COMMENTARY: LET THEM BURN COW DUNG!
Edik Baghdasaryan
yun/
2010/03/04 | 11:43
Humanity has existed from time immemorial and during the past
20,000-30,000 years gas was never burnt. Now look at what’s happening.
People in Armenia are all emotional; they want to burn gas. Go to
your homes and burn cow dung."
The above statement was made by RoA MP Vardan Postanjyan during a
press conference after it was declared that the price of gas would
be going up.
After years of serving in the Armenian National Assembly, it would
appear that MP Postanjyan, an economist by profession has hit upon
the winning formula – burn dung. He is one of the MP’s representing
those who are ready to burn dung.
If you voted for the man, then get ready to burn dung.
Tomorrow you just might hear him say – why do you need to eat meat?
Eat bread instead.
Or – it’s spring. There’s grass growing in the meadows. Eat grass.
The day after another MP might announce – Why do you need to wear
clothes. Cover your privates with a fig leaf and walk the streets.
The list of possible thing to do without is endless – the internet,
the telephone…
This is the advice given by our parliamentarians, today, tomorrow
and the day after.
For you see, they don’t have to work to earn a living and put food
on the table. They really don’t have a clue about how you and I and
average citizens in Armenia really live. They live on a different
plane entirely, removed from us mortals.
They have already started to embellish the gates of hell with gold
inlay, to tile the floors and to build jacuzzis there. Why? Because
they’ve already commanded all the lofty and valuable heights here,
in this world.
The minister of economy claimed last week that Armenia had weathered
the financial crisis with honor. I say that the crisis will strike the
heaviest blow against Armenia in three months. If the minister wants
to know why I’m convinced of this, I can give him my calculations.
But the minister believes we’ve survived the crisis and are pulling
free of its clutches. Why? Because he came across an article somewhere
on the internet, read it, and then made the assumption that we made
it through and with dignity. How convenient.
However, perhaps the time has come to pull our heads out of the
internet and plant our feet back in the real world.
We can only hope that the road ahead doesn’t lead us to another
dung heap.