Ion Iliescu didn't manage in ten years to accept either the legitimacy or the effectiveness of the fundamental mechanisms of capitalism Those of us who imagines that Ion Iliescu might change his convictions or at least his political behavior, absorbing the elementary values of market democracy, should admit now they lost it. Over one of his typical visits, the first of this mandate, at Focsani, celebrating the National Union Day, the chief of the state annulled some of the fundamental axioms of reform and capitalism, with the tone of a man who decrees. The most serious affirmation is the one regarding the private property. The emitted sentence is of an infinitely embarrassing gratuitousness. "All this issue of the saint property at the basis of the social life is nothing but a caprice. It's not true, it came out much later." First of all, the supporters of the private property don't place it "at the origins" of the social life but at its bases. And to transform the simple hypothesis that the first monkeys (after the electoral campaign, men become monkeys again for Mr. Iliescu) looking like men were working their land "according to their possibilities" into a source of political legitimacy and action in the 21st century Europe is as stupid and grotesque as possible. Secondly, nobody today, in the civilized world, doesn't think about contesting the social character equaling the sacredness of the property. This contesting act transforms Iliescu's affirmation into an important political blunder and, unfortunately, we will be the ones to pay for. The conspiracy theme follows. The international organisms impose us the privatization of the bank system in order to favor some "non-Romanian" interests so that afterwards "we beg from the non-Romanian banks". Iliescu's explanation is delirious: the deposits constituted in the banks with foreign capital are transported "somewhere