Europe is handling it by the foot and picking on its own feathers
This was on timesofmalta.com’s comments-board. Do you think Barney Camilleri wrote his comment in Maltese and then had Google translate it?
Barney Camilleri
Today, 22:05
Wake up Europe!
In my opinion you are handling the situation by the foot.
How long are we going to have on our shelves imported imitations the like cigarettes, shoes, clothes, toys, computers, drinks and more. These emerging markets are taking our jobs? and what about their contraband sent, when we are lucky and find some we confiscate the small per cent that we catch, and the ones that get away?
These countries who pay their works an average $10 a week yet plan to go to the moon and beyond in the next 20 years they not only are sucking their people but ruining the world.
And what is Europe doing other than picking on its own feathers?
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Truly inspirational. Martin Luther King sort of powerful inspirational speech.
We can forgive Barney for all the grammatical mistakes. Fine his parents for the ridiculous name.
Maybe his mother is Irish and his father is Maltese.
After Barney, we now expect a comment by Fred Flinstone.
Make that Baby-Bop.
U s-Sur Manuel Mallia jipprova jbellahilna li Mintoff helisna mill-faqar li l-middle class kien jinsab fih fl-imghoddi..
Tad-daqqiet ta’ harta.
People like Barney – apt name, reminds of the Flintstones’ Barney Rubble – just do not understand that there has been a shift in the economic, political, social, industrial axis to the East and Asia has become the fulcrum of the new world order.
He just does not get it that the BRIC countries are now laying down the law and our only hope to survive is to change; spicca iz-zmien meta machine-operators kienu jaghmlu il-jeansijiet u jithallsu bis-soldi.
Like many others who express themselves on timesofmalta.com, he does not understand that Malta’s niche lies in services and specialised industries requiring university and MCAST graduates, and not dangling the prospect of a dead-end job if they leave school at 16 as is the cornerstone of the PL’s educational policy.
Indeed, Sowerberry, the East has always been economically stronger than the West.
The entire Imperialiast project (Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, the Netherlands) was due to the fact that China has always exported products which the West wanted (silk, spices, etc) and the West had nothing to export back to China – and had to pay in gold. The American and African Empires were conceived mostly to pay China.
Think about it: China could have easily had its own empire in Africa (which it is now doing), given that China had gunpowder before Europe, had navies and a strong economy.
Indeed, on the Eurasian landmass, real power lies in the East.
You nearly lost me here but your use of “imperialist” has given me an inkling of your thread of thinking. I mentioned BRIC countries..
The Chinese emperors rightly thought that westerners were smelly barbarians that had nothing to offer to China.
One emperor was fond of clocks from Europe but that was about it as far as imported technology that they found interesting.
Indeed, the same thinking applies to India: Colombus was looking for India when he found America. The classic case of serendipity.
When you say it cannot get worse………
Clifford – it can and will get worse. Vote Labour, get Labour.
Politicians “sucking their people” gives a whole new meaning to being of service to the people. So that’s why house visits last 20 minutes each.
“They took are jobs!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=768h3Tz4Qik
Il-hmar jghajjar lil denbu.
At this level of debate no wonder you won’t even feel the crash landing.
At times I envy your blissful ignorance. But there’s nothing worse than a lazy, conditioned mind working on a brain that’s been set in concrete around the mid-70s and never upgraded.
Did he misspell his name? Was it Barmy by any chance?
I think you know as much as I do that people who write like this wouldn’t know how to write in Maltese either.