Армения - это ты --- Hayastan@ du es --- Armenia is you (HD)

[bell-the-cat]

Re: Армения - это ты --- Hayastan@ du es --- Armenia is you (HD)

An indication from the UK, comments from the ruling party that the higher rate of tax (50%) levied on people earning over £150,ooo per year should be abolished. I've no idea what the working-age population is in UK but this higher rate of tax apparently affects 320,000 people. UK population is @ 60,000,000. If say 20,000,000 working/eligible to work that gives an elite of 0.016%.
Go figure, Bell and maybe comment on UK churches/heritage/politics/history/blahblah.

If you think you are such an expert on the UK, share your wisdom on a forum dedicated to UK matters.

[hrai]

Re: Армения - это ты --- Hayastan@ du es --- Armenia is you (HD)

If you think you are such an expert on the UK, share your wisdom on a forum dedicated to UK matters.

That's exactly what I was hinting that you should do..................

[LadyLazarus]

Re: Армения - это ты --- Hayastan@ du es --- Armenia is you (HD)

But what of the 90% whose lives are not reflected in the propaganda? How do you think they will feel watching it - the old, the children, the poor, everyone not living in Yerevan, everyone who does not want to behave like the lobotomised clones depicted in it? What right have they to be so disenfranchised? Have they no place in this 20th anniversary celebration because their lives go against the official propaganda?

This video does not "celebrate" Armenia - it is actually a spit in the face for most of Armenia's population.

Bell, it's just a song; no need to get worked up over it.

And besides, to paraphrase Abe Lincoln, let me say that you can [please] some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not [please] all of the people all of the time. It's unrealistic to expect this (or any other piece of propaganda of a similar type to reflect absolutely everyone's situation/viewpoint/etc. If the crooks and bandits have risen to the heights which allow them to dictate how Armenia is to be represented, even if it is in this type of silly propaganda, it's because they have been able to exhibit more aggression in reaching those heights than their meeker, marginalized, and more law-abiding counterparts (the majority you speak of). Survival of the fittest in a new, capitalism-based system; Armenia needs to adjust. We can have whatever opinions we want regarding the "elites" of present-day Armenia, but as long as the majority of the population sits back and allows these people to rule and represent them, they will have to accept the consequences. Cruel thought, I know--reality nonetheless.

[bell-the-cat]

Re: Армения - это ты --- Hayastan@ du es --- Armenia is you (HD)

That's exactly what I was hinting that you should do..................

The difference is that you know nothing much about the UK, and I seem to know much more than you about Armenia.

Though, your approach seems similar to that of Armenian beurocrats - whenever anything wrong is pointed out to them, their stock response is to say that such and such a country is (allegedly) worse than Armenia so there is nothing to be concerned about, allowing the wrongness to continue unchecked. It's an "I might stink a bit, but my neighbour is even smellier - so get him to wash first!" excuse to avoid ever getting clean. Look at this recent example, a report about the problems on the Armenian side of the Bagratashen border crossing between Armenia and Georgia: http://hetq.am/eng/opinion/3694/ When confronted, the officials respond every time by saying everything is actually Georgia's fault, or everything is worse in Georgia, when in reality everything on the Georgian side was working perfectly and all the problems were created on the Armenian side.

[Mikael]

Re: Армения - это ты --- Hayastan@ du es --- Armenia is you (HD)

I love this song!!!!! We are ARMENIA!!

[Samael]

Re: Армения - это ты --- Hayastan@ du es --- Armenia is you (HD)

Cool except I didn't understand any of that.

[yerazhishda]

Re: Армения - это ты --- Hayastan@ du es --- Armenia is you (HD)

The difference is that you know nothing much about the UK, and I seem to know much more than you about Armenia.

Though, your approach seems similar to that of Armenian beurocrats - whenever anything wrong is pointed out to them, their stock response is to say that such and such a country is (allegedly) worse than Armenia so there is nothing to be concerned about, allowing the wrongness to continue unchecked. It's an "I might stink a bit, but my neighbour is even smellier - so get him to wash first!" excuse to avoid ever getting clean. Look at this recent example, a report about the problems on the Armenian side of the Bagratashen border crossing between Armenia and Georgia: http://hetq.am/eng/opinion/3694/ When confronted, the officials respond every time by saying everything is actually Georgia's fault, or everything is worse in Georgia, when in reality everything on the Georgian side was working perfectly and all the problems were created on the Armenian side.

For ever how much I would disagree with you on anything else, this seems to be a pretty apt description of the current situation in Armenia.