Massive Freudian slip: Muscat reveals that he thinks it’s all about “raking in the money”

Dammit. I can’t spend all my time doing things which rake in the money. Sometimes I have to do other things.

The prime minister visited the offices of the newspaper Malta Today (the Opposition leader visited some days ago).

“The government’s machinery is relatively small and its structures are set up to deal with a society which no longer exists,” Joseph Muscat said. “We don’t have all the needed resources. You end up dedicating a lot of time to things which do not necessarily rake in money and you learn how to handle the different and evolving traits of society.”

And then he said that he’s still “on a learning curve on how to deal with the media” (this coming from somebody who worked for the Labour Party’s media from the age of 19 to his early 30s) and that people in the media (rather than politicians who go ballistic) are “a bit too touchy”.

Governing a country is not just about economics or making money. There are so many other matters that are crucial: enhancing, or at least maintaining, the environment, rights and duties, standards and ethics, the rule of law, better education (not just in schools), halting the deterioration of civilisation and the exponential increase in ugliness, and so much more.