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Was, is and shall remain in favour of Maltese workers

and against Malta's membership of the European Union

WE SWEAR TO FREE MALTA FROM THE SLAVERY, COLONIALISM AND DICTATORIAL ILLEGAL EUROPEAN UNION RULE

They used to assure us that if we become members in the European Union we will be far better but facts show the contrary.

We are far worse, as we see the burdened that we have to carry because of our membership.

The first burden is the membership fee that we are paying every year because we are Union members.

This year the people shall have to pay to the Union €182,192 every day so that during the year the Maltese people shall have paid the sum of €66,500,00, according to the Government estimates itself.

During seven years of membership, the Maltese people shall have paid the Union a total amount of €376 million.

Another great burden ordered by the Union is that of the VAT tax.

VAT, apart from increasing the cost of living

* because it increases the prices of products

* and services by 18%,

* is socially unjust

* because those who have a low income

* have to pay it just the same as those who can afford to pay it.

How great is the burden of the other €478,000,000

* that the Government estimates that it is going to collect from the eco-contribution,

* another tax ordered by the Union.

Another case of a burden on the people for the Union face is that of levies or duties on products imported in our country from countries that are not in the Union.

About these products,

* the Union imposed the Common External Tariff

* or particular levies

* on products coming from certain countries,

* like shoes from China and Vietnam.

These duties and levies are very harsh,

* both because of the fact that while

* the amount from their income all goes to the Union,

* the expense to pay the Customs officers

* to collect the duties and levies

* is paid by the Maltese Government

* and in many cases of products that are not produced in our country,

* our people are paying these duties and levies

* not to protect our local industries

* but the industries of the European Union countries

* where they produce similar products as those imported from countries outside the Union.

As a result of the right of the freedom of movement

* of the Union citizens,

* our people have been burdened

* with the burden of thousands of workers

* from the Union

* that are working according to their rigth in our country

* and are taking the work of the Maltese and Gozitans.

Their number is far greater

* than the number of Maltese and Gozitans

* who went to work in the other Union countries

* after we became members,

* although the Union propagandists

* used to assur us that with membership

* foreigners will not come to take the bread of Maltese workers

* but we will go and take it in the other Union countries.

Our people have ended up with another burden

* as a result of the Union membership

* that consists in the fact

* that a number of citizens of other Union countries

* that are residing here

* is greater than the number of Maltese citizens

* that went to live in the other Union countries

* and because we have more free social services

* that there are in the other Union countries.

That is why our expense

* on these social

* and health services

* on the citizens of the other Union countries

* is greater than the expense

* that the other countries are making on the Maltese

* that go to the other Union countries.

Another really great burden that the Union has thrown on us is that of thousands of illegal immigrants that the Union forced us to open wide the doors of our country for them.

The Union forced the Maltese Government

* to repeal the obstacles that we had made since 1971

* to the granting of asylum to refugees,

* otherwise the Union would not accept our country’s membership,

* and the Government through stealth hidden from the people

* repealed these obstacles

* that were preventing the illegal immigrants

* from creating among our people,

* are a really great burden

* and a waste of human resources

* and are not doing any good for our country,

* but damage that year after year is increasing

* and with the danger of a revolt from one moment to the other.

Among the burdens that the Union brought on our people, we find that caused by the loss of thousands of jobs.

First of all it is an enormous burden on the workers

* who have lost their jobs

* because factories had to close down,

* or as a consequence of privatization

* or because of cuts in State aid

* ordered by the Union

* as happened in the Dockyard case

* or on the pretext of reforms demanded by the Union,

* as in the char-a-bancs owners case.

Apart from the hit workers,

* the unemployment caused by the loss of jobs

* means a greater burden on all our people

* because from the taxes paid by the people

* social benefits will have to be paid,

* among them those for unemployment benefits of thousands of workers

* and of the pensions that have to be paid to the other thousands

* that were forced to retire from work

* prior to reaching the normal pensionable age.

New burdens were also added on our people

* because of the Union policy

* that demands that the people pay directly

* for all the expense of the essential services

* that the State provides,

* such as the water,

* electricity

* and sewage services.

The Union is not happy that the State pays from the taxes that it collects from the people part of the expense of these services.

It wants the people to pay directly for all their expense by means of high tariffs that cover all the expense.

The capitalist ideology does not let the Union understand that when the State subsidizes these essential services, it will be in fact the people that will be making good for these subsidies through the taxes that the State collects from the people.

