The  recent Portuguese PSD-CDS/PP coalition Government received a heavy burden to be shared with all the Portuguese people. Eventhough the Portuguese people don’t have the complete knowledge needed to answer the main question: “Why?”. But the following question is not easier to answer to: “To Whom?” and “What for?”.

The younger generations are completely doomed to pay for choices they will not understand and benefit for. As well as their parents and grandparents. A whole generation of working people is being sacrificed for… who knows?

The political, economic and social situation in Portugal is being very hard to deal with. For now, we are watching the meetings of the Portuguese Government with the Troika representatives, and being informed of the austerity measures the Portuguese Government is considering in order to pay the debt, to reduce the State expenses, to reinforce economic competitiveness and to reduce unemployment.

The reduction of the Unique Social Tax  is being considered as an hypothesis, but along with an increasing VTA one. The food sector will be the one to be affected, mainly the restaurants, snack bars and other food services.

The problem is that this measures will not mean a reduction in the production prices, or an increasing  employment, or even an economic boost. On the contrary.

The real business numbers are decreasing day by day and only the multinational organizations will survive. The small local business activities are condemned in a short term period.

But this is not a problem of Portugal. The  fact is that all the western world is being transformed from its inside. This is a proper occasion to remember Gustave Le Bon and Gramsci in what concerns to  Cultural Power and the relevance of the traditional social Institutions. And the danger of loosing it for “strangers”, at least supposedly.

The United Kingdom is only but one of the many examples we are going to watch through TV and the Internet. And the fact is that nothing of this is spontaneous as history taught us that there is always someone (or organization) which is behind the scene “controlling” the stage.

Someone is going  to win – as it has always happenned.