wow

In Dutch Politics A Landslide of votes to the progressive left party PvdA and the right wing Party VVD gives new opportinies to get out of the mess Europe left us. But now these 2 big parties, who have a majority in Dutch Parliament (Tweede Kamer), have to work together in a coalition to run this country.  However they haven't  a majority in the House of Commons (Eerste Kamer).

My question and hope is that we can create some rest and might be able to negotiate and use the poldermodel instead of let all happen and do nothing.
If it's true and tomorrow morning there will be a draw, or a close call, I hope Democrats 66 will make a difference.

I'm trilled....

deficit

Today, May 5, it's 2 weeks ago that the Dutch Cabinet fell. Luckily the Dutch parliament was quick enough to find a way out off the stalemate in politics. A new agreement to cut the deficit was concluded in 2 days. At the same time the elections will be on September 12. We avoided an EU-penalty of 1.2 billion euro by making the financial houshold healthy. How long will it last I ask myself.

AlpeduZes

Life goes so fast nowadays. There are happening a lot of things around me. - a new house is being built - I am training for the bicycle ride on mount Alpe d'huez in France to earn money in the effort to beat cancer. - I am working in a bad atmosphere. - in national politics there is happening much. We don't have a mayority cabinet, even with support of a third party. It stranded on the financial reforms to keep the deficit below 3% of our national budget. Talks about those reforms lasted 7 weeks. No information was given. When it stranded 5 other parties who were neglected made a compromise to come to a quick agreement to save the country and to avoid a EU penalty of 1.5 billion Euro.

Poor

At last, the leaders of 2 southern countries who are responsible for the bad state of their country have gone.

A new one listening to the original name of Papademos might take over the office of Papandreou.
The father of the people takes over the office of the dynasty of 3 Papandreou's:
- Georgios Papandreou (1888-1968), former Prime Minister of Greece;
- Andreas Papandreou (1919-1996), economist and politician, former Prime Minister of Greece;
- George Papandreou (born 1952), politician, current Prime Minister of Greece.
(see Wikipedia)
It's time for a change in Greece. Finally there can be an united coalition of the 2 parties in Greeece.

The other one is the man who is not a gentleman at all, Berlusconi, a godfather of some Itailians. He might leave office tonight.

The crisis is political. There is also an economic crisis but that's not the main problem.
The EU ignored the problems of the debt countries and now we got to pay the debt to save these countries. I heard that Italy is to big to save. If it means that the EU can't save Italy, we need help of the International Monetary Fund to solve those big problems.
For this we blame of course Berlusconi...
And ourselves of course....

Occupy

Occupy Wall Street is a protest against what? The greed on WS? The institutionalized bonus culture of more, more, more even when it gets less? The politicians who don't stop it and seem not to care? It is just a thought?

In Europe and the rest of the world there is also an occupy protest today, Amsterdam 4,000 people, The Hague 1,500.
My protest is this blog. Down with the decisiveless politicians and the greedy speculators.

Taxes

In a way you can say that raising taxes for the super rich is one way to show unity.



According to Warren Buffett raising taxes doesn't affect the willingness to invest.

addition

In my last post I asked the next question;
Why have Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and other countries entered the EU while they weren't ready economically and politically?
This is not important now.
The question is how to get out of that mess.

To translate it to the future, the question is how we can learn from it.
From example Croatia as 28th country entering the EU. Others will follow, like Serbia, Montenegro, Albania. And they all want an equal standard of living. That is poli-economically hard to do.

bankrupt

Will Greece face bankruptcy? Yes they already face it. Whether Greece goes bankrupt that's the question.
History is on Greece's side. So the public opinion will save Greece once again. In the 19th century bank loans saved Greece. Now bank capital might save Greece. Banks have to give Greece voluntary new bank loans.
There is nothing voluntary about it. If they don't, the EU financial crisis will deepen itself. Banks will have less capital, Pension funds can't pay the pensions, states will face shortages. Money will be wasted.
Europe is in crisis for nothing than money and some people who can't handle it.

Why have Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and other countries entered the EU while they weren't ready economically and politically?

Roll over Greece

I used to roll the dice
feel the fear in my enemies
eyes
Listen as the crowd would sing
"Now the old king is dead!"
"Long live the king!"

socialitics

Since May my blog has much more viewers. It's the spin off of a Malaysian based website of blogspot, http://1malaysiaautoforum.blogspot.com/
The website is about cars, it's an auto forum.
The site is impressive I must say, but I wonder what my site about socialitics subjects -(social & politics) has to do with it.

