Comments on: More Mintoffian economics: tal-biza

By: Harry Purdie

Harry Purdie — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:48:12 +0000

In reply to P Shaw. I hear that Scicluna received his PhD from the University of Toronto. Since I also attended that fine institution, I am ashamed that this kind of thinking could be associated with my alma mater.

By: elephant

elephant — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:51:52 +0000

I am convinced that if elected to run the country (down the hill) then all they need (I mean the Labour supporters) is a valid PL membership card and a job is immediately on line – for get Edward Scicluna – we have been through this already – but I think people easily forget when it itakes some time to replace the electricity bulb outside thwir house

By: elephant

elephant — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:44:53 +0000

In reply to Paul Borg. People forget - so please, remind us of Dec 81

By: Jozef

Jozef — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 02:23:49 +0000

In reply to David Meilak. It's what happened in Italy when measures to 'enhance flexibility' were introduced. A nightmare scenario with over 20 different types of contract resulting in underpaid graduates and their parents unemployed, one incredible mess.

By: elephant

elephant — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:59:41 +0000

As said somewhere else – they do not NEED either planning or roadmaps. All they care about is getting to Castille.b And I think with the present intellectual capacity of the Maltese, the PL MIGHT even do it.

By: P Shaw

P Shaw — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:35:10 +0000

One has to add that the Labour Party, in particular Edward Scicluna, have been targeting education costs for a while in order to finance the short term benefits such as the VAT refund on cars and the the subsidies on water waste. Edward Scicluna repeated the proposal to cut expenditure on education (infrastructure, stipends, and expansion of the sector) repeatedly, both in public, but also in closed meetings with foreign rating agencies.

They simply see expenditure on education as a waste, since the benefits are not instantly visible or tangible within a five-year period. Plus, deep down, they know that a high degree of educated population decreases the chances of a Labour being elected.

They are ready to forgo the long-term benefit of the country (and consequently the economy) to finance short-term and greedy cash benefits with no or little return to the economy as a whole.

By: La Redoute

La Redoute — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:33:33 +0000

This man has a seat in the European Parliament. Do his fellow MEPs – not just the Maltese ones – know that he’s promoting discrimination and violation of the law?

By: Gahan

Gahan — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 07:01:28 +0000

Trid tisma’ u tara biex temmen; mela il-profs qed jghid li jkun hemm zewg pagi minimi u milli stajt nifhem ,iz-zghazagh ikollom paga minima inqas mill-kbar.

Jekk wiehed bla skola ikun irid impjieg u ma jkunx zaghzugh m’ghandu l-ebda cans li jsib impjieg; ghax min se jippreferi ‘cleaner’ imdahhal fiz-zmien b’paga iktar (u bil-kuntratti ta’ sena), min wiehed zghazugh, jew refugjat b’paga inqas?

Biex inkunu ghidna kollox ,din il-mizura taghti lok ghal-iktar abbuz milli hawn bhalissa, ghax il-kumpaniji jibdew jimpjegaw liz-zghar bl-inqas paga minima u ftit qabel ma jkunu se jigu intitulati ghal-paga minima tal-kbar jitkeccew u jiddahhlu zghazagh ohra minn flokom.

Kif se jzomm liz-zghazagh tal-pajjizi tal-eks blokk komunista u li huma membri tal Unjoni Ewropeja milli jigu jahdmu Malta ghal-paga li ghalihom hi tajba? Kif se jnaqqas studenti Ewropej fis-sajf milli jigu Malta biex jiehdu l-gobbijiet taz-zghazagh Maltin?

F’kelma wahda jekk jitla’ l-Labour immorru minn got-tagen ghal gon-nar. Mal-Labour il-haddiem se jitjassar.

Il-Profs Scicluna lanqas ghandu hjiel ta’ x’ghandu bzonn l-“under dog” li qal li tant ihobb.

Labour won’t work …u bil-provi.

By: sasha

sasha — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 23:35:07 +0000

No, they aren’t proposing a wage freeze, but it is actually worse than that becasue they are creating a distinctive lower platform minimum wage.

By: Claude Sciberras

Claude Sciberras — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 23:00:25 +0000

Daphne, to my knowledge employers are already allowed to give younger workers a minimum wage which is lower than the one for Adults. I think the cut off age is 18 and then there is a minimum wage for 17 year olds and one for younger workers. So if they are proposing this as a means to employ more young workers then they are a few years late in their thinking… I would assume this was not something that was recently enacted but is probably something created ages ago.