What do you mean, you’ll let us work?
This letter was carried in The Malta Independent on Sunday, yesterday.
Allowing us to work?
by Alfred Formosa
Every time I hear Joseph Muscat repeat ad nauseam his mantra “inħallukom taħdmu” (read “we’ll allow you to work” not “we’ll let you work”), I ask myself: what is he going on about? Of course the PL will allow us to work if elected to power.
If they do not allow us to work, (and I get the feeling that “allow” translates to “permit” or “tolerate”) the country’s finances will go into a tailspin. So please Dr Muscat, don’t do us any favours.
If you ever make it to Castille, we’re the ones who will be doing you a favour by investing our money, creating jobs, generating wealth and paying taxes.
And please stop going on about reducing bureaucracy. Bureaucracy does not breed corruption. Bureaucracy provides the checks and balances to stop opportunists from running riot like they did when your party was in power.
Corruption only happens when somebody wants something that legally he/she is not entitled to have. Honest people with bona fide projects, plans, requests, or needs, do not need to corrupt anybody to obtain what they want.
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Very interesting indeed! I have noticed the emphasis on the “inhallukom tahdmu” phrase, but have never delved deeper.
Good old Labour’s back.
The week kicked off with negative reactions from Lino Spiteri, Karm Farrugia, the UHM, Caritas and FORUM.
It also has issues with PBS, saying certain ‘producers’ shouldn’t have a say which of its poltical exponents are invited to their programmes.
Then there’s Joseph Muscat, Owen Bonnici, Chris Cardona and Louis Scicluna making contradictory statements.
Hooray.
It got worse today. Prof. Edward Scicluna told Robert Musumeci and Simone Cini on Super One that the living wage is still one of the projects for a Labour government and that it had not been discarded at all.
Do they have any idea how to set out clear policy for those in business who are risking their own money?
When asked for his comments about the confirmation of the recent Fitch credit rating, his answer was ‘We could do better because Joseph wants us to be the best in Europe’. Joseph and the Magic Wand.
He even said that our rating has been the same since 2007. Isn’t that a good thing and a credit to this administration, given the world’s financial crisis? But he wants us to do better, of course. We’re in for it if he is made Minister for Finance.
He also waffled when asked to be more specific re the ”insahhu li stipendji” promise.
Does anyone know what the multi-coloured bathroom mats hanging above their heads were in aid of? Are they advertising some sort of sale at JB STORES or what?
About the stipends, Musumeci asked if Labour would increase them.
Prof. Scicluna first said “Yes, we will increase them.” Then he quickly corrected that to “insahhuhom” and “making them sustainable.”
He also said that to make the stipends sustainable, they must not be a burden on the deficit.
Which to me means that if the budget is running a deficit, his government would cut the stipends and send the students to the banks.
As Aunt Hetty suggests, he was never asked to explain specifically the meaning of “insahhuhom.”
I think the idea IS to portray bathroom mats against a sky blue background, white fluffy clouds included.
Tipo ahna m’ghandniex x’nahbu….nonxru kollox barra.
Musumeci was late, stuck behind a bus, as usual.
Was he stuck behind a bus, or was he “ghadu imwahhal mal-magistrat” in one of the court cases?
“Inhallukom tahdmu”.
These two words, which Muscat has repeated ad nauseam, puts in a nutshell the despicable record of the PL in government.
Unless he reneges, unequivocally and unconditionally on his party’s past and denounces publicly its abhorrent behaviour and obnoxious policies during the seventies and eighties he is wasting his time.
Only morons will trust his party loaded with past sell-by date monsters once again.
How can he? Those responsible for the horrible and obnoxious policies of the past are the same ones penning the rowdmep of Labour’s future.
Fat chance.
The full and correct version, as told to me by a former colleague, goes like this (loose translation):
“we’ll allow you to work, if you allow us f**k you in the ass”
Silvio Parnis’s version:
“biex igawdi ta’ taht irid jahdem ta’ fuq”
https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/01/silvio-parnis-biex-igawdi-ta-taht-irid-jahdem-ta-fuq/
When will the people out there, who can really read what dear Joseph is saying, understand that the type of government he’s promising is nothing more than a socialist government built around a low standard of living and general subservience? We will allow you to work?
Even this evening they are still grumbling about the Piano project for City Gate. They think it’s a waste of money. They never see beyond their collective nose.
Just watch what will happen to Valletta when all the ongoing projects will be finished in a year or so. But Labour will surely give credit to an increase in tourists to Karmenu Vella.
There have been far greater wastes of money, with nothing to show for them at the end. How about Malta Drydocks?
Araw il-kummenti ta’ wiehed mic-cwiec Laburisti isejjah lilu innifsu gharef, dan wara il-visit ta’ Dr. Joey f’kumapnija ta’ iGaming il-bierah.
Araw biex irridu nahdmu. Imnalla kien gharef dan. Kieku kien injurant x’kien jghid mela.
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gharef
– Mon 01-Oct-2012, 19:24
Hallik mil gaming u erga iftah il fabriki tat tessuti sur muscat!!
Trid toqghod attent hafna b’dak li jghid Joseph Muscat, u aktar b’dak li ma jghidx.
Meta Joseph Muscat jghid li se jirranga l-kontijiet tad-dawl u l-ilma, qed jitkellem litteralment – se JIRRANGA l-kontijiet tad-dawl u l-ilma.
Ma tfissirx li se jrahhas u qatt ma naf li qal li ser irahhas. Tirranga il-kont (tibghat estimu aktar qrib ghal konsum tieghek u mhux m’ghola s-smewwiet, taghmel aktar smart meters, etc…) hija differenti hafna milli “trahhas il-kont”.
Il-possibilita li se jrahhas hija remota hafna meta tikkunsidra s-sitwazzjoni ekonomika dinjija attwali. U jekk irahhas, se jittiehdu minn taxxi ohra. U hija aktar facli li tirranga sistema ta’ dipartiment milli trahhas il-kont.
Eventwalment, meta se jitla’ fil-poter u jikkonfrontawh, se jkun b’wiccu minn quddiem biex jiddikjara li hu qatt ma gideb.
L-istess loghob bil-kliem ta’ AS u l-VAT u r-Referendum tal-EU.