“Muscat has put another 4,400 people on the state payroll since he became prime minister, and a further 300 on the payroll at Air Malta. The tragic effect of this will be felt in around 2 years’ time.

If these people weren’t put on the public payroll, then we would be looking at record unemployment figures and not the other way round. Now what we are looking at instead is a rocketing public sector wage bill.

The Greek government had done the same thing, and to retain the votes of people they couldn’t employ they upped the minimum wage to €20,000 a year instead.

Will we soon see Muscat increasing the minimum wage, to create a new midilklas?

Very apt.

The so-called increase in jobs is fictitious and paid for by you and me.

That is exactly why the hofra is getting deeper.

This is nothing new though.

Blair and Brown did the same in the UK for thirteen whole years when two out of every three new jobs were paid for by the taxpayer.

An economy built on debt.

Until the once-great country was for all intents and purposes bankrupt and the Labour government got thrown out.

The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money. Thatcher.