Human Rights in Europe? Dead...

By Max Coutinho

France is burning up in flames; Portugal is going through a tense moment; the United Kingdom doesn’t know how to fix its migrant problems; and Europe doesn’t know what to do with Ukraine and Russia…Salute!!

My generation always read in books how the poor state of Europe’s economy led to unrest, conflicts and all-out war: now we are not reading it from books any longer, it is happening right before our eyes, all over again. Humans never learn - I keep repeating. 

So, what do we have right now? Why are people fed up and fighting back? Cause finally they realised that they have been lied to since the Post-War period: remember when they sold the illusion that credit was the answer for all problems? Now, credit is killing people and countries. No wonder bank after bank is falling…once again. 

Typhon is roaming Planet Earth…

If we come to think of things very plainly, we conclude the following: 

• Companies create jobs, but for each job they create they pay taxes

• Companies pay also revenue taxes and other indirect taxes

• Workers pay taxes in order to work, they pay taxes on their revenue as well

• In order to eat they pay taxes: tax on bread, on water, on milk, on fruit, on coffee, on rice, on everything they put in their mouth

• In order to be clean and go to work clean, it’s not enough to pay for the water they consume; they also pay taxes to observe hygiene rules

• The electricity used to cook the food they eat is rightfully paid for but also ridiculously taxed

• In order to cover their body, to protect decency and morals, they buy clothes that are taxed at 23% at best…should people start walking around naked? 

And the above description is a tiny example of what is going on out there. In Portugal, if you earn minimum wage (760€) at the end of the month you are left with +/- 676€ (after social security tax): how does this person eat, get dressed and pay rent with this salary, in a country where renting a room without a private bathroom (not a flat) can cost 600€? If you can only afford 150€ or 250€ you are left with one option: sharing a room with 8 people in a filthy house or hostel. 

Am I one of the very few seeing that Human Rights are being brutally savaged in Europe? And what is worse, very soon, this situation will pose a serious National Security issue for European countries. May the Lord have mercy. 

N.B: I would suggest moving to Africa, but even there the god of Speculation is having fun.

 

(Image: Riots in France - Google Images)

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