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Shady state policy: captive citizens pay protection fee

Postat la: 07.09.2010 10:51 Ultima actualizare: 07.09.2010 10:52

"Let's not wait for the state to take care of us!" I felt the strength of this truth in the air expired by Mr. President when coming out from Cireşica and so is it, I guarantee. God forbid the state takes better care of us than it is already doing. In the last months, I've witnessed a deliberate act of state aggression against Romanians. The state took his own citizens captive and, as a criminal, asks them for a protection fee. Desperate to bleed us white, the Government of this country picks its contributors' pockets and, in the end, it still has the guts to tell them it's for their own good. That it offers them protection. That it has ripped them off to be better off in a yet to come but bright future.

So what nobody will be alive to see it?! That's why Mr. Băsescu' saying is simply insulting for hundreds of thousands of Romanians who manage on their own and expect nothing else from the state except leaving them at peace. Out of "solidarity", the systematic deprivation Mr. Băsescu and Boc inflict is a blow upon the most active population running all day long to earn extra living. How could you not stop these people from their start, how could you not make them stay in line queuing, and let them know the state will cater if they stay in the queue.

The truth is that there enough Romanians with set believes who rejoice: "Băsescu lead you by the nose with the copyright, you jukeboxes!" I wish these Romanians without dilemma to live in a world without press where the only possible debate is on fall's arrival on the Elenei Udrea's blog. It is useless to remind them that broadsheet press - with double paid taxes - has already experienced salaries cuts and frequent and painful sacks since the time when Romania's President and Government hadn't heard a crisis would come. That big media companies amputated in good season their budgets, anticipating not only the fall of the advertising market, but also the lust of the "unprepared" authorities for money. That we've already paid for the incompetence of these people.

If you want to come out of the diversion, you don't need to listen to this "tax dodger" journalist, you may very well chat with a painter or an architect, a taxi diver or a translator, a plumber or an attorney, an accountant, an actor, a writer. They will all say that, actually, Mr. Băsescu is obsessed with taking revenge against "moguls" and, for this specific purpose, he will roll down entire gilds, not only journalists that are a small percentage of the "independent activities" body. All these people are collaterals. Is Mr. Băsescu somehow regretful towards the suite of intellectuals who elected him President? Was Prinţesa Ardealului among them, was Guţă there? Then I don't think so.

After the free lancers tribe runs out, the demolition fury of the state will be directed against other social categories, because the situation of the country is "dramatic", as Mr. Băsescu put it yesterday. It is just a matter of time.

I have never, not even in the times of Adrian Năstase, come across such a shortage of hope among people I am talking to, either budgeters, small enterprisers or employees of private companies. In the case of many captive citizens their parents' solution is in fashion again: flight. It is, after all, a desperate gesture of patriotism: to leave loving your country with a deep hatred.

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#1 Corina 7.09.2010 12:07

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"To earn extra living" might not be the most suitable choice. Something about money, better. There should be some phrases about earning extra money, bucks, etc.
And
...there are enough Romanians with set beliefs... Not "believes."

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