BĂSESCU BECOMES AWARE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF DOMESTIC ENTREPRENEURS "Allegedly", adverb

I call it a "pretext", I don't use expressions such as "supposedly", or "allegedly".

My vocabulary is more limited, it's not that poetic - it would be hard for me to come up with an image like comparing the domestic investors with the Carpathian mountains, the Danube or the Black Sea.

On the other hand, the use of "allegedly" seems insidious to me, an attempt at dodging an honest statement: "No, major investors are not the ones who will turn the Romanian economy around."

Just as evasively, the president is suggesting that the major investors he is speaking about are the multinationals.

What he is saying makes sense - domestic entrepreneurs should be encouraged, because they are the vector of our hopes for economic growth.

Romgaz has just been privatized.

So has Nuclearelectrica.

There is almost nothing left to privatize.

Now that nothing is left for the small domestic investors, Traian Băsescu has the revelation that it is a mistake placing your hope in the major foreign investors.

It is the end of 2013.

Băsescu needed eight years of presidential mandate, to come to that epiphany.

Why didn't he say this in 2005 ?

They say "it's better late than never".

But in this particular case it is too late.

Romania's economic development depends exclusively on multinationals.

In every area - industry, agriculture, banks, finance, telecommunications, transports, trade.

Under the pretext of privatization (in other words, "allegedly"), the fate of our economy was handed over to the multinationals.

And now that it's done, we realize it was a mistake.

Bravo!

Encouraging the domestic investor is a good idea, but I just can't figure out why any initiative in that regard seems to be promoted by compromised politicians.

In 1997, Viorel Cataramă, initiated a law which would grant equal rights to domestic investors, in an attempt to eliminate the privileges granted to foreigners.

The law didn't pass.

The stain of the SAFI-FMOA lay on his forehead and it was offensive to support him, even though his cause was just in that particular case.

The same thing happens to Corneliu Vadim Tudor - extremism, chauvinism, and boorishness damn any correct ideas they endorse.

The same applies to Dan Voiculescu. The fact that he is tainted because he was a member of the communist apparatus of oppression destroys the validity of any of his actions.

As soon as they become compromised, politicians remember the fair notion idea of supporting domestic investors.

Whoever endorses the idea, is inherently considered to be either an anti-Semite, or a member of the political police, or a boorish crook.

And now, one of "Băsescu's people".

A total compromise.

And then we have Lucian Boia who comes and tells us that Romanians are pathetic.

We despise ourselves and we become weak merely because we don't respect ourselves, but our weakness is also confirmed by the politicians who do everything to prevent us from being successful, (to say nothing of corruption), but also because our economy in general is dependent on the multinationals.

A few years ago, I was admiring the foundations of my own home, when an old woman on the sidewalk exclaimed: "Damn crook!"

I turned to face her and she continued: "Well, who else builds something like this, at times like these? Only a crook would!"

I cringed.

There was no way I could get through to her to convince her that wasn't the case.

All major Romanian investors are considered shady.

Self-hate makes us easy to control.

It's too late, Mr. President.

You should have kept your eyes on your people, all this time.

Except, you only pretended you did so.