PT's PM has (thought he has) opted for the 'survival of the fittest' reasoning in devising the 2012 national budget. Sadly, the budget's likely outcomes - as many politicians, economists, and any instructed portuguese for that matter, point out - will entail inter alia the (literal) death of thousands of families and small and medium firms that depend (directly, via income, and indirectly, via consumption) upon the limited public resources that the State ought to spend - to some extent - effectively and efficiently on Education, Justice, Health, and many other welfare-enhancing activities. Unfortunately, the ones that are able to survive this unprecedented wave of brutality - austerity is surely needed but it does not include PT's economic and fiscal measures (and a handful of good yet innocuous intents) for 2012, for the inefficient and profit-averse corporate public sector (e.g., BdP, CGD, TAP, RTP, CTT, PT, CP, ML, STCP, and so forth) with the thousands of well-paid jobs in the top and middle management layers - constitute per se the primary cause of PT's current state of affairs, namely the politicians and political-oriented technicians (e.g., lawyers, economists, managers) that on account of their money-making (and other, less recommended) abilities, have been able to develop a (financial) shield against the rising winds of illegal and unconstitutional (i.e., inegalitarian and disproportional) taxes that the 'common' PT's people need to pay (which lead one to daunting difficulties in order to respect their financial commitments, mostly house mortgage, and thus failing to contribute to PT's economical growth (e.g., by reducing private consumption of goods and services in tourism or education industries). And, consequently, the brutality's by-product is the emigration (or death) of the competent and valuable, young technocrats that have invested heavily in their instruction and have built a wealthy base of know-how in the beginning of their professional life and who are suddenly left 'out of the picture' on account of their below-average salaries and savings and therefore cannot survive in this (biased) struggle, facing almost unsurmountable (internal and external) contingential forces.
So, one should clearly dismiss with the alleged PM's dictum that 'this is the only way out of PT's crisis', for this path's only exit is another (bigger, let alone irreversible) crisis. In a nutshell, PT's brutality in 2012 is not austerity (as many have said repeatedly); if something, it is political autism with severe deleterious consequences for the majority of PT's people. And, for sure, this is not an acceptable Darwinian rationale!
So, one should clearly dismiss with the alleged PM's dictum that 'this is the only way out of PT's crisis', for this path's only exit is another (bigger, let alone irreversible) crisis. In a nutshell, PT's brutality in 2012 is not austerity (as many have said repeatedly); if something, it is political autism with severe deleterious consequences for the majority of PT's people. And, for sure, this is not an acceptable Darwinian rationale!
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