Great schoolyard argument, Albert. Unfortunately, in real life, and when dicing with people’s futures, one expects clear cut rebuttals.

Don’t take it too hard, Joseph Attard. It requires a modicum of intelligence to understand. You just keep waving the Torca necktie, there’s a good bloke.

Take your pick.

The fires in hell are not yet hot enough, so old Scratch has temporarily forgoed that particular pleasure.

Scrooge is hanging on as long as he can to spite those who are drooling at the thought of laying their hands on his pot of gold.

You’re spouting crap. The number of operations, despite the financial crisis of these past 3-4 years, has been consistently increasing.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120209/local/Operations-at-Mater-Dei-exceeded-43-700-last-year.405934

Should you be bothered to do even some cursory research, you’d see that the quality and range of operations in improving too.

Problem is that the socialist mentality (“the state provides”) is very contagious – kulhadd irid jerda, u fl-ahhar l-istat jfalli…

The beauty of democracy is that a country gets the government it deserves.

If you’re going to vote for the next five years based on one party’s performance over the last five, then I’m afraid you deserve Labour.

In fact (because this obviously needs to be spelt out to you) you should vote depending which party you think will do better over the next five years (i.e. speculation). You’re allowed to use the past five as a guide of PN performance, but that tells you nothing about Labour.

In short, I will vote PN in the next election because I believe Labour do not have ability to run a country. As a result the economy will suffer. Unemployment will rise and national debt will rise.

The reasons I am certain of the above and that PN is the better choice is that:

1) any period of Labour government has been a disaster;

2) with Labour’s current list of candidates (the only real “blast from the past” if you insist on tired clichés), I have no reason to believe anything will be different;

3) Labour hasn’t discussed a single policy, and so as far as I’m concerned they have no policies – yet you can’t improvise when running a country;

4) Labour is, of course, led by an ex Super One reporter, who I remember very well doing that job just over eight years ago, until he became an MEP.

What about unemployment under Muscat?

Remember his admiration of Zapatero, Iceland’s banking sector (he even told us he was instrumental in building this up) and Cyprus – he’s backed the wrong horse on every occasion because he couldn’t see their problems coming.

Why would he do better as Malta’s PM? He could try to convince me otherwise, but he’d have to show me some policy first.

The greater lie here is that labour is ready to lead the country.

Ghaliex? Ghax terga tiehu t-trasport pubbliku f’idejn il-gvern? Tini raguni jekk joghgbok?

U jien nghidlek, ilni nistenna madwar 4 snin biex nara kif ser tnaqqas id-dawl u l-ilma. Issa nahseb li tista tizvelalna kif ser taghmel dan.

Ohra. Kif ser timla INTI il-jobs ta’ Smart City? Jew forsi trid tghidilna li minhabba li din kienet weghda tal-PN, ma jinteressakx li tkompli fuq din il-linja? M’ inhix nghidlek 5000 job, imma xi haga qrib il-500 tista tghidilna kif ser taghmel.

Dwar l-income tax. Tassew li Gonzi wieghed li ser inqqas l-income tax. Izda ftakar kif kienet l-ekonomija dinjija 4 snin ilu.

Jew ghalik tigi titmellah mil-hsara li tista ssir lil Malta, basta tnaqqas l-income tax?

Int tista skuzi titnejjek minn kollox ghax il-pensjoni ta’ Parlamentari Ewropej u wkoll deputat fil-parlament ma jmisilek hadd.

Imma l-haddiem, dak li, kif jghidu jaqlahha u jikolha, dak zgur li jippreferi li l-income tax tibqa kif inhi basta jkollu l-futur assigurat.

U min jista jassiguralu l-futur? Zgur li mhux ilmoviment tal-gimmicks.

Jekk kont Laburist tiehu TV tal-kulur, jekk le, jew tistenna jew thallas Lm 50 lil dawk il korrotti mghazula mir regim Laburista.

Ara vera ma jisthux dawn in-nies.