Comments on: Now these are real problems, not ours

By: Harry Purdie

Harry Purdie — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:14:21 +0000

Steve, get your head above the barricades. There will soon be an announcement that Smart City is being put on hold, due to the current turmoil in the international financial situation. You heard it here first.

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:20:15 +0000

Steve: Some people have lost their jobs here because of falling demand elsewhere.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:19:25 +0000

How does it have an immediate impact? Are people losing their homes in Malta?

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:41:17 +0000

Steve: “Something half a world away” has had an immediate impact here.

By: Harry Purdie

Harry Purdie — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:10:07 +0000

Steve, the ‘something half a world away’ will soon make the local ‘stuff’ feel like a mild case of the sniffles.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:33:09 +0000

Granted. But in reality people care about stuff that affects them more than they do about something half a world away.

By: Lorna

Lorna — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:01:13 +0000

Indeed, my heart goes out to these victims of other people’s mistakes and greed.

By: Fanny

Fanny — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:58:41 +0000

Daphne as the french say ‘Ils se plaignent la bouche pleine’. Sorry can’t remember if there’s an english equivalent.

By: Harry Purdie

Harry Purdie — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:09:58 +0000

Hey Daphne. I hope beyond hope that your point registers locally. However, I fear that the intrepid marchers of last night would not understand, as they (didn’t see many skinny people) scurried home to their plates of pasta and warm beds. Are you the only one who puts some perspective and realism on what we are facing? The global economy is entering into a very deep ‘do do’ and all we can do is prance up and down Republic Street. Sad.