With internet, email, gmail, you name it, we’ve got it, who on earth cares about bringing the postal services to what they were in the past?

I rarely, but rarely buy stamps to post letters unless the relatives abroad, switched off their internet completely and can’t receive my messages. Otherwise correspondence and payment of bills is just one click of a button away.

These sort of people just really don’t think.

Or free vitamin C, or free aqueoues cream and the list goes on with items worth less than 2 Euros.

The amount of tax money that is wasted in supplying these ridiculously cheap medications is mind-boggling.

Yet the mentality of the Mintoffjani precludes any government from addressing the issue. This is because these people have this strange ‘DAWK TIEGHI’ mentality, which is the exact same mentality that makes one ask for nationalisation.

I remember one particular patient who would walk from one side of the village to the other to pick up her free Vitamin C tablets and who, on hearing that these were out of stock, would walk all the way to the polyclinic and Mater Dei to attempt to find if any were available.

Then there was the gentleman who asked me ‘Dawn x’ittini ghalijhom?’ after I had just handed him his bulging bag of drugs. When I replied ‘Nothing, I will just put them back in stock if you are not using them’ he proceeded to open the bottles, pour them into the dustbin next to the door while saying ‘Mela ma intihomx lil dak il-**** Gonzi b’xejn’.

Finally I remember one other gentleman, who had been away on holiday for three months, who with bile rising and froth speckling from his mouth, came shouting at me because I had not given him his medication for the three months he had been away.

When I pointed out that you can’t have medication retroactivly, because let’s face it none of us can time travel and taking 3 months worth of medication in one sitting is not recemmended, his reply (high pitched and reaching a crescendo) was – DAWK TIEGHI!

Admittedly, but Mr John F.Galea (who may not be unknown to some) has deemed it right to comment only yesterday night – two days and a little bit before the coming into force of the increases. Why?

http://gozonews.com/37005/maltapost-announces-increase-of-postage-tariffs-from-april/

http://www.inewsmalta.com/dart/20130329-is-segretarju-parlamentari-bonnici-jfittex-miljun

Il-gvern Nazzjonalista iggarantixxa sistema efficjenti meta halla il kumpanniji jimxu bir regoli taghhom. Issa dawn stenbhu f’ daqqa wahda u sabu ruhhom min ghalijhom li jistghu jergghu jibdew bid-diska l-antika.

Ser nergghu nibdew naraw il-murtali mid-dehra, ahjar tahznu il-krips u Twistess ghax meta ic-cintorin ta’ Joseph jibda jinghafas u nibdew naraw l-unemployment metre jishon, ma tantx ser jidku is-switchers, u il-property negotiators li ghandhom flettijiet fil-pjazza ta’ San Gwann il-Belt.

Just look at the commentary boards when MIA , HSBC, GO,and BOV issue their statements of accounts, they first assume that the management of these companies remains motivated to make a profit and that the manpower in these entities would remain lean.

These people are not risk takers , they prefer hoarding their money in some savings account(if they’re able to save any) and expect that the profits of these ex-parastatal entities should end on their lap simply because they’re Maltese (armchair) citizens.
They never realise that Palumbo for example work hard to get orders, or that GO and Middle Sea Insurance shareholders had a very rough ride seeing their shares plummeting for years on end.

We would have seen more new chairmanships and political appointees in these entities after the elections. I recall Mid Med (HSBC now) had Dr Reno Borg and Bank of Valletta had Danny Cremona while Malta Drydocks had Sammy Meilaq.

BTW; these same people expected Gonzi to earn something around Lm18,000 a year (pro bono) for a 24/7 job running a whole country with a €2.2Bn budget, while they don’t blink an eye if someone gets €24k for three mornings a week part time job which should be done by our parliamentarians.

These people think that “The Government” is the solution to all of life’s problems.