Parliament Closure Extended
The Parliament of Shalampax was supposed to reopen today, February 2, 2010, after its one-month shutdown for National Democracy Month and the subsequent one-day extension to compensate parliamentarians for already being off on Anson Jones Day. That was what was supposed to happen, but the reopening of Parliament has been postponed.
Totally out of character for him, Manexposinghimself, Prime Minister of Shalampax, read some news while on his extended vacation. He stumbled on an article reporting that, on December 30, 2009, the Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, shut down or, in the parliamentary vernacular, prorogued the Canadian Parliament until March 3, 2010.
Rather than embarrass Canada by making it obvious that Shalampax is a much more democratic country, Manexposinghimself has unilaterally decided to show solidarity with Stephen Harper by preventing Shalampaxian parliamentarians from debating in Parliament’s chamber or in parliamentary committees until March 3.
Despite parliamentarians being locked out of the Chamber of Parliament, the government’s Funds Facilitator will continue to pick citizens’ pockets in order be able to continue to pay the high salaries of Manexposinghimself and the other Members of Parliament.
I’m rather surprised that Shalampaxians have not learned not to put any money in their pockets – especially when they leave home. I put mine in my sock – pickpockers don’t stoop that low here.
@David: They’ll get their money somehow. If people put their money in their socks, the government will install grates in the hallways designed to snare shoes. Then the government Funds Facilitator would lie down on the floor pretending to be drunk while he picks people’s socks. Actually, he or she probably wouldn’t have to pretend to be drunk, but that’s another matter.
The point is, the government will get their money somehow. We might as well make it easy for them or they will make life difficult for us.