Il-lejla qabel ghada.

Stop blaming envy. Who actually envies someone who drives an SLK, wears gold and goes on expensive trips abroad, whilst blabbing on Facebook about the country’s state of affairs and ‘dal-gvern qeridna’?

With all that he owns, he should be more relaxed and less worried, and should leave politics to the good politicians who know exactly what they are doing. He should not dabble with political discussions.

Not because he has no right to but because he is sending out dangerous messages to those who may be getting their priorities wrong, just as this guy has been doing at the expense of the tax payer.

I feel sorry.

These two comments posted in reply to mine show you exactly what I mean.

When something is wrong in and of itself, people don’t feel pity for the wrongdoer. Nor do they compare relatives’ performances in performing a similar or identical set of tasks.

We can only reasonably conclude that this Gerada person’s behaviour appears to be hypocritical. So what? Chuck the first stone,if you will.

This person’s retiring age is 61. He can retire at 61 but remain unemployed as assumed by the court – the compensation calculation is wrong.

Who appointed Justice Meli ?

I can only speak for myself, Reuben – rest assured that there is nothing about this man or his posessions which makes me envious.

Yours is the typical Maltese mentality. The fact that some choose not to brag about their possessions or do not feel the need to tell the whole world about them does not make them automatically very poor and envious.

Feeling jealous for a man who owns an expensive brand new Mercedes is both idiotic and childish. What I actually feel for the man is pity, Reuben.

People, especially in their forties and fifties, who post photos and comments revealing their personal lives on facebook for all the world to see, assuming that everyone thinks that they’re cool and hip, are utter idiots.

Those commenting here, including myself, are simply expressing our disgust because we feel that Silvio Meli’s decision to award this man with such a lump sum of money at the taxpayer’s expense is extremely unfair.

And even if it were not at the expense of the taxpayer it would still be unfair. You can bankrupt a private company with a decision like that.

I have relatives who have been nurses, full time, for thirty or forty years. They were never dismissed. They practised their profession with a lot of love and full dedication. Enough said.

The only thing we’re envious of here, is his solid brass neck.

You need to have one of those to moan and whine that the country is in bad shape and at the same time post large photos of an SLK that’s very expensive to maintain, a large garage that’s very expensive to buy, wear gold chains and travel with them all over the world, where the poverty situation is really desperate.

And you have to have one of those to then show up on Facebook to discuss the state of the country’s affairs and how great Labour is when you barely know how to write and yet you expect people to say “Wow, this man really knows what he’s saying here.”

Mario Gerada doesn’t know what poverty means, let alone knows what is going on in the country.

If he knew, he wouldn’t be flashing his money about but he’d be on Facebook, explaining to all and sundry, what is wrong in his life and not what’s so good about it – which by the way is all thanks to the current situation we all enjoy.

“U min ma hexiex, mhux biss ma mexiex – izda ukoll inhexa.”

Aren’t we gluttons for punishment?

One can improve on the current administration simply by voting for the better NP candidates, thus weeding out the ones that, ahem, underperformed.

Instead, there are hundreds of otherwise reasonable persons who will vote for the Labour Party (“Ghax Joey ma kulhadd jitkellem! Ghax taf kemm hu biezel / dhuli !”) despite the glaring, screaming evidence that the majority of labour supporters want to live off the state – and their politicians are all too willing to please them. A sure recipe for disaster within a few years.

‘What’s he ashamed of now?’

Probably his contradictions: ‘li dal-gvern qeridna’, and at the same time, he shows off his SLK, photos of his trips to Vegas, Mexico, cruises, large garage, gold chains, and the free time his has, to boast about all this on Facebook.

This man must have a lot of time on his hands, to waste time and money (people should make good use of the internet money they’re paying) uploading photos on Facebook and constantly updating an active page on a public site.

Some people are paid to do just that for others, but this man seems to have the energy and the time to do all this for himself and for nothing.