Triumph

Trump might run for president. It wasn't mentioned on the news-channel in my country. Actually it was mentioned as a comic sideline in lay back news show. Nobody knows what it was about cause we don't know much about America. Do we fellow Dutch? Donald Trump might run as a republican candidate for the presidential office. A billionaire focused on money, on the unequal trade balance with China. His only goal is to have the Chinese Yen it's real value. With or without him in the office, there's gonna be a currency war in the end.

Will Trump Triumph?

the 12 headed monster

On the frontrow from the left Uri Rosenthal, Mark Rutte, queen Beatrix, Maxime Verhagen and Ivo Opstelten. The

This row is an example how politics work. The 2 men on the outside did the inquiries in the first stage and the second stage. They got a ministerpost for their work. The man left of the queen won the election. He becomes the new minister president. Right of the queen, the big loser of the election 4 months ago. He waited for his turn and is now vice minister president.

This is really outrageous. Wilders who makes this cabinet possible supports the hidden backroom politics giving jobs to men who made this possible (the outsiders on the row mentioned). The bad thing is the lack of transparancy in the formation proces.
The average age is high ( some say 63) maybe because of the reliability of the men.
There are 3 women, to please the emancipation lobby?

How long will this awkward structure last? I think it won't last it's whole term of 4 years. Some people say 6 months, others say 4 years.

crisis

Referring to the previous 2 posts, the Christian congress was emotional for many people. The minister of foreign affairs was even tearfully in his last speech to persuade the voters to vote yes for the agreement. He was one of the negotiators. It was in his personal interest that there was a huge yes, 68% is not enough to say it´s overwhelming. Something happened on the congress. Their party is still alive. The question is if they can get protest-votes back . The next election in March 2011 will be the next indication. The Christians are in crisis.

Today the weather was fine. Maybe the last day above the 20 degrees C. Again I didn't cycle. My whole hobby is in a crisis. What to do?

congress

The congress of the Christian party has spoken. 68% in pro coalition with VVD and the party of Wilders.
2 Members of parliament voted against the proposal. They doubt what to do. I can understand these 2 people. When you have certain values than it's problematic to support a cabinet with a party which is against these values.
Next step is what the 2 people who lead the 32% inside the Christian party do.

This country will be divided by the political controversy about Islam.
Wilders talked for an hour in Berlin  about his ideas. Ideas? Well only one idea. His party PVV is an one issue party. It's all about Islam. He now compares it with communism and national socialism. Insiders in Wilders' party call even socialism as the evil in politics.
And of course he made his followers in Berlin shiver from his views about the future. He plays his role as a prophet,

agreement

After  111 days the negotiators made a compromise how to govern Holland. Now the Christian party has to agree upon the compromise.
Sad day for us, beautiful day for the followers of politics. It's gonna be a slap stick, a show, something to follow from a distance to see the mistakes made.

In the last 100 days people not belonging to the inner circle of the negotiators and party members didn't get any information about what's going to happen. Public opinion was on a holiday because there was hardly any detailed news about what was happening. These were the closed doors, the backroom politics Wilders talked about. Now he's part of it. Never talk again about these backroom politics, mister Wilders!

The parties of this minority in parliament has to approve the agreement. This is a slap in the face of democracy. A minority rules Holland. A minority decides on the faith of the nation.
It might be cancelled however a name for the next cabinet will be Rutte-Verhage.  Are these 2 courageous and overconfident men the henchmen of the wizard of the political right wing?

Who knows, the agreement is not yet public and the parties didn't judge it. Saturday everything will be clarified. There is an opera about these political exciting days.... the tenors, alts just sing Yes, yes, No, Yes, no, no. Movies could also be made out of this comedy of political life.

I hear disapproving voices about the in political situation in the Works Council, on the work-floor. I only heard one voter for Wilders. I don't understand why these people disapprove the attitude of the voters for Wilders. The municipality has to accept that there will be cuts in public spending. So we got to take advantage of the negative news. This must not be a threat.

c*mm*n*c*t**n

We had the State of the Union yesterday. The so called Prinsjesdag
On this day the queen had her speech from the Throne.
In this speech the plans of the Cabinet were unfolded. Sad news because the Netherlands has to cut expenses drastically. It will hurt people's spending power. Some more, others less. Of course they take the easy targets first and that are the public spending on health-care, children care, inurement in our society of foreigners, people care, civil services and civil servants. In the next 4 years the expenses have to be cut with 18 trillion Euro!

The new cabinet isn't installed yet. The parties are still negotiating. Maybe the orthodox Christian right wing with 2 seats in parliament will support the new cabinet. It's a rumor. I thought of it and wrote about earlier.

