Friday, January 27, 2017

Right turned washing doesn't clean filthy laundry..

2017, Friday, January the 27th.  While a Gambian young man drowns in Venice, under the watchful eyes of a, filming and photo making, group of  tourists, just as the "common people" try to shoot bloody and degrading social-media images as emergency services try save somebody’s life, the Dutch Minister of Justice/Police/Terrorism and Cover-ups, drowns in a lake of political muck.  No, despite the Dutch saying "After the calf drowned the well is filled and tamped", the sulfur smell is bubbling up from the clay and even the soaring wall around the source of all misery, financed by about 7 million of our tax money, does not always prevent the residues of toxic concoctions to precipitate on the red plush gouvernment chair.  Cement consisting of contaminated slipperiness, quicksand and hypocrisy, mixed in a right rotating cement mixer, may be sticky, but it doesn’t keep the bricks together.  Meanwhile, a Grandpa distributes the newspaper, as he used to do as a small boy to save up for a new bike, so at the end of the month there will be some food on the table and to pay for the private risk part of his health care bill. On the lonely hill the freezing cold is driven out by the rain and the used winter stock of firewood leafs a large void behind under the canopy.  While the schizophrenic Dijsselbloem, President of the Eurogroup and Minister of Finance of in the Low Lands, cannot decide whether he has to defend the policy of his Prime Minister, the owner of the well mentioned above, or the idea of his party leader who also has a split personality, like a washing machine switch making left or right turns, depending on his role as the current Minister of Social Affairs or as opposition leader of that small splinter party, that the former labour party became because of being a coalition partner in the gouvernment of big business.  Despite that the Portuguese Government proves that the current policy, against the tide of international heellicking, capital Church adhering, social security depleting, former students and loge-members, is paying off with an economic growth of 1.6 percent in the 4th quarter of 2016, incidentally the highest increase throughout the European Union, an unemployment rate of 10.8 percent, a record low since five years and brought the budget deficit to about 2.5%, down from 4.4% in 2015, Dijsselbloem continues to insist that the Portuguese should privatise more, should punish it’s citizens more and execute more reforms in the line of western capitalism. The poor man doesn’t get it at all and is just annoyed and sad that an alternative policy, to the European right-wing wind, prevents populistic characters like Wilders and Le pen to have a shot in preaching hate, racism and fear. It’s disappointing to for the capitalist fanatics in northern Europe to see and that one of the most attractive tourist destinations worldwide, is making it’s the payments to the EU as agreed. The only thing they can do is minimizing the amount of attention because voters in other member states of the EU could get the wrong ideas just before the Dutch, German and French elections. The optimism has not yet reached Casa Agradavel, in fact, the street on which it should arrive is only a narrow donkey carts path with holes and now, today, even deep puddles.  However, they are working on it, slowly, meter for meter .....

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