Comments on: General Workers Union calls on government to introduce more measures to encourage ‘haxi’ https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/general-workers-union-calls-on-government-to-introduce-more-measures-to-encourage-haxi/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Wed, 19 Aug 2015 23:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kenneth Howard Haber https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/general-workers-union-calls-on-government-to-introduce-more-measures-to-encourage-haxi/#comment-3049976 Wed, 19 Aug 2015 23:49:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68067#comment-3049976 Fewer people will make for a better life on a tiny island.

This “more people is better” mantra is the slogan of big business and their unrealistic perpetual business growth to infinity model that they love so well.

]]> By: Kenneth Howard Haber https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/general-workers-union-calls-on-government-to-introduce-more-measures-to-encourage-haxi/#comment-3049975 Wed, 19 Aug 2015 23:41:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68067#comment-3049975 Other than the extreme poverty, it would be better for Malta and Gozo to go back to the 1880s population wise, as a population of around 140,000 would be ideal on the Maltese islands.

]]> By: Joe Fenech https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/general-workers-union-calls-on-government-to-introduce-more-measures-to-encourage-haxi/#comment-3049891 Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:09:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68067#comment-3049891 “Raise retirement age”? Lanqas joholmuha ghax kieku ara kemm jitilfu voti.

]]> By: Joe Fenech https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/general-workers-union-calls-on-government-to-introduce-more-measures-to-encourage-haxi/#comment-3049882 Tue, 18 Aug 2015 13:13:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68067#comment-3049882 “Rather about demographic weight – more inhabitants means greater political clout – and about the ratio of economically productive to pensioners. ”

How is he going to solve the latter? Is he expecting exponential growth to pay for pensions?

The man is off his rocker!

]]> By: Joe Fenech https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/general-workers-union-calls-on-government-to-introduce-more-measures-to-encourage-haxi/#comment-3049877 Tue, 18 Aug 2015 12:20:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68067#comment-3049877 In reply to Wilson.

This is so surreal and bonkers that I’m wondering whether he meant “economy growth”.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/general-workers-union-calls-on-government-to-introduce-more-measures-to-encourage-haxi/#comment-3049869 Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:08:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68067#comment-3049869 The possibilities are endless. A spoofer’s paradise.

]]> By: Joe Fenech https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/general-workers-union-calls-on-government-to-introduce-more-measures-to-encourage-haxi/#comment-3049867 Tue, 18 Aug 2015 10:49:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68067#comment-3049867 In reply to H.P. Baxxter.

Might as well re-introduce child labour so pay-roll expenses are lowered.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/general-workers-union-calls-on-government-to-introduce-more-measures-to-encourage-haxi/#comment-3049859 Tue, 18 Aug 2015 09:08:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68067#comment-3049859 I’d say they want cheap labour but no immigration, but they don’t know how to articulate that.

But the obsession with a declining population has been floating around Maltese intelligentsia for some years now. The Nationalist Party’s advisers were particularly fond of it. It would occasionally resurface at conferences and such. Perhaps someone should interview Gordon Cordina.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/general-workers-union-calls-on-government-to-introduce-more-measures-to-encourage-haxi/#comment-3049858 Tue, 18 Aug 2015 09:02:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68067#comment-3049858 On the contrary, it would horrify the prime minister. He strikes me as being appalled by the thought of sex with anybody at all, whatever the gender.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/general-workers-union-calls-on-government-to-introduce-more-measures-to-encourage-haxi/#comment-3049857 Tue, 18 Aug 2015 08:59:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68067#comment-3049857 He meant Norman Vella’s father – Karmenu Vella, a senior union man who fell out with the GWU.

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