Malaise Maltais

Malaise Maltais

Here we are, we were listening to the boring Budget 2009 speech, which
left use very much wondering. We got to know that our public finances
went very well over board, not our fault really, just wrong timing and
unexpected events. We did not expect the rise of the price of oil, we
forgot about the end of the year deadline for the shipyards, that the
time of pump millions in subsidies is ending. All these little things
out of our own little control just screwed up our budget. Well, next
year, we will do it better. We are positive, our GDP is going to grow
again, over 2%, to hell with what the world bank or the E.U. predicts,
we live happily on our own little ruined and polluted island, braving
fiercely the international storms, armed with our old survival history
and resistance. We are builders, we turn every little place into a
construction site, we are like sims, we build everywhere, we dig, we
extract, we are happy folks. We believe in what we do, stone by stone.
Enriched with the eur 4 COLA rise, we will ride with our de-taxed
bicycles to our working place, maybe just for four working days a week,
thinking about how to cover the re-payment of our loans...think
positive, we will survive thanks to the increased taxes we are going to
pay: the road taxes, energy surcharges, plastic bags, light bulb
taxes,... will all contribute to our public transport, we will be given
free flying carpets just to cruise from one place to another, without
any bad conscience. We live in a complete absurdity, measures being
imposed to the majority by an illegitimate government through an
artificially created majority in Parliament. Yes sirs, you do not
represent the majority of the Maltese votes, you were short by a few
thousands votes, that does not give you any rights on us to decide on
policies we disagree on...Declare yourself incompetent and pave the road
to new elections, there is no shame in it, absolutely not, you will than
always be remembered as brave and honest ...

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