The satisfaction that PM Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu verbally crushed Mihai Gâdea, during the interview he gave him two days ago, on Antena 3, permeates the pro-government press and the internet.
It is a minor one.
Gâdea crushes himself, every time he goes on TV.
His endless ranting, the rudimentary attempts at manipulation and his rigid thinking (which as I understand it, besides his limited intellectual abilities, is furthered by his education as part of a religious sect), make him a curiosity which is similar to a miasma.
There's nothing to crush about him.
He's so inconsistent, he might as well be gas.
Paradoxically, my disappointment comes from PM Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu, who was incoherent, pharisaic, often times hypocritical and even snarky.
"The first way in which we can restart the Romanian economy is consumption", the prime minister said, and, naturally, Gâdea did not even blink and he moved on to other topics.
It would be too much to ask Gâdea to have heard about Keynes and completely absurd to ask him to have heard about the decline of the credibility of Keynesianism, because of the global crisis (did he at least realize the disaster of the Tăriceanu government?, no, that's not the case).
Obviously, Gâdea did not notice that Ungureanu severely self-contradicted himself when he claimed that, when it comes to the six billion Euros in European grants which are at stake, "discussions concerning the economy and taxation lose their importance".
Because according to the statements of the prime-minister, the European grants would be granted for agricultural, cohesive and structural policies.
In other words, for things other than consumption.
When I say that Ungureanu contradicts himself, I knowingly take the risk of considering him as being of good faith, because otherwise, If I believed that he kn