Posts Tagged ‘Crisis’

Ana’s plan (forget Marshall)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

First six steps of Ana Tajder’s plan to save the world:

  1. Switch off the financial markets. Just like that. They are anyway nothing but legalised crime. OK, softer version: tax them, but heroically! No, I changed my mind again  – switch them off!
  2. Put all big companies under state control. What is that shit about Coca-Cola buying water wells and Time Warner deciding about what we think?
  3. Limit wealth (500 million [€ or $, I don’t care] should be enough for any rich person. More is not doing anyone any good. And definitely is stolen. The rest should be given to state for the projects that will benefit ALL
  4. Wake the governments up (!) – only princesses are allowed to sleep for 100 years!
  5. Remind those sleeping princesses about their job description: serving, protecting and guiding their people and assuring well being for ALL. Not: licking capital’s ass. If they are not capable of doing that, do what you do with every employee who is not capable of doing their job: fire them. No golden handshake – employment office. Eventually retrain them into… don’t know…gardeners or something similar, where they can’t do much damage.
  6. Find someone who is capable of being the government and serving the people. Ooooopssss! I know, it is going to be a hard job. But maybe they exist.

OK, that should be enough for the start.

What are they waiting for?

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Yesterday, my best friend sent me an article about her company being accused for corruption and money washing. Could be that they’ll close soon. She just started the job three months ago, after a year-long search. Today, she had new news “My boyfriend came home yesterday evening all angry. It seems that he’s going lose two big customers.” He owns an event company. “He was screaming about this stupid world wide financial crisis and how it is going to ruin us all.” I sad that the absurd thing is that (among the fact that this is a virtual crisis, that the corporate profits are continually increasing and that it could all have been prevented) we are going to feel the crisis but the ones guilty for it, the ones with billions on their accounts, will surely not starve. “And they expect us to have babies.” I said, smiling. “Come on, I can’t even commit to a fitness studio because I’m not sure I’ll be able to pay the €99 monthly fee in a few months.” She answered.

Well, it is obvious that the system not working. So why do we still have to wait for a change?