The executive neuron

But what does it matter to you what the president says, Mr. Ponta?!

The USL got 32-33%, in the local elections, and PSD got 10%, - that makes 43%.

Băsescu doesn't have traction with the masses anymore - PDL only got 15%.

The president is a deadweight around the party's neck, so he has less than 15%.

He hasn't got any power left.

He's barely breathing.

He's laughing, but his laughter is forced.

You, Mr. Ponta have three times the power that Băsescu has.

You are a giant.

How can it be? When you're such a giant, you're complaining that that little man is giving you grief?!

You've got a popularity rate of 43% and spend 75% of your time about what the 15% are doing?

Doesn't that seem like a disproportionate response?

An alternative explanation would be that your government only has a single neuron.

If your neuron is focused on one subject, then, obviously, it can't focus on a second subject; hence it spends 75% of its time on the first issue and 25% on the second.

Let's see what that neuron does 75% of the time:

"We would like to inform you that at this moment, there is an ongoing legal dispute between the Romanian government and the Romanian president, concerning who is in charge, according to the law, with representing Romania on the meeting of the European Council, which will take place at the end of July".

This is an excerpt from your right of reply (intended to rebut the accusations of plagiarism), published on June 19th, by "Nature", which had previously issued the accusations.

Being preoccupied with representing Romania in Brussels, the neuron did not notice that the reunion would be taking place in June (this very month), not in July.

It would have taken one more neuron to do that.

Just as, in order to avoid the exquisite pleasure which "Nature" magazine took in tearing apart the numerous English language mistakes in the right of reply of the Romanian government, it would have taken a third neuron, a polyglot one this time.

But in fact, this is not the issue at hand, but the fact that the dispute over who gets to represent Romania in Brussels takes up 75% of their meetings and as a result, they have to postpone the privatizations, just for a little while, because they just can't stand the barbs of the little man.

If the neuron also had memory, then Mr. Ponta would remember that the issue of the representation in Brussels only became a dispute because he made it into one.

Had he not done that, the little man would have just gone over there, laughed out loud for a while, prance around, and he would have returned just as clueless as he left.

So, Mr. Ponta, 75% of the time, your government was doing what it should not have been doing.

On the other hand, Mr. Ponta does your neuron know what the agenda of the reunion in Brussels is?

Does the neuron know what is Romania's agenda over there?

Where you even curious enough to find that Romania's representative will not have one single word to speak over there and that they have no speech scheduled?

No, I don't think you had the time to do that.

Because in the remaining 25% of your time you were dealing with the plagiarism issue.

Which is very exhausting for neurons, most likely.

In fact, I like Ponta and I don't like privatization.

In fact, I don't like privatization made at the order of the IMF; I don't like it when it is ill timed, at a time when the markets are down, which means that the we would be selling giants for a pittance; and in fact I'm not sure that the privatization of state owned companies leads to general welfare - I haven't seen it happen yet.

Thus, I like the fact that Ponta puts it on hold, even for a little while.

So I am happy he's only got one neuron.

Perhaps the Alpha male also admires him for that, in secret.

Perhaps, in reality, they are actually working together.

I am all by myself and I am thinking about lake residences and the relationship of Florin Georgescu with the IMF...