How liberal and progressive that was – embedded backwoods misogyny
Muscat just explained ‘hedging’ to all the stupid people on the Opposition benches. It’s like insurance, he said. Of course we have to hedge. Just imagine a young woman who goes to her father and says, “Pa, this year I didn’t crash, so let’s not pay the car insurance.” And he says to his daughter, “Le, ma tarax. Imagine something happens. The insurance has to pay.”
In Muscat’s world, girls crash.
In Muscat’s world, parents pay their daughters’ car insurance.
Scratch that. In Muscat’s world, FATHERS pay their daughters’ car insurance, because they’re the ones with the money.
In Muscat’s world, when daughters want to talk about car insurance, they consult their father, not their mother.
In Muscat’s world, women who are old enough to drive a car and vote have their car insurance decisions taken by their father.
You can really tell where he’s coming from.
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No wonder he likes Cyrus more than Gaby.
Thought so too.
In my world, dads often get advice on insurance, health, cars, planning projects and clothes from their daughters, Mr PM.
BTW, Mr Prime minister, I am at least 20 years older than you as well.
In my world my son and daughter saved up, bought their own used car (when they were just starting out), arranged and paid for their insurance from money they saved doing part-time work while they financed their studies.
Never collected one euro cent from any stipends from any government.
Joey thinks girls crash because that’s all he got – two girls, they will never have to work part-time because they don’t need to since they are mittle kless and important, and daddy will pay for their insurance because he can bloody well afford it, PM or not.
And I am 30 years older than the clown.
More importantly, it is not an insurance at all.
It’s more like a gambling in a casino – you may win and you may lose – millions of taxpayers’ money of course. Nothing to do with insurance.
That’s what Austin Gatt used to say and Labour ridiculed him.
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Not the last one who commented above!
Certainly not Nickie Vella de Fremaux, she’s definitely taking the mickey out of him.
In Muscat’s world, women cannot even understand the basic concept of how insurance works.
No wonder his wife applies herself to hosting high teas; she is a woman in the PM’s household after all. Anything more taxing on her intelligence might require her to run to consult with her husband.
I still remember that first meeting I had with Muscat when I tried to make him understand what insurance was all about. He never got it then, and clearly, 10 years down the line he still has not got it.
Was the PM allowed to say what he just did regarding the court proceedings instituted by the transport operator?
[Daphne – I missed that; I’m tuning him out in parts. When his accent goes to the dogs and he begins howling, I switch off mentally.]
He said that there is someone in Malta with an interest in lengthening the process, and this is the company from whom the government is currently renting the buses. His first sentence actually was “hawn min qed jipprova jfixkel.”
Of course he shouldn’t have said something like that. He has no standards.
He is allowed to say anything he wants in Parliament because of parliamentary immunity, but you are right, morally he was out of bounds accusing the company the government is renting the buses from, of “making extra money for as long as the case takes to go through the court process”, or words to that effect.
If he repeats what he said outside Parliament he may face a libel suit as that amounts to a serious accusation. It was another demonstration of how crass and unethical he can be. Certainly not prime ministerial material.
[Daphne – Libel is not the reason he shouldn’t have said it. He shouldn’t have said it because prime ministers do not speak that way.]
If you scour the newspapers, I think you will find that he has already said something similar outside of parliament.
Nice sense of humour he has !
Stop patronizing women, Mr PM.
Muscat is wrong. Hedging is not like an insurance. An insurance puts you back in a situation you were before an accident.
Hedging does not do that. Hedging is effectively about agreeing on a price in advance. If actual price turns out to be different, you pay the price agreed irrespective of actual price.
Did he say he is an expert in economics?
He’s supposed to have a PhD in something or other, but the more I hear him speak, the more convinced I am that there was something fishy there too.
Does this sound like an extract from Muscat’s speech in Parliament tonight?
“In the manner of philosophy, which, in the words of Hegel, like the owl of Minerva takes flight at dusk, at the end of a civilisation’s highest moment, this study begins with an investigation of a phenomenon that emerges, globally and historically, at the end of Fordist epoch of capitalism, or, at least, at a time of Fordism in crisis.”
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/03/heres-a-bit-from-joseph-muscats-doctoral-thesis-in-the-distinctive-style-of-mario-vella/
He must have got the PhD from eBay and had Harrods frame it for him. He does not have a PhD in Economics but at least a Masters in fakery, illusion and salesmanship.
I was told that he did the PhD course by correspondence so you know someone else might have prepared the replies to questions as well as the final thesis.
My thoughts exactly. This is basic ‘O’ level economics. It seems he even failed to learn anything about hedging when he was working with Crystal Finance.
In my humble mind, hedging is all a risk. Has nothing to do with insurance.
Hedging is a gamble, whereas insurance is peace of mind.
But who am I to contradict the emperor?
an intelligent person
As far as I know hedging is like buying futures on the stock exchange. The idea is alien to Malta but it is the rule in the USA especially when it comes to wheat, corn and similar.
The imbecile does not have a clue what hedging is all about.
Insurance his arse.
He should concentrate on haj tease.
I’m sure that Joseph Muscat knew that he was lying when he said hedging is similar to insurance.
You may very well be right.
He can’t be so stupid.
Erm, can someone tell Muscat that a motor policy is obligatory whilst hedging is not.
Ohh, but he really is !
The problem is that the majority of Maltese have the same mentality and therefore empathise and eventually vote for him: ghax dak bhalna.