The Economy, the Government and Noble Men

By Max Coutinho

3 themes will be quickly addressed:

1. Tourists feed a country’s economy

An article was published in the Portuguese Media claiming that any aversion against tourists and golden residents is a mistake because they don’t only buy houses, they also buy food and clothes. How obtuse an argument can this be? 

People who don’t want to live in Portugal, don’t even make an effort to learn our language, and yet buy real estate just to have a Residence Card, pushing thus the prices of housing up and pushing the “real” residents and people out of the main cities for their comfort and benefit, are these truly the real feeders of a country’s economy? 

Forget stats, let’s go with good sense: if I am a national or if I live in a country for more than 5 years, I work there, I pay my taxes there, I rent a house, I buy a house, I shop, I enrol kids in school, I pay their tuition fees, I go to the cinema, I buy groceries almost everyday, I buy coffee, I buy water, sandwiches, ice cream, etc…I feed the economy. I feed social security. I contribute to a country’s National Security. Relying on tourism and golden residents is not sustainable in the long run. 

2. The Government is making Housing Available but…

When the Portuguese Prime Minister, António Costa, announced his government would finally tackle the Housing Crisis in big cities, we experienced a sense of glee: finally a socialist government would have the testicular fortitude to do what’s right.

How wrong we were.

Last week, the government announced they are going to rent the property from owners to sublease to citizens and also make available the state buildings that have been vacant till now. Caveat: there will be a lottery. I beg your pardon? How on earth will this solve the problem?

Humans have a hard time learning lessons. There is a housing programme already in place that supposedly gives housing to people through lottery and, truth be told, the most socially vulnerable never get it:

• Old people with mentally disabled offspring

• Old people living alone

• Foreign residents who just need a push and now sleep in the streets while having a job

• Families who live in centres (called CAES)

• Young people who earn minimum wage and are still forced to live in subpar conditions

The State places these vulnerable individuals in hostels, in care centres (who don’t care), in horrible places where human humiliation is indescribable…

3. What makes a man?

It’s certainly not a manly organ. Nowadays, anyone can have a phallus and they are not necessarily a man. 

Being a man is something much more complex and interesting, and when they behave like beasts it’s because they don’t fully grasp the nobility of being a great man. 

I have had the pleasure of meeting great and noble men; men that elevate women to their status as a co-adjuvant, men who recognise a woman’s worth and place in society. It is a true honour to work with such men.

I have also had the displeasure of meeting small and petty men; men who reduce women to their status as  sexual objects, as something to be used or displayed as a trophy…contemptible creatures. 

Conclusion

Countries, mainly Portugal, need to stop displaying a hillbilly behaviour of thinking that all things “foreign” are better than their own. Portugal could be a superb country with the right people at its helm - people who really love the country and don’t sell it for half a coin of gold.

A Government is there to serve the people. Any new policy created by it should reflect that goal, and not intensify the corruption of an already deeply corrupt system. The government does well to make housing available but let it be available to everybody who have the means to rent them - minimum wage is 760€, people earning minimum wage have the right to rent a decent house too. It’s that simple a premise. 

Noble Men allowed themselves to be overshadowed by the feminist crap. Real men, regardless of social class and status, must resurface and regain their place in society. 

(Image: Musical Instruments - Evaristo Baschenis)

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