Comments on: I told you our only coping mechanism would be black humour

By: manum

manum — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 12:49:19 +0000

Forgive me but who is the posing toyboy?

By: Josette

Josette — Fri, 31 May 2013 20:42:51 +0000

In reply to Money Talks bs walks. He should take his wife off the state payroll. After all her predecessors didn't expect to be paid for being the PM's wife.

By: Josette

Josette — Fri, 31 May 2013 20:41:17 +0000

He forgot to mention the great savings made by putting the eternal flame on part time duty

By: GWU

GWU — Fri, 31 May 2013 18:40:50 +0000

I overheard two workers discussing their GWU shop steward/MLP activist/Anglu Farrugia’s cousin’s resignation from their toy-making workplace.

Inter alia this shop steward going by the name of Alessio(?) told his workmates that he got a government job.

These two workers agreed that he deserves that job, because he worked very hard for the Labour Party in the last election.

Taking a long-term employee out of a productive job to employ him in the public sector is a serious matter. I hope his vacant post is filled by two.

Well, what can I say? We deserve this government.

By: Rumplestiltskin

Rumplestiltskin — Fri, 31 May 2013 16:07:54 +0000

In reply to Min Jaf. I noted the 'kastell in aria' in the Disney advert. It was indeed a very apt accompaniment to the article.

By: Luigi

Luigi — Fri, 31 May 2013 14:06:01 +0000

In reply to Angus Black. Divide 3.7 by 100 and then deduct 0.006 and you get 0.031. Then multiply 0.031 by hundred and you get 3.1. But I guess it was 3.6.

By: observer

observer — Fri, 31 May 2013 13:22:33 +0000

In reply to ciccio. Precisely to buy some clothes with!

By: Angus Black

Angus Black — Fri, 31 May 2013 11:35:36 +0000

In reply to Tim Ripard.

“… I say that Malta’s waste, by its very size, is very small change compared to the vast, uncountable billions squandered by politicians in the large democracies”.

Wrong! ‘Small’ waste in small GNPs may very well be as serious as large waste in large GNPs. Everything is proportional.

The example you gave proves my point. With billions over budget in German projects, Germany still keeps its deficits within Maastricht’s limits, because of the size of its GNP.

By: Angus Black

Angus Black — Fri, 31 May 2013 11:26:34 +0000

In reply to Luigi. Luigi, 3.7% less .006% is NOT 3%. I figure that 3.7% less .006% = 3.694% almost unchanged from 3.7%. In fact it is .694% more than the maximum permitted by the Maastricht Treaty.

By: ciccio

ciccio — Fri, 31 May 2013 11:23:17 +0000

In reply to Joe Micallef.

I fully agree with Joe Micallef’s observation.

Joseph Muscat’s mantra during the last few years, and especially during the electoral campaign, has been economic growth.

What happened to this promise? Where is the economic growth he promised?

He needs to be pressed seriously about this by the Opposition.

Earlier this week on Bondi+, Edward Scicluna was trying, in vain, to convince us that the deficit will be reined in by controlling the spending. But he did not set out any ideas about increasing the rate of economic growth.

Instead, he claimed that the EU did not believe the economic growth rate projected by the PN government for this year, and seemed to have accepted the EU’s revised rate, which if I’m not wrong is about 1%.

This is not what we expect from the new government which should be brimming with ideas for economic growth.