The State does not pay itself but everything that it pays comes from that which it collects from the people.

While the amount of the subsidies that the State saves from paying is paid directly by the people, the State never decreases the burden of the taxes from the people by the same amount of subsidies that the State saves from paying.

It is enough to say that while last year the Government estimated that it was going to collect €804, 700,000 from Income Tax, this year it is estimating that it is going to collect €856,700,000, that is €52 million more, and from the tax on the sale of oil products, the Government estimates that it is going to get €96, 000,000.

All these burdens give us an indication of how our people are worse with European Union membership, at the same time as the national debt exploded to more than €4 billion.

Shameful is the press release by the Minister for Foreign Affairs

* that the Maltese Government would be ready to accede to a request

* by the United States of America

* for Maltese to be sent to Afghanistan

* to help in the administration of the country.

First of all

* because we would be exposing them

* to the danger of being killed,

* as has happened during the last eight days

* where eight American civilians have lost their lives

* in a suicide attack.

Secondly, the Americans are not only in Afghanistan without being wanted by many Afghanis, but it appears as if that country is theirs and that they have a right to say whom they want to help them control the country’s people.

If help is required, it should be the Afghan Government to ask for it, not the Americans.

There is another important reason for the objection to the Maltese Minister press release.

In Afghanistan,

* the United States

* and the military alliance NATO

* are fighting a war.

If Malta accepts the request

* to help in the administration of Afghanistan,

* Malta would be partnering

* with the United States

* and NAO in the war.

This step breaches the neutrality of Malta,

* and the Maltese Government is not right

* to bring the excuse that the Maltese involvement

* is going to be in the civil and not in the military sector.

In the eyes of the world

* which is against the American interference in Afghanistan,

* Malta will also be taking part in the war

* that they are making.

It is enough that Malta is already paying its share in financial help that the European Union is giving that country, without any discussion and approval by the Maltese Parliament.

It is a great shame that the people come to know about this now

* from a word that slipped from the Minister for foreign Affairs

* when he tried with great effort to justify the Maltese Government decision

* to accede to the request for help in Afghanistan by the American Government.

I am very worried because of the thousands of illegal immigrants that are in our country,

* and I know of people who like me,

* are very worried about this threat

* that the illegal immigrants are to the public order

* and public health,

* and about the fact that they are an unnecessary financial burden on the country

* and the cause of social tension for our people.

In September 2006,

* I had attended for a public meeting

* that the Prime Minister had held at the Auberge de Castille,

* and I asked him a few small questions

* about the illegal immigrants in our country,

* and asked him to give me clear and short answers.

But the Prime Minister made a long homily that took about 20 minutes.

He started from the arrival of St Paul in our country

* about 2,000 years ago,

* and he talked long

* about the sinking of the ship that was taking the prisoner from Tarsus to Rome

* and on the good manner that our forefathers

* welcomed the Apostle of the peoples.

Notwithstanding all the useless and empty words that he said, the Prime Minister did not answer my questions.

These were the three small questions that I had asked him:                                                                      

* (1) How many illegal immigrants are in our country?                                                                              

* (2) What is the expense that has to be paid every year for these illegal immigrants to be kept here?

* (3) How long will they remain in our country before they are repatriated?                                            

They were questions that one should answer in a few minutes.

But the Prime Minister played for time, told a long story, and did not answer them.

I am of the opinion that the questions are still relevant today.

Not only, but they are more relevant

* because the illegal immigrants problem

* continued to increase every year

* and their number continued to ever increase.

Therefore I am again making them

* and ask the Prime Minister to answer them

* because the Maltese people have a right

* to have full information

* about this illegal immigrants’ problem

* that is worrying them as it is worrying me.

More and more the people are getting worried and troubled when they hear worrying news about trouble and revolts that the illegal immigrants are frequently causing in other countries in Europe.

Because we do not know whether we have criminals among the thousands of illegal immigrants that are in our country.

We know for sure that they are not happy

* with the conditions that they have

* in the detention centres where they are kept,

* as well as they are unhappy

* because they do not have many work opportunities

* in our country,

* and want to be allowed

* to go to the other European countries,

* but we do not allow them.

That is why we are inviting some big trouble

* or a great revolt from them,

* who are in a greater number

* than we have soldiers and policemen together.

I and many others like me who are greatly worried by the very dire situation, expect that this time the Prime Minister will answer the questions that he is being asked.

Thursday 21 January 2010

The Maltese people want Parliament to take steps forthwith to curb immigration in our country

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