1, 2,3,4, can I have a little more

Entirely unconsciously and totally unintentionally, Portugal's prime minister rendered an excellent democratic service to the population when he decided to announce a substantial shift in social security payroll withholdings from employers to employees, as another austerity measure in search for an increase in productivity and employment. 

The Economist questioned whether in 15 minutes (the duration of the press announcement) Mr Passos Coelho threw away 15 months of thorough sacrifice to secure the type of social cohesion that had come to distinguish Portugal from Greece.

The threatened impact of the announced measure on millions of net salaries has generated the type of popular response which in the far future historians might come to describe as the Arab originating 4 step approach whereby civil protest typically chrystallised in the early 21st century;

1. immediate twittering, site posting and blogging severe critisism and calling upon revolt;
2. grouping and facebooking together and organize and schedule revolt;
3. an actual old fashioned physical gathering on set locations to demonstrate,

In view of the effects of steps 1 to 3, step 4 is now being engined and engineered by those that were or became serious in the preceeding events, to develop, launch, opinion poll, submit potential alternatives, now that in this case the prime minister has publicly withdrawn his initial proposition and therewith more consciously and intentionally returned a €uro 3 billion national short term cash flow matter to the self declared common sense of an electorate.

It will not happen this time ... a step 5, whereby a population as such will actually see through some sort of implementable measure that would fit their rights and collective need and I am not referring to referenda or early elections.  Instead most people will eventually come to terms with the inevitability of some alternate burdensome and plausible austerity measure for sake of the immediate future of Portugal. 

Important is however, that matters and manners which traditionally appeared to be so exclusively vested within the chambers of a political elite, to be subsequently disseminated to a population standing by on a kind of need to know basis only, are fairly surely and not so slowely evaporating and that the traditional gap is reaching a more mature width.

All together now ..  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_CvWJocY-Y