The end of the line? All effort down the drain??

Vitor Gaspar, 

ex-minister of Finance, who resigned today

Defeated by an unending political war against him, 

Vitor Gaspar has thrown in the towel.

A sad and dangerous day for Portugal
 as the troika's consolidation programme 

will only be ended in July 2014.
There's especially an enormous concern
 as to the enormous international debt that still needs to be settled

and  the continuous process of building-up of international credibility. 

Thanks to Mr Vitor Gaspar's international prestige 
and recognised hard work, millions of millions of euros

in public debt have been paid in the last two years, 

after the socialist government of José Socrates left the country bankrupt and

without any international credit or much less any credibility.
Through Mr. Gaspar's efforts and work, 
Portugal could return to international markets to finance itself
at more favourable rates.

Vitor Gaspar was blamed for all the hardships that portuguese has had to face,

with an enormous increase in taxes, and a never-ending avalanche of unemployment
eagerly forgetting who was responsible for the misery in which the country was plunged,
after 6 years of lies, hiding the evidence and rife corruption.

But unfortunately, 

Portuguese do not want to face the truth.

Portuguese love to be lied to.

Portuguese enjoy living on borrowed money, 

of tax-payers in other European countries.

Portuguese love to live as if there's no tomorrow.

Portuguese believe that the State own them a living.

When someone like Gaspar tells them the truth 

about their miserable condition, 

they hate Gaspar.

When Gaspar implements the financial restrictions,

negotiated and signed by the Socialist government of Sócrates, 

the "bad boy" is Gaspar.

When Gaspar pays the trillions in debts, 

left behind by the socialist, with the public finances in tatters, 

with no money to pay public servants at the end of the month, 

Gaspar is the culprit.

When Gaspar discovers the dimension of corruption 

which reigned in the previous government, 

Gaspar becomes enemy number one.

When Gaspar said:

"There seems to be a huge gap 

between what the Portuguese think they are entitled to 

as the social functions of the state and the taxes they are willing to pay 

to ensure these same functions. 

This problem is fundamentally a difficult problem, 

both from the social, or political point of view. "

(24.10.12)

Socialists are in complete euphoria at this resignation of Vitor Gaspar.

Smelling blood, their dreams seem to have come true.

But unfortunately, 

its a sad and dangerous day for Portugal.

Without the consolidation of the troika programme yet done, 

Portugal is in danger of slipping into chaos, 

especially with the socialists wolves closing in for a kill

going into a never-ending spiral of spending, 

revoking essential measures and regulations

 put into place by Gaspar.