers us is that a large group is our society is deprived."
President Ahmadinejad pointed out, "Lots of work has been done in this respect and the gap has been lowered to some extent, but if the general status of our economy would not be properly altered, this gap would not be eliminated," adding, "This gap takes roots from great differences in consumption and incomes."
He said, "The gap is still too deep, and since we are all members of the same family it is not right for some members to consume several times more than the consummation of the other members."