I would like to start with a confession. Back in 2008, when I quit my job as an editor at Business Standard, at the time a daily business newspaper, I also stopped reading the news from my country – Romania. It was simply too annoying. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t the reporter that was annoying, or the writing style. It was the news.
My reasons for quitting news were simple: I worked with news, made news for a while, I got sick of it quite fast and the content of the news pissed me off through its implications.
Take for instance all this crisis mumbo-jumbo. For the past three years, politicians, bankers, analysts – they are all crying “Crisiiiiiiis”. And I’m like: Hell yeah, crisis, got it, now STFU!
The other day, I was watching TV and an American ***hole was saying something like America is acknowledging its role in the global crisis and it is doing its best to fix it. [Flashback to IMF loans to several countries - European countries]
Ok. Nothing to say. We have a crisis. Things are getting pretty crappy. In the meantime, politicians from everywhere have no better business than to:
- travel to bullshit conferences – there is something called Skype, you know, and a lot of other apps that you could use to conference with whoever the fuck you’re meeting on taxpayer money….
- yap about how people need to curb certain types of spending, how they need to pay higher tax and so on to help their countries cope bla bla…. – how about you staying in your own home, instead of rented appartments, how about working remotely instead of wasting shitloads of money for those government facilities where you have to meet and all? How about driving your personal car?
Oh, since you are all relatively rich fucks compared to the average Joe&Jane, how about doing us all a solid and not cash in your paycheck until the crisis goes away. We all know you’ve been slacking at some point in your political career or you did one of your campaign contributor a favor that costed the taxpayer some, so, it would be only fair that now, when we need your sacrifice, you pay us back the amounts you cashed in while not doing your job before the crisis.
So everywhere we have these politicians who keep yapping about stuff, right? However, their salaries and benefits stay intact, the royal families around Europe are probably chillin’ as well. They don’t have to curb their spending, why would they? They the THE peeeeeeps, y’all.
In the meantime, since Europe can no longer assist states that are in the crapper, we see a fairy sparkling in and tinkling happily: “We are the IMF and we are here to save your sorry ass. It won’t cost you much – just your soul! Muhahaha!!!!”
