Civil Society Network is strongly encouraging everyone who cares about good governance to take the following action: instead of being bought off by a measly, one-off government cheque this week, donate the petty cash to your favourite charity as an act of protest.
CSN wishes to draw attention to the small cheque that is being handed out to families this week. While these might be useful in the short-term to some people, the truth is that they will have no meaningful impact on the standard of living of Maltese families in the long run. It would have been more fruitful had the Government invested the sum of the cheques to eradicate the prevalent inequalities that plague our societies and improve the standard of living generally.
Instead, the Government has shown that it prefers issuing one-off cheques amounting to petty cash in a populistic fashion. CSN insists that there were more prudent actions available to the Government and therefore we encourage the cheque to be given to your favourite charity in protest of populistic, begging-bowl politics.
