What only few people realise is that the base note of the pin points of the union reformation was made by no one less than ... Guy Verhofstadt. At that time looking for a free position in the European Union. Guess who might have collected all the blessings if the note would have been backed up by everyone.... (an impossible scenario). It may also be clear who got the humiliations if the note was not back-uped by everyone.
Leterme was actually gifted with another surprise from the previous politicians (government). Verhofstadt did not find it necessary to, despite all the calls of intellectuals and economical teachers to provide some savings for the future, prepare for the grey golf which comes closer day by day and may be a great danger for ouir welfare. Instead, he claimed measurements to save were not necessary because the economy was doing well. But, though the economy was doing well he had to do all kinds of trics to keep his government budget in balance. So he took all kind of short-term-importance measurements without thinking about the consequences. Why should he? This were worries for the future.. if the population would chose him again as a Prime Minister... now this chances had to be as high as possible, even by making choices that were impairable with good long-term management. (But you can't blame any politician for doing that. Almost any human being with a good job will do everything to keep his ass safe.)
Among these measurements were the selling of buildings from the government (and renting them immediately back ........) and the paying of the vacation salary at the huge adminstration corpse. This way, Verhofdstadt got his budget in balance at the end of the year. But he left his successor with a very difficult task: keep his budget in balance, in a financial crisis, without losing the demographic factors
So Verhodstadt was a real liberal...
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