The Public Transportation Strike.

[janestarz]

In reply to the plans of the people's representatives, the unions have decided to go on strike. They too represent the people, the working people. Those who actually have a job that requires more than sitting and behaving badly. In any case, the problems are that the ministers (the people's so-called representatives, the ones we vote for every four odd years and then totally seem to abandon all reason and just do their thing in Den Haag without really listening to the ones that put them there). Anyway, these guys want to change the pension plans and the unemployment benefits. Everyone who's already down in the gutter, ow, let's trod them in the muck a little more. Because, after all, those business men that have two houses and three cars already pay too much taxes anyway, and hey, let's skip the education of our nation's future, just cut down the money we pay the old people and the ones that bent their backs for fourty or fifty years, demotivate them and live out our lives in luxury!

No I'm not angry about this, I'm just fucking pissed off

So, now the unions say enough is enough, and the entire public transport system is down. There isn't a train driver in all of Holland ready to get in his train and drive. Some buses drive, but all trams, trains and subways are down.
And remember those bastards who say they rule this country? The ministers? One of them dared say that "the public transport strike will cause the people too much inconvenience". Which bit don't you understand fucker? The bit that we put you on your comfy blue chair or the fact that they are on strike because you are causing all of us a lot of fucking inconvenience!?

Now I don't always agree with Wouter Bos of the PvdA, (comparable to Labour), but I'm thankful Balellende (Balkenende, our prime minister) is in a hospital because I'm sure he'd have a speach, wave his wand Barry Trotter-style, and say that the people should worry more about normen and waarden in stead of going out on the street to protect our very lifestyle.

I already hated politics, but that comment of the people on strike causing so much inconvenience only makes me hate it more. Don't cut funding on welfare, education or health, cut the people that actually have money to spare...

Comments

[coen.livejournal.com]

"cut the people that actually have money to spare..."
You mean people like me? :-)

I agree with you. There are a lot of people who can take some cutting. I won't like being cut, and it won't make me happy, but I can handle it. But the people that are on welfare now, or on minimum wage, they can have no more of it.
I worked with people on welfare, I have seen how they spend their money, and really, there is not anything to spare. If we are going to make health insurance and doctor visits any more expensive for them, it will be too much.

Besides, CDA and VVD keep on telling us that they need to cut now, or our depts will be unacceptably high in the future. I understand that argument. But what they don't see is that cutting also creates large depts for the future.
If now we don't invest in education, we will in the future have more young people who don't have the right diploma's, who don't have the chance to get good jobs. That will raise crime, which will cost us money. There will be more to pay on welfare, which will cost us money.
Same goes for healthcare and lots of other things. It will cost us money in the future if we don't do it right today.

[endimi.livejournal.com]

And over here the politicians are starting to say: "We should become more like our Dutch colleagues..."
And the unions announced some public transportation strikes as well: first one on October 22, but only for the transportation in Brussels and others to be defined...
So it looks like one of these days I'm gonna have a little bit of holiday, because when there's a train strike, there's no way I'm getting to work.

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

"Besides, CDA and VVD keep on telling us that they need to cut now, or our depts will be unacceptably high in the future"

They tell us that because they want to stay within the loss allowed as a member of the European Union. But what they can't accept is that almost none of the other countries will stay within the boundaries of the loss allowed.

Wasn't Bakellende the one who promised to invest into a "kenniseconomie"? What's happening to that resolution?