Being a Romanian, Dragu wants to work for pennies; cut her wage, then!

If she had stuck to announcing that the minimum wage would not be raised until an impact study was done, the new Finance minister Anca Dragu Paliu would have simply confirmed that she is part of a technocratic government, but she had to go and make a fool of herself, mentioning that Brazilians, Russians, Indians, Chinese and South-Africans "are poor and numerous and they all know how to do things for 2 lei, they are doing things that Romanians haven't been doing for quite some time".

For quite some time...

Well, for quite some time, my dear Dragu, "Romanians" have been a part of the European Union.

Brazilians, Russians, Indians, Chinese and South-Africans are not in the European Union.

They are in a different community, which is called BRICS, and BRICS is not in the European Union; I mean, it's another thing, you know what I mean?

And it's not another thing just in name, but also, because it has different salary levels, prices and living standards.

Look, Azerbaijan is not a part of BRICS, nor of the European Union, which means that over there, any small-time hustler can buy a whole 100-people village for 50 Euros.

Every Azeri citizen in that village is willing to work not for one leu, but for essentially ten times less than that, which Indians have not been doing for quite some time now.

On the other hand, the worst paid Indian workers in the Indian compensation system (and not some corporate slave), is paid worse than any American worker in the US.

Because the United States of America are something else than the European Union, and than the BRICS group, and then Azerbaijan, and like Borat says, something else than Kazakhstan, which has more potassium.

If "Romanians" were to follow the "best" example implied by the new finance minister, meaning Azerbaijan, then they would work like the Azeris, for one ban, i.e. a tenth of a leu.

The problem is that on average, after three days, Romania would be depopulated; on average, humans can only live for three days without water.

"Romanians" are humans.

If a "Romanian" earned three bani in three days, then they couldn't buy a bottle of water on time, because it's going to cost three lei and they will have already died of thirst for 297 days, by the time they could afford to buy it.

Thus, my dear Dragu...

Perhaps, for consistency's sake, the Cioloş government should have kept Andrei Baciu as Health Minister and Cristina Guseth as Justice Minister.