Energy slavery

In civilized countries children are taught that people are born free and they are masters of their own fate.

If they succeed - bravo! Such citizens are useful to society. If they fail - it is only their own fault! The humane state will only give them the social minimum.

Elsewhere it might be like that, but in Bulgaria our freedom is in danger. It is falling slave to electricity and central heating. The last illusions of survival are dying out with the changes in the energy sector law.

Money will be demanded from you without anyone asking whether you have spent anything. Apart from that, of course, one will have to pay for what one has used. And for everything additional that the monopolists with human faces imagine.

Bulgarians may be born free but they will soon be chained to the radiators and the wall plugs in their homes like a gladiator in his cell. The enslaved will have to pay even if they have to emigrate to Mars together with all their families.

Are they going to pay? Not at all! Even the bailiff cannot take the last pair of shoes from the person who does not have anything. For this reason, sooner or later liberation will come after slavery.

Trud

The president started the campaign on friendly terms

After Todor Zhivkov, Petar Stoyanov may apply for the title of Man of the People and win deservedly. The former First loved immediate contacts with the voters, and was giving treats to sportspeople and people of culture with the meals of kachamak and Botevgrad banitsa. He was constantly repeating that he came from the people, and he liked to give Bulgarians five leva additionally to their salaries on a periodic basis. In addition, he was invariably present at the stand during parades on national holidays on May 1, September 9 and November 7.

How is Petar Stoyanov proceeding? In a similar way, and not only during the presidential campaign. For five years in the president's office, Stoyanov toured villages and hamlets, calming the people by saying that he would argue to buy out the potato harvest, tobacco and other crops. The race for a second mandate is starting again with the promise that no excessive spending will be made on hotels - Stoyanov will spend the night with an old friend from Bansko. On friendly terms.

And as he is going to sleep in domestic conditions, he by all means will be treated as the old Bulgarian custom has it. So he will also be saving from his daily travel allowance.

Because of this, it is time that the evil-wishers stop peeping in his campaign cash box, stop asking where the money for it is coming from and what he is spending it on. Compared with his expenditures, those of his opponents seem like Rockefeller bills - hotels, cocktails, luncheons and dinners.

Monitor

Make an MP work so that he can teach you how to do it yourself

It's quite possible that our Parliament migrates altogether to virtual reality if the revolutionary proposition of a Stara Zagora MP is adopted. Last week, he suggested that SMS be sent to the MPs who are out of the plenary hall to come to the plenary hall and vote. The flight of the MP's imagination though did not stop there. He offered the possibility to pass laws through the Internet. The MPs often had work outside the Parliament and the technical opportunity for distant voting already exists.

Yes!

This is the way that the National Assembly should be going. Parliament has already detached itself from reality recently, so going thoroughly into virtual reality would be a very logical step. Sessions could be cancelled altogether so that MPs can do their other jobs in peace. A parliamentary chat line could be established. In their spare time the MPs can go to www.parliament.bg and write some joke about the draft law under discussion. Each MP will have their nickname so that log in will be easier. For example, the parliamentary chairman, Ognian Gerdjikov, could be _speaker, and Plamen Panayotov, the chairman of the parliamentary group National Movement Simeon II, can be kaiZer. An example a chat session would be:

(Gerdjikov says that a draft law will be passed)
_speaker: let's vote 4 it!
(Panayotov thanks the speaker and tells the MPs to vote For)
kaiZer: 10x, _speaker! Yellow vote green ;-))

The parliamentary groups could change their online names because it is somehow not suitable to call oneself Coalition National Movement Simeon II. Yellow Hooligans would sound much better! The Bulgarian Socialist Party could enter the Internet revolution as Red Alert, and the MPs from the Union of Democratic Forces could unite themselves around Nadezhda Mihailova and Ivan Kostov and take on a fairy tale name - The Beauty and The Blue.

Virtual democracy would be really nice if only it weren't a justification for the MPs' laziness. This is a nice illustration of the proverb, "Make the lazy person work, so that he can teach you how to do it yourself."

Kapital