However this year I add an exception to watch the contest because representing Portugal came a group: "Os Homens da Luta" (The Men of the Struggle) with a funny song subtly against the European Union policies, about the crise in Europe and Portugal as well, about the social inequality, about the IMF (International Monetary Fund), about the German sovereignity in the Euro-economic space...it's about everything that's going on here but it's singing in a funny and ironic way I would even say: a silly way...many people should had thought: "how silly are that crew!!!", but the message underneath that cheerful and apparently harmless portuguese was everything but not silly. That song basically encourages people to fight for their rights with joy and confidence. So I really don't think that Europe wants to help Portugal, even because they charge interest rates higher than the IMF that I think that is too another fakery. What's going on here is that Portugal adopted the Euro coin without a referendum, that coin was just imposed with the promise of a more equal and united Europe. This just couldn't work here and the first reason of all is that with the Euro all prices in Europe are equal but not the citzen's incomes, for example in Portugal the minimu wage is less than 500 Euros but in Germany it is about 1500 Euros! And our prices are all quite similar or even more expensive because we import many goods. Other thing that happened here is that our farmers are receiving subsidies from the EU for not produce, lots of factories were closed but they were in good shape producing a lot before the year 2000 and we are more and more insolvents in the hands of our creditors that just came in time to help us! But the point here is only this: we let them steal us and we have elected miserable governments. What's the point of paying to the farmers to not produce? I just have a reason: the EU own convenience! And just for not to mention the fishing: a country like Portugal surrounded by maritime resources which saw its fishing activity reduced or almost extinguished...and our coast now is full of large capitalists fishing vessels specially spanish vessels...
Of course if we don't produce, we import so they win and we lose and then there is a calamitous deficit! Notice that certain countries that adopted the Euro are super fine, for example Germany and Finland that without the Euro really couldn't have developed to this point after all that wars and conflicts...of course some countries as Portugal, Ireland and Greece didn't go well. What's the problem then? We have the same coin haven't we?
If I could choose Portugal would never had adopted the Euro, I remember the times when I was a kid and I could buy lots of sweets with 500 escudos that now are about 2,50 Euros and we almost cannot buy anything to eat with that...in Portugal everything inflated to double but our wages remained and now are even being cutted to pay this debt to someone we don't quite know who is, for some reason we quite don't know and we still don't know how much will we pay! All we know is that almost everything is to the banks whose managers accumulate astonishing profits even with this big crush crisis that they warned us about. So what's the name for this process? in economics it is called speculation. Speculation creates nothing it only transferes wealth so if someone is winning money it's because someone is losing money. So the truth about all this damn crisis is that the money didn't go way it is unevenly distributed and now I think you can understand why the top gear cars are selling more than ever, the 5 stars hotels and restaurants are full and all the luxury goods sells so well...
Well but about the Euro contest itself although I don't like it as the contest that it is, I was surprised with the good songs from Iceland and Finland in which I voted, I appreciated the finnish song most of them all because it had an ecological message and that's what the world needs to be healthy and feasible to life.
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