As I am in the civil service I'm supposed not to like it. Do I? No not really. I like a better leaner civil service. That means a smaller one. We need to do the same with less means, meaning a more effective service.
Management has to monitor work-processes more closely. Management has to be on the job when real important decisions have to be made. A unit-manager has more decision-power than just an advisor and the team-leader. In my unit they talk for more than a year about adjustment of the system - work on the department I worked for. Now it comes to an halt? Why didn't management intervene? Seems to be a case of bad communication.
In fact I once said in this blog that I don't like the word c*mm*n*c*t**n.

books

The 3 parties who cancelled the negotiations 2 times are talking again.
The party who sacrificed one of their negotiators goes back to the table to negotiate.
The informer can only warn the parties not fail another time.
It's now 3 months after the elections and nothing happened.
Wilders has a wild-card and he plays the card as someone who doesn't know the rules of the game. I think he gambles, like the the old Russian woman in Dostojevski's the Gambler. In the end she lost everything.
Why don't the political parties tell him the rules? Remind him what the rules are. Then we'll have slap sticks and Geert Wilders is the man in bonus.

On September 11 mr. Wilders will come to the 911 ceremony in NYC. He will speak there and will say probably something which is the opinion of himself and his movement. He does twitter as well. Today he twittered that the plan of a reference in Florida to burn the Koran is not a good plan.
Burning books is a symptom of the growing dissatisfaction among the natives. If you are going to burn books, there are so many books which could be burned. The environmentalists wil have a problem with book burning and not only them.

heart

Wilders is eating the confessional conservative heart out of the political nation. He is minimizing the conservative party. He's playing as a predator with his prey. It's funny to see how he sees politics. It's astonishing how the informer of the parties lets it all happen.
The confessionals are eager to govern the nation. They sacrificed the second negotiator as the well known lamb to please their God.

But in this confessional party there are also other religions present. Wilders is against their believe. At least in Holland. So he creates tension in society. We can't use that. It's a civilized world now but if we gonna expel people because of their religion or opinion it's not so friendly anymore.
Maybe he still lives in the past when his father was young. The seeds may be even sown back in an earlier past of his family. Read in Wikipedia some about Geert Wilders. It is intriguing.

Today it's September 7. This week real work started again. Meetings with the Works Council, with the director, courses to keep knowledge up to date.
The workload increases in my job but also on other departments. My old department has a shortage of employees. In the summer-period several chose to work elsewhere. From one person it is said that he could leave because he argues decisions of the team-leader. It is a sad story.

On the 16th my old department has planned a birthday party for those who had their birthday in the past year. It was told when we had a meeting with the former department. In the morning we just received a mail that my new department planned a trip with a dinner. A kind of teambuilding.
I'm not so keen on parties so these are planned well.

Another party is tonight, I wanna say happy 68th birthday to Fennie Brouwer. Fennie I send you my heart.

Politics

It's almost 3 months ago when we had elections and still we don't have a new cabinet.
It's a bit complicated and the different parties are not quite honest to themselves, to the voters, to democracy and the rules we have in our democracy.
The game is played by amateurs: Wilders, Rutte and Verhagen. The leaders of the 3 parties which have a 1 seat mayority.
Now one party can't guarantee that all their members will vote in the line of the cabinet.
This is for Wilders a reason to quit negotiators.

In the Conservative party there are 3 member who can't go with the line set by the 3 negotiators.
Wilders want these 3 to sign a statement in which they promise to vote with the party.
This is forbidden in my country. Every Parlementarian should vote for themselves, what they think is wise. Not what the party thinks.
Wilders and his followers will be in the opposition and will criticize the new cabinet in every combination.

Paulus converted himself from a prosecutor of christians into a follower of Christ.  Can Wilders change himself? I don't think so.

formation

Saturday I woke up at 7 am and sleep drunk I heard a part of the news.
A week of new negotiations between right wing parties seem to reach a final agreement in which 3 parties find themselves.
2 right wing parties will form a minority Cabinet and a third party will support them to come to a majority. The third party tolerates the minority. This ultra right wing party was against the toleration policy which they saw as something of the left wing.

This opens for the ultra right party (it's the movement of Wilders) possibilities not taking responsibilities and segregating Dutch society. A minority cabinet is unheard.

Is there nothing we can do? More people like Giovanca Ostiana could make a difference. Giovanca is a singer from the Antilles but she can express her opinion in an overwhelming way. Giovanca tells about experiences in her daily life.

In the blue Monday post of June 13 I was completely wrong. Hopefully with all, but certainly with the outcome of the formation of a new cabinet if it's a deal.
The biggest loser and the winner of the elections can use the party they more or less spit on. That's dirty politics. Sometimes it is really dirty.