Marcelo Durão praises job … But why ?! – Daily News – Lisbon

With so much exciting news in this wonderful but sick world almost let go unnoticed a slight disturbance that although minimal, explains so much …

When ten days ago news was to have the former president of European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso accepted the position of chairman in London at Goldman Sachs, have spread in the newspapers acids comments, angry tone, the verb revolts. . And with obvious reason

But the same day our President decided to pour water on the boil:. “For Doctor Barroso, it is to reach the top of business life and the top of business life has much merit, as it has reached the top in science, university, culture, the arts. Therefore, it should naturally be recognized, “he said.

What a contrast compared to the statements of the French President, our partner in the same European Union that Durão led to the decline “is morally unacceptable that José Manuel Barroso will join the Goldman Sachs,” said Francois Hollande for, then, to explain the charge described, incidentally, as a defect of character: “He spent ten years at the head of the Commission. Goldman Sachs was at the center of the subprime crisis and helped the Greek government to make up the accounts of Greece. “

Why Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, a man who has managed your life always carefully not to fall into suspected incompatibilities, sees merit in the new employment Durão? How does the Portuguese President, who has always been financially transparent and unambiguous, defends public recognition for those who shuffles political apples and oranges professionals? What makes this man, who would not sound unreasonable if debitasse the cavaquista aphorism “to be more honest than I have born twice”, to be compliant with the political and financial promiscuity? …

I look at the sentence. I reread. Goldman Sachs is to the President, “the top of the business life.” This is the touch … not honest, honest, affectionate Marcelo manages to avoid admiration when speaking of Goldman Sachs. “The top,” he says. Something almost unattainable, placed there on high, to the divine level.

Neither practicing Catholic, full of enthusiasm for the social conscience of the Pope Francis, subscriber criticism of the Church to the crimes of the capitalist financial world, looks Goldman Sachs without blurt admiration, respect and even seems, reverential fear.

There are too many good people complacent impotence, cowardice, blindness, ignorance, need or hypocrisy with the brazen face of the purest and destructive bad. And it’s also why this world, wonderful but with malignant disease, not cure.