@ Baxxter.
In that case you would feel less poor than them but that does not make you rich.

Balls. Prosperity is relative. With more poor people around, I wouldn’t just feel richer, I would BE richer.

They weren’t fighting over food. They were fighting because when they ran inside to get out of the rain some of them took the opportunity to worm their way to the front of the queue. It’s not as if the supplies would have run out.

Dear Baxxter, it a matter of just being rich or not. Just to “Feel rich” won’t make you rich, perhaps it might just qualify you as a citizen of Cuckoo Land.

Seems that you too have noticed the mileage given on all the Labour media to that piece of The Times pseudo- journalism

Blessed are The Times, for their tall tales about the poor will gain the earthly kingdom for Joseph.

So this is 2012 and some people are poor. Big deal.

There will always be the rich and the poor, and everyone in between. Nothing to write home about. In fact I wish there were more poor people, because 1) I would feel richer and 2) it would lend some credibility to the “kuxjenza socjali” stories.

[Daphne – Nothing happened to him. He just stopped the blog.]

It is true that most of Turkey’s population is Muslim, but Turkey itself is secular.

The EU preserves the national identity of its member states in a number of ways, and I prefer to see Turkey’s membership as an opportunity rather than a threat.

Turkey has a huge market of around 80 million citizens. This will be a great opportunity for both Turkey and the other EU countries keeping in mind that business is continuously seeking new markets.

Furthermore Turkey’s thirst for EU accession will oblige it to improve its human rights performance and strengthen its democracy, and that can only be a good thing.

JPO is inconsistent. He goes on about the rights of the separated/divorced and of gay couples, but then is frightened of Muslims and discriminates against them. I think that his arguments are very much based on passion rather than logical reasoning as usual.

It is very sad when we come across persons who go so far as begrudging those few fellow Maltese for being entitled to a “few packets of biscuits and pasta”. Is it possible that we still have amongst us persons who have lost all their Christian teachings and whose hearts have become so hard?

I am glad that these are in the minority as can be witnessed by the generosity when we are asked to contribute for a good cause.

You ask “where are the parents”.

They are at work because they cannot make ends meet. Don’t you think they (mothers) would not prefer staying home with their children and seeing them grow, instead
of having to go out to work?

Who said that these people “will disappear once Joseph Muscat becomes prime minister”? Of course they won’t. They haven’t disappeared in the U.S.A, in England, France and every other country on earth.

The poor will be always amongst us and it is our duty to help them and not begrudge them the few packets of biscuits.

Shame on you.