Honestly, for me, the situation is so stupid that I don´t understand people.
Throughout the Salazar dictatorship we knew that people liked football, fado, Fátima or in general, religion, and this was a way of forgetting difficulties.
But then we really had difficulties! We didn´t have social security, good pensions, good medical assistance, and so on...
But today we like to “in”. Why religion?
Nowadays, it´s so nice to know news about kings, jet-set, TV presenters, etc.
What crisis? We have subsidies! We don´t need to work, the welfare state takes care of us! They have this responsibility!
But my questions are:
where is our responsibility a citizen?
As a father?
As a boss?
In general there are no responsibilities. People live in the clouds!
Again about crisis: on TV I only watched people complaining in the Algarve, saying that this year they will have to save money because things are bad, bla, bla, bla,
But they are on holidays (that week I was working!) and spending money, and they are in the Algarve! How can they be so ridiculous?
But they had been complaining!
In my opinion, in reality, and in general of course, until now people in general didn´t feel the crisis!
Until now the welfare state had been solving difficulties.
In public administration less 5% in wages over € 1.500,00 is not important. These people earned a lot of money during many years (they don´t know why) and they never worked as private workers. This is reality.
Now the pensions over € 1.500,00 will be reduced in 5% on average.
What´s the problem? € 1.500,0 is a good pension! And most of these people that have this pension amount, didn´t have any difficulty in order to have it.
In general these pensions are a bonus! A bonus directly from private pockets to public workers' bank account.
Because of that, actually, presently, we don´t have a big crisis.
We only have a public deficit. We only need to reduce the public administration expenses.
On the other hand, for me, the main challenge is to create conditions in order to have a big growth in the future.
Reduce high pensions: go ahead!
Reduce politicians' jobs: go ahead!
