Beware the 9th of March

By Johnny D. Symon

Last week I alluded to a situation involving an empty Spanish government Pensions Fund, discovered to be so in 1996 by incoming President, José Maria Aznar. The outgoing government had busied themselves through patching up each and every economic blunder they'd performed, therefore the Pensions Fund was yet another cow to be milked in the process. Socialist regimes world-wide rip off Joe Public this way, they enter the fray through promising everything under the sun, then when the going gets tough, as it surely does, the first major casualties are Mr and Mrs Common Taxpayer, and they're a prime target for everything under the sun, politically and chiefly, includes them.

With just two more days to Spain's general election, and the present incumbents insisting that the economy has never been healthier, something else of vital importance appears to have caught the flu, common cold, or is severely hungover, or maybe the poor thing went to bed one winters night and failed to wake up the following day, because dear old ISA (Indicador Sintético de Actividad) has not appeared at her place of work. ISA has gone AWOL! Yet ISA is one of the most important players in Spain's pre-electoral campaign.

But truth be known, ISA is absent because Solbes, the Economy Minstrel, opened his eye one day and sung out his latest political refrain, a song referring to a fair maiden who shortly before being betrothed, was kidnapped, then locked up top of the castle tower. Old Solbes happens to be the very boy who kidnapped ISA, the rara avis maiden, and he did so due to the fact that he's no more than a brain dead pinhead.

Spain is one of the few nations in the Western world with an Economy Minister that believes both his hands and feet contain 250 digits, more or less, according to how he perceives his place in the scheme of things each and every working day. We lesser mortals, however, generally find ourselves counting on 5 fingers per hand, and hope that they remain so as time goes by. But that old newt Solbes can lose fingers and then he can grow 'em back. He'll wiggle his tail so hard that once in a while it falls off, and a new one begins to grow in it's stead.

Solbes is a schtickee lizard with a tail out back and a tale on his tied tongue. As Minister for the Economy, he takes it and fakes it, yet in a perfect Spain he'd simply be known as old Pedro, the john-boy. Sadly though, old Pedro Solbes avoids the toilet, preferring to soil the economy instead. Both truth and ISA the fair maiden are out the window, and that's a great pity because ISA's tale is sorry indeed. Her tales of economic woe outlining the recent past, present, then 6 months on into the future, might well have changed the voting habits of even the staunchest of Socialist voters.

ISA did not die in her sleep, nor is she sick, she's alive and well, but on enforced leave. Death and sickness is the handiwork of the present Spanish government. If they're returned to power on Monday morning, ISA will appear soon afterwards, for that is the way of things, and her belated message shall go something like this; "Beware the 9th of March" ... "ides" historically has greater force, though maybe ISA's late warning shall be released on or around that fateful and historic day of yore.

Another kook Socialist Minstrel, named Calderon, who pretends to uphold the position of Employment Minister, is also a neat schtickee lizard. For some time he's boasted about new and better jobs, and the unemployment figures seemed to bear this out for a spell, until the discovery that pinhead Calderon had been secretly regarding 3-day work contracts as full employment. This enabled him to remove many from the unemployment register.

Down South in Andalusia, it's local Socialist government, Junta de Andalucia, bossed over by one Manuel Chavez, performs the self-same dirty tricks as it's big brother in Madrid Central. Manuel recently boasted that after more than a quarter of a century as Andalusia's political hotshot, he only has 3000 euros savings in the bank, and if this were true, and few believe it, then Manuel has self-confessedly proven that he's unfit to hold that position.

His Conservative opponent on Sunday's electoral round, named Javier Arenas, is chalk to Manuel's big cheese status, but not only that, he's one of the sharpest and most intelligent dudes on Spain's political landscape. Nonetheless, intellect can be an empty rattle if bereft of two additional forces named honesty and integrity. Thankfully Javier Arenas owns and operates the full set. Manuel Chavez, if he so wished, and if Joe and Josephine voter wished also, could feasibly remain in power until he's 100-years of age or older. But if Javier Arenas gets his way, no president of Andalusia could serve more than two terms, a plan designed to eradicate what's become a longstanding example of institutionalized corruption. One notable example being the fact that shortly before general election time Manuel declares Andalusia's regionals to be held on the same day, then sets about promising all and sundry; Free vacations if they place their vote in the Left direction. Others, regionally, are promised EU property renovation grants and even jobs as a subsequent bonus in the renovating business, should they vote PSOE.

