The world’s gone mad. Well, not “the world” per se, as I’m focusing on this little outlandish deathwish-driven country we happen to love so much. There’s a thin line between love and hate and, believe me, we do hate this country with all the love. We smother it with love. We love it so much that we might even break it. In fact, it is already broken, but we love it so much that we can’t fix it anymore….
Deans are outraged. Apparently, budgeting will require the use of real income instead of wishful thinking income that never materialized.
Vox populi says that this is how fascism starts. Yes, of course it is, chaps.
We’re having local elections. You wouldn’t know it, but these are extremely important as they serve the purpose of deciding who’ll burn money on a slighltly more manageable scale. The thing is, no one knows who the candidates are in certain constituencies. You see, there’s a stupid law written in order to make understanding implausible (as you may have guessed, it’s perfect and suits the country just fine). No one knows for sure if Filipe Menezes, the candidate most…
Our Constitutional Court (we have one of those) will have to decide if we can or cannot dismiss unneeded civil servants. It seems that paying people, with all the extra benefits attached to public service, is more important than finding the money to actually pay them.
Very hard to understand but not difficult to grasp: we’re willing to default and stop paying them but we’re not willing to stop paying them now, unless we default, which we don’t want to,…
The government is considering the introduction of school vouchers. Of course, every professional activist using words such as “solidarity” and “welfare” strongly opposes such a thing.
You see, if people are given the chance to choose the school in which to enroll their children, they may actually learn that socialism is another word for bureaucratic vampirism.
Let’s keep things under control and spend the money hiring more teachers than needed. They’ll never admit it, though: 78 teachers per student are better…
Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, Portuguese communist and author (aren’t they all authors?) died.
Perhaps in 2100 one will be able to write “Portuguese author, free man and self-thinker died”. Until then, we must settle with the communist ones perishing without witnessing the blooming of the New Man.
May he rest in peace.
So, the professor is replaced by the brewer. One more step towards bigger cronyism?
Álvaro Santos Pereira was replaced as the minister for economic affairs. Actually, the former minister gathered no sympathy from industry sharks (this is a good thing), the always-ready to cling to whoever generates more distortions to a market dominated by state interference.
The new minister will be as successful as the former if he can avoid the white elephant industry so favored by Portuguese Keynesians. The high-speed…
Scumbags who despise the Constitution, beware. If my rights to health, education, pension, work and housing are worthless, then their rights to private property, profit, physical integrity and morals come to a halt. We outnumber them!
Miguel Tiago – Portuguese MP
Forget the media. Forget opinion-makers. Forget the 50 lunatics that earn a spot in the news with their “anti-government” and “anti-austerity” demonstrations.
Lots of folks, unwilling to accept that austerity isn’t a policy (it’s only lack of money, isn’t it?), believe that Mr. Portas got the upper hand from this government deal.
They’re wrong. Boy, they’re so wrong. Mr. Portas’ vanity got him the failure associated with the title, releasing the PM Passos Coelho from actually failing what everybody reckons as the inability to further cut state expenses.
If we’re talking politics here, Mr. Passos Coelho delivered the perfect checkmate.