German Chancellor Angela Merkel says 2010 going to be a tough and difficult year
by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
London, UK, January 1, 2010: In her New Year's message to the German people the German chancellor spelled out the fact that 2010 is going to be a tough and difficult year and she was pulling no punches.
Mrs Merkel would appear to be the only world leader who can read the signs and who is also not afraid to tell the country and the people how things are going to be.
Unlike others, such as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who keeps telling the country that everything is going to turn out brilliant in 2010 and that the people must reelect “New Labor” and him to keep the economy going.
While the German Chancellor know too well that you can't lie to the people too much and too often the British PM does not seem to understand that and, seeing the way the people in the UK have been acting, they also seem to believe that it is going to be business as usual in 2010 if the way they spent in the run up to Christmas and in the Boxing Day sales.
If their spending is on credit cards then Ii am not sure as to whether one should hit them over the head with something hard or whether one should get medical help for them.
I would hate to see when they wake up to reality and the bills are facing them; bills they may be unable to pay because of the fact that there is a wage freeze in where they work or even for the fact that they may have lost their job.
Reality still has not sunk in over the last nigh on two years as to the state of the economy and the state of finances in it, thanks to the fat cats in the banking world, and now they seem to believe the statements of a Prime Minister who is fighting for his political future.
Lies, lies, and lies again seems to be all that most politicians are prepared to serve up to their people.
They never seem to have hear that you can fool some people some time but you cannot fool all people all the time.
2010 is going to be a tough and difficult year, and that not just in Germany, where the economy is picking up again. It is going to be a difficult year for the people everywhere and with pay freezes in the public sector in Britain, for instance, there might be real problems and hardships lying ahead.
Time, I think, that we all woke up and became aware that it is not all as we are being told by those that are trying to make out the world is back on the up.
Then again, is that the kind of up we really want. One that returns to the “business as usual” of the previous years and decades?
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