Now, don't get me wrong, my fellow Europeans, but... you're a bit slow on the uptake, aren't you...?
After being pretty much robbed blind for 25 years, you're coming back for more, to the tune of 21K million euros in 6 years. Jesus!
Pray, tell... what exactly are you expecting to be different, this time? Have you required better safeguards? Are you - finally - going to take an active role in auditing the expenditure?
Or are you just shoving some more money here, and, 10 years down the line, complain you've been robbed... again?
Germany may be headed in the right direction, with its anti-euro party. Yes, I know. It will be catastrophic for Portugal, and I shouldn't be saying it's the right direction.
But I'm tired of this. It's been 25 years being led by bullshit artists (both national and foreign), so maybe the only real solution for us is to crash and burn, and become the new Albania. It's pretty much what we've been for a large part of the XX century; and, in all honesty, it wasn't our own effort that got us out of that situation.
Ah, what do I know?
All I'm saying is this - the vast majority of this money that's heading our way is going to waste, in an exact copy of what happened in the previous 25 years. By "waste", I mean it's going to be spent on projects of dubious need (at best), at both inflated prices (that will inevitably go over-budget) and penalizing terms to the State, in order to fill the pockets of a restricted number of individuals.
After being pretty much robbed blind for 25 years, you're coming back for more, to the tune of 21K million euros in 6 years. Jesus!
Pray, tell... what exactly are you expecting to be different, this time? Have you required better safeguards? Are you - finally - going to take an active role in auditing the expenditure?
Or are you just shoving some more money here, and, 10 years down the line, complain you've been robbed... again?
Germany may be headed in the right direction, with its anti-euro party. Yes, I know. It will be catastrophic for Portugal, and I shouldn't be saying it's the right direction.
But I'm tired of this. It's been 25 years being led by bullshit artists (both national and foreign), so maybe the only real solution for us is to crash and burn, and become the new Albania. It's pretty much what we've been for a large part of the XX century; and, in all honesty, it wasn't our own effort that got us out of that situation.
Ah, what do I know?
All I'm saying is this - the vast majority of this money that's heading our way is going to waste, in an exact copy of what happened in the previous 25 years. By "waste", I mean it's going to be spent on projects of dubious need (at best), at both inflated prices (that will inevitably go over-budget) and penalizing terms to the State, in order to fill the pockets of a restricted number of individuals.
And in 2020 the country won't be any different from what it is now, unless conjunctural circumstances force some extreme change upon us; but there's a higher probability of such an event pushing us towards Bangladesh, rather than Northern Europe.
In short, my fellow Europeans - you haven't learned anything.
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