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As a European I would replace point 1 with: The European leader delaying a serious solution of the Euro crisis
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most times so called leaders don’t appreciate the urgency of a problem. They have stashed money in the tax havens so they sort of fuck everyone else!
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Dutch politicians are mostly cowards with little imagination. Every time things comes difficult, they let the government fall and ask for new elections. Or when though questions are raised they resign and hope that their successor will solve the problem.
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those are an interesting group of politicians. If you can’t solve a problem quit and hope those who come after you will resolve it, how convenient!
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On average it take ten to fifteen years to solve in issue in the Netherlands.
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I think you guys should try a new method that would help reduce the time it requires to resolve some of the important national issues.
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Too many political parties, too many interest groups, too many trade unions, too many conflicting interests. No that wouldn’t happen any time soon, maybe if the monarchy collapses and a new constitution has to be written.
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To write a new constitution in peace time is quite hard, the common argument being, why fix it if it ain’t broken and given what you say about your politicians, it would require a constitutional crisis for that document to be redrafted.
It seems we are becoming a two party state though in practice there are several parties. I think before the last section the count was something at 100+ and some didn’t even have representatives in the house. The biggest interest group we have is MPs bellies, it supersedes all others.
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Precisely, therefore nothing will change here in the Netherlands. Even if should decide to change the constitution, too many people wants too different things. We have rewritten the constitution back in 1983, and the result was practically the same as the previous constitution of 1848. Basically only the language and the sequence of chapters was changed.
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then all you can hope is a crisis that would result in a overhaul of the entire document. Or hope that the politicians don’t mess up things beyond where they already are!
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South America has some shocking leaders, but there is one extremely bright light: Josรฉ Mujica, President of Uruguay. The man is quite brilliant and has foregone all the trappings, choosing to live in his beaten up old farm house in the countryside. He donates 90% of his salary.
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Oh, and he drives his own VW Beetle!
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our mpigs have been haggling for more salary since they were sworn in almost 2 months ago! There should be a quicker way of dealing with such a bunch of bastards without being detected.
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There is, but you go to jail for doing it
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I don’t want to go to jail but I want them out, all of them!
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I have heard of him and his modest lifestyle.
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I don’t think he can be a favorite of African leaders. They prefer to be driven in big armored cars with a large motorcade to protect them from real and imagined enemies! Bunch of thieves they all are, African presidents, that is.
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now that’s a president to look forward to. Can we have beer with him in my backyard, nay, balcony?
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It’d be good, right?
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it would be!
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Fascinating about the president of Uruguay! I’m shocked my own ignorance. I remember he said something funny about Cristina recently and I couldn’t work out if he was very clever or just another game player. I’ll have to read more about this man …
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He was overheard (hot mic) saying, “That old witch, crazy eye was much better.” I liked him even more after that!
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Sorry, what he actually said, “That old hag (witch), she’s even worse than one-eye (crazy-eye). She has no idea what she’s doing.”
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‘Sheeples not peoples’ – I like that, and it’s unfortunately true!
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Ok, now give me ten things you love and that make you happy ๐
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Oh dear, this is a tough one but let me try.
1. My family, they are great. My sisters are fun to be with, my brothers are interesting, my daughter an interesting bundle of joy, my girlfriend a very fine lady and my old man is a man we get a long with.
2. my office: i work in one of the best places one would want to work at
3. my colleagues: very kind people
4. my friends: very kind people
5. my wordpress friends: they make my days
6. beethoven music: it is music you close your eyes to see
7. philosophy; i don’t know how a person can live without it
8. picnics: a time to just be lazy and concentrate on birds and scenery
9. architecture: it is a way of life
10. politics: affects how we live
and a bonus number
11. any good movie any day
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well done. i am so pleased that you have a daughter! that means we have a woman who will grow up and make the world better because her father taught her how, and because she will follow in his footsteps ๐
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thank you for asking. I hardly get asked such hard questions ๐
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As I scrolled down the Reader, I read the title of the post.
Was I ever surprised (and pleasantly shocked ) when I found out that you were the author. You have never ever given any indication of this pissiness in anything I have read by you before. And I have read quite a bit.
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Maybe sometimes it appears in code :-P. The African heads of states are planning to export impunity, our MPs are milking the coffers dry by demanding to paid so much money while they contribute very little to the economy and so on!
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I am so very thankful that my name isn’t on your list! Much love and naked hugs!
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You are on the other list. The list that has things that make me happy ๐
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Oh dear, I think you could relocate that list to most anywhere in the world. Except for the slow internet connection, which just piles on the frustration I imagine!
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The slow internet can be very frustrating especially when I just want to listen to music online or listen to a debate as I work then I have to wait as it buffers, very annoying indeed!
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Anyone would agree with you on this.
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Your comments are hilarious! I agree with another commentator, I haven’t read such a pissed off post before. If I replaced #1 with Greek politicians (the lowest form of life in my opinion), and the internet connection – which is decent – with crippling bureaucracy, I might have written the post myself.
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I think all politicians must have the same parents or go to the same school where they are taught to shit on everyone’s face and at the same display the highest level of idiocy. It appears it is one profession where as one stays longer, the more stupid they become. I read about Rome through the eyes of Cicero and one sees, at least before the fall of the empire, a political class concerned with the welfare of the citizens. I don’t know what and when things went wrong.
Well again, am usually a bundle of joy :-P. Most African heads of state are a-holes! In most countries they change the constitution at whim to stay longer in power, they don’t know what it means the rule of law and for home, they have through appointment of their cronies, favoritism entrenched tribalism and corruption in almost every sphere of life.
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yes – they even seem to be making the same speeches. The point you make about Cicero: I’m thinking it might have to do with the fact that democracy as a political system was still rather new and politicians were more interested in exploring it. Same in Ancient Athens. I read Plato and Aristotle and I weep. None of those aspirations and ideas apply in modern politics. It’s sad but true.
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Tell me, was the financial mess the legislators and bankers put the country in been sorted out?
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It’s not even close to being solved Makagutu and I’m not sure it ever will. The same people who mismanaged the money are still in power. There’s even an ex- Prime Minister who’s running around ivy league universities making big money by giving lectures about the Greek crisis – same guy who was running the country when it went bust.
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That’s really sad. One wonders then why didn’t he put these ideas in place to avert the slide into financial crisis! I know I don’t like politicians
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Maybe he can explain how and why he did ruin the country better than any one else.
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Exactly. I think he’s trying to insinuate that it’s the fault of speculators who decided to attack Europe through it’s weakest country – Greece. As if Greece was well governed until then. He’s a clown. Mind you, his father AND grandfather were also PMs. Talking about nepotism. Sorry for elaborating so much about Greek politics – it always puts me in the mood for a good rant…
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Yes, I know, unfortunately.
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You need not apologize. It is actually good to know what is happening around us.
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Some things are funny, it’s weird that they still exist.
By the way, I didn’t know you have a daughter.
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People will always be weird!
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I like your list. Rant on Noel! I stand and clap in your cheering section.
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I guess I should rant more ๐
Tell me you are doing well.
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I am doing well. ๐
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I Like. Lakini Hiyo No. 8. Sichaelewa…
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Sheeples is a cross between sheep and people, who depend on shepherds to think for them, tell them what they can and can’t do and so on. I hope you get it now ๐
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