This week became the harbinger of doom in Manuel's Andalusia, when the Supreme Court upheld a parent's objection to the government's compulsory "Good Citizenship Training" program, which effectively opens the door in Andalusia for other parents to do likewise, and thus put the Act out to pasture. Manuel appeared on Canal Sur TV this morning, and talked about the Supreme's decision. He said, "Parents can't decide if their child can or can't take Math, so why should this be any different?" I only wish I'd been there in the studio with him, because my answer would involve his own government's new "Ley de Memoria." This law works in a similar fashion to that which empowered the Taliban to blow up the ancient statues of Buddha. It aims to erase ALL memory of Franco and his long reign in Spain. I'd therefore have asked Manuel that should a Conservative government take over next week, and introduce a new law that provides in the school curriculum a compulsory history lesson of Franco's Spain, would he feel justified in taking court action against it?

But there's a strong point here that must be addressed. Mathematics is a logical necessity for any school curriculum, no one in their right mind would consider removing it. But removing History, and removing non-compulsory Religious Education, only to replace both with compulsory Good Communist training, is madness in the extreme. This week's Judicial decision, therefore, serves in a small way as a glimmer of hope for those who hold an opposite view to the present incumbency.

Manuel Chavez is not directly related to our infamous Hugo of Venezuela, though sometimes I get the impression that they not only act alike, but share a common Socialist ailment, otherwise known as yak-attack. And off they fly for hours on end, spewing out their false promises and assurances of a near perfect political landscape, yet the average person in the street is at a loss to see, in physical terms, what those bums present from their ether-nether regions!

While still on the subject of Venezuela, Methanuel Chavez placed himself in the position of some kind of Communist Mother Teresa recently, through pretending to act as go-between with Colombia and FARC rebels over their hostages. It was a neat trick, and a kind of personal show-boating, aimed at regaining the people's support and trust in Venezuela after almost falling from grace due to his heavy-handed treatment of the media, and desire to gain total control of his people by referendum. Sure and further proof that old "Gilipollas" Hugo leads, not with an iron fist, but with an ad-ham-hoc one.

Shortly after his Mother Teresa trip was over, a neat and tidy attack on the FARCs that left one or two of it's leading lights stone-dead on the forest floor as ant food, found Methanuel Chavez with yet another space to exercise his larynx from the comfort of his personal Caracas. I watched on in wonder as he spat out his feeble thoughts, then later on he yakked further still when the news broke that he'd been a kind financial benefactor to the FARC cause all along. Though I'm certain also that he was an "armafactor" too. Though above all, the world yet waits to receive news of what the real Hugo Chavez is, sum and substance-wise, so here it goes; Hugo is no more than a talking bum, and a South American armadildo. He's proof that anyone can scale the heights of national and international power if they've remembered to forget their brain in the process.

The origins of the military salute are worthy of note here, for originally soldiers would swing out their arms, or raise their hand over their eyes, on meeting a superior Caesar, as a representation of someone shielding his eyes from bright sunlight, his superior therefore was regarded as giving off a bright light, so bright that one had to protect his eyes. But nowadays people salute their leaders one way or another, when they should in actual fact be holding their nose, at least in such cases as the present Spanish government and old Hugo "Bozo Bottled" Chavez.

I reckon old Hugo's days are numbered, due to Infidel Castrato's departure from power, for as Castrato's reign began with his quest to form a Socialist Revolution in Cuba, then spreading out like a canker throughout South America thereafter, likewise Castrato's departure will spell a beginning of the end for Communism both in Cuba and throughout the South American Continent that it had gradually infected. I reckon that this canker shall go into regression, Cuba first, then everywhere else.

But Europe will remain sick and poorly for much longer. Europe's recovery, and especially Spain's, will depend on the nature of next Sunday's medicine. At present next Sunday is open for grabs, and therefore tricky to predict. But one thing's for sure, Spain's weak condition will not be an overnight recovery, so much damage has been wrought in all aspects, that we only can see surface signs, much lies hidden that, like fair ISA, will eventually rise to the surface and the public eye. With a Conservative government next week, recovery will be swift and certain, on the other hand, if the present loons remain, further damage is a certainty, and recovery shall take far longer, long enough even to celebrate Manuel Chavez's 100th birthday celebration as longstanding President of the "Junta de Andalucia al Islam!"

© Johnny D. Symon