Moving Portugal costs less than 1 euro!
by Francisco Gonçalves
The UK Prime Minister has resigned. After taking office on September 6th, we accepted a ‘tax cut that left the ‘market’ in shock. It was long 45 days without cargo, after which they presented their resignation to King Charles III.
We could not have a better price of arrival for the public burdens of the unprepared than the chaos into which the (supposedly) most solid western democracy has allowed itself to be plunged. The democracy of tweets, voluntarism and ‘half the ball and strength’ gives these results, sometimes quickly, as in the United Kingdom, other times more slowly, as in Portugal.
The UK Government appears to have imploded. In our country, it is not able to develop so much, but can our model today be very good? Does this number not bother you? It has to bother. This is the price of bad governance. Not from this Government, but from many, many governments, and from all of us!
The obstacles to the country’s growth and development do not cost resources from public accounts. The decisions we plan are careful with intelligence, courage and will. The latter are the most difficult to find. Among the chair, our political cadres have always opted for the chair, so they almost make decisions.
Whenever a Government’s desire to attract more foreign investment is announced, the first reaction is to smile, and everything not to cry.
Most Portuguese governments do not want foreign investment. they may want, therefore, if there is no reason to wait for the investment projects that await decision, and for reasons that await the large investment projects that await decision.
For years, we’ve heard about ‘state fats’ and inefficiency, but we rarely hear about opinions or decisions that never come. Not just the new Lisbon airport that takes time to be established. There is no strategic decision, in Portugal, that does not take more than a generation to be taken, particularly when facing political correctness.
Faced with the energy crisis that we face today, we must question ourselves about the option of not exploiting the gas we have in our sea, or about how we anticipated, in years, the replacement of coal in the production of electricity. Germany and Austria reopened the plants, the Netherlands never closed them. Apparently, we are rich and we don’t know it!
Of course this out loud is accompanied by a cry of criticism, insulting that our ignorance and how we want to destroy the saying planet. It is necessary to have the capacity to face, with rationality and intelligence, the problems that the country is experiencing. But, above all, it takes courage to use the pen to counteract the changes, who don’t want anything, because they don’t want to despise anyone who wants this state of affairs to end.
Moving to Portugal costs less than 1 euro. It will cost the price of the paper on which it is shipped – with an electronic signature it is even more affordable. If the value of courage is priceless, the price of incompetence and cowardice is immense: the bill is already at 4.4 million poor people!
PS – This week I received a private message, following a news I shared on my Facebook page, from a father who confessed to me that he hasn’t come to give his children a long time. He and his wife are both employed. Let there be humility, suffering of others.