Comments on: Collective psychosis – what a terrible thing it is when people begin to believe their own lies, and the psychosis spreads

By: John Zammit

John Zammit — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 11:24:02 +0000

Yes, Daphne, I agree with you, but come on there are quite a few of us who don’t agree or believe what Dear Joseph says.

Yes there are quite a few who actually prefer to believe lies, but there are many more silent content people who are not bothering really and are sticking to their daily routine instead of listening to Labour.

Who cares what they say, when all the time we know that their words mean nothing but plain deceit?

It’s the new voters on Facebook who worry me.

By: Gahan

Gahan — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:07:26 +0000

Collective psychosis : “Twenty five years of GonziPN is enough!”

I even hear this ‘twenty five year’ mantra by PN speakers who should recall Sant’s “years of lead”.

By: V.Vella

V.Vella — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:55:07 +0000

In reply to M Falzon. Ha, mine reads -274 euros! You're still a long way off:)

By: Natalie

Natalie — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:29:48 +0000

In reply to Natalie.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121129/budget-2013/arguments-fly-as-scicluna-says-budget-raises-the-tax-burden.447327

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:00:20 +0000

In reply to observer.

Closer to our times, Paul Valéry once said: “Ce qui est simple est faux, ce qui est compliqué est inutilisable.”

Anything simple is false, anything complicated is unusable.

Which just about sums up Joseph Muscat’s future budget.

By: observer

observer — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:04:57 +0000

A Roman writer once said “video bona, proboque, deteriora sequor”. Roughly translated that means “while I applaud what is good, I tend to follow what is not”.

Labour is intent on shooting down the budget, but will implement it because it is good. How’s that for logic.

By: ciccio

ciccio — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:44:47 +0000

In reply to M Falzon. In your case, Joseph Muscat is likely to INCREASE your bill. In order to finance waste and excesses, Muscat will have to increase the bills of diligent consumers like yourself.

By: M Falzon

M Falzon — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:40:55 +0000

I just received my electrical bill and proud to say that it amounts to 0eu therefore I don’t need MLP’s promise to reduce my bill. Now apart from the utility bills, what is MLP promising? Ah yes, instability.

Thanks, but no thanks.

By: ciccio

ciccio — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:29:08 +0000

In reply to Natalie. If Edward Scicluna is stating that although the tax rate is going to decrease, the Maltese people will still pay more tax than ever, then he is admitting that there is economic growth.

By: Jozef

Jozef — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:22:46 +0000

In reply to La Redoute.

Because when Joseph cheats his way to leadership of the party why change tack?

He was notable by his absence yesterday, as was live coverage of the speech on ONE, a precedent, that. They’ve hijacked the budget for their own aims and interpretation. Shameful how they treat their viewers.

Karmenu Vella’s final comment on TVM yesterday was whether this budget is feasible or propaganda, must feel hard done by poor thing, forced to adopt GonziPN’s proposals and scrap four years of diligent work.

Let’s see Joseph’s ‘gvern immexxi minni’ speech 2012. There’s already growing malcontent to the 25% tax rate in Labour’s orthodoxy, preceeded by the gratuitious, albeit mumbled, disclaimers of course.

Joseph chose to gamble his party, and the impression made by his lot yesterday is that no one’s allowed to speak before he makes up his mind where to go.

A mess, if there ever was one.

Which measures, according to him, are positive? Talk about uncertainty.