LYING THROUGH HIS TEETH

Todos os protestos e todas as palavras se esgotaram e o desatino-má-moeda toma conta da palavra. Portugal apodrece. Só nos resta suspirar?: «Mr Sócrates proposes to cut the deficit to 8.3 per of GDP this year and to below 3 per cent by 2013. “I have cut the deficit before. I know what the risks are and I know how to do it again,” he said, referring to 2005-2007 when his centre-left government reduced the deficit from 6.1 to 2.6 per cent of GDP in less than three years.»