Mário Soares, socialist, ex-president and ex-prime minister, of Portugal
who, as PM, had to beg TWICE for international aid from the IMF,
has just launched a "new" manifesto.
A political dinosaur,
he is completely out-of-date with the new realities of Portugal,
as well as the financial and political turmoil within Europe.
He wants to maintain the status quo,
but calls it a "new" way!
A "new" way of keeping the old paradigm alive,
favouring colossal foreign debt,
increased inequality and impoverishment.
Where was Mário Soares
when his buddy and fellow Socialist,
José Socrates,
drove Portugal into complete financial collapse?
Where was Mário Soares
with his "bright new" ideas,
when the country became more endebted with a stagnant economy?
Where was Mário Soares
when megalomanic "investments" were contracted,
with a bankrupt economy?
Where was Mário Soares
when Portugal became a champion of unequal social mobility?
Where was Mário Soares
when multi-millionaire contracts were signed,
which indebted Portugal for the next 50 years?
Where was Mário Soares
when Portugal's debt became
the biggest gross external debt in the world??
During the ruinous reign of socialist PM José Socrates,
Mário Soares NEVER showed any need
of a "new" manifesto for change
because the "old" paradigm
was extremely favourable to him
and his socialist buddies!
The Mário Soares Foundation
receives millions of euros in tax-payers money each year,
therefore Mário Soares was quite comfortable with the status quo.
But with the new coalition government
and the international "troika",
cutting state contributions
to these abusive socialist spending machines,
suddenly there's a need for a "new" paradigm,
which in actual fact,
is just appealing for the continuation
of the "old" socialist status quo.
Defending his old friend and assosiate,
Otelo Saraiva,
convicted of terrorism and bomb attacks in the 1970s,
as leader of the old FP25 movement,
Mário Soares
clearly shows how far in the past he really lives!!
By making his manifesto public on the eve of the general strike in Portugal,
which caused the rating firm Fitch to lower Portugal's rating to a level of "garbage"
he is just strengthening the lack of international credibility of Portugal.
Patriotic common sense is what is needed in Portugal's darkest hour,
not dinosaurs from the past with unrealistic dreams of ideologic manifestos!!
Mário Soares,
Jurasic Park was popular many years ago.
WAKE UP TO THE "NEW" REALITY!!
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