Dug dobili bez para ostali
Debt Repaid, and Still No Money
Ovo djelo nastalo je tada,kad je stigla Sanadera Vlada.Na TV-u mi gledamo sadaiz sveg glasa viče naša Vlada.Dio duga da bi nama dala,za izbore što je obećala.Ali sporo vrši obećanje,valjda čeka da nas bude manje.Jer za onog tko vječno zadrijema,po zakonu mirovine nema.Ovaj problem Vladi baš ne smeta,riješit će ga za desetak ljeta.Financijski ministar će glasno:para nema, to je valjda jasno.Da podmire mirovinske daće,ne bi Vlada imala za plaće.Na to Vlada veli malo tiše,rješenja će svima da napiše.Da dug vrati penzićima sada,dva modela nudi naša Vlada.Prvi model, toliko da znate,na dva ljeta, na četiri rate.Al' da ne bi postali tajkuni,polovicom svoju kasu puni.
This poem was created, let me explain,when Sanader's Government began to reign.Now on TV we watch and hear it plain:our Government shouts out with might and mainthat part of what is owed it would repay,as it had promised on election day.But it is slow to keep the promise made:perhaps it's waiting till our numbers fade.For he who falls into eternal sleephas, by the law, no pension left to keep.This problem doesn't bother them one bit:in ten years' time or so, they'll settle it.The Finance Minister will loudly shout:"There is no money, that is clear, no doubt.Were we to pay the pension dues," he'll say,"the Government would find no wage to pay."Then, in a softer voice, it says to allit will write out solutions, great and small.To pay back pensioners the debt they're due,our Government is offering models: two.The first, just so you know the way it's laid:in two years' time, in four instalments paid.But lest we turn tycoons with all that cash,it fills its coffers up with half the stash.
Puno para za sad ne bi dala,stara srca ne bi izdržala.Misli Vlada na zdravstveno stanjei riješit će svoje obećanje.Drugi model, ovako izgleda:sve se vraća tek za deset ljeta.Dv'je godine imaš poček sada,da kamatu još pobere Vlada.Sve dugove starcima da vrate,zato Vlada dug vraća na rate.Blago nama, tu nema što reći,dugovi će na kapaljku teći.Sve je jasno, nema smicalice,starcima će dati crkavice.Da se ne bi možda tko žaliosvetom Petru kad bi doselio.Eto što se penzićima sprema,dug je vraćen, ali para nema.Dok u Vladi moduse nalaze,u blaženstva penzići odlaze.Radili smo i zato smo krivi,blago onom tko sve to preživi.Još jedino sada starce tješi,dragi Bogo sve će to da riješi.
It wouldn't give us too much cash as yet:old hearts would give out from the shock they'd get.The Government has got our health in mind,and will resolve the promise it has signed.The second model runs like this instead:it all comes back when ten long years have fled.You've two years' grace to start with, so that stillthe Government can gather interest at will.So that the old get all that they are due,the Government pays in instalments, too.Oh, lucky us! There's nothing more to say:the debts will trickle, drop by drop, our way.It's all quite clear, there's no trick to be found:the old will get just crumbs to go around,so that no one, perhaps, will raise a cryto Saint Peter when he moves up on high.That's what the pensioners have got in store:the debt is paid, but cash? There is no more.While in the Government they seek the ways,the pensioners pass on to blissful days.We worked, and so the guilty ones are we;and lucky he who lives all this to see.The only thing that comforts old folk now:dear God himself will sort it out somehow.
Valpovo, 30.07.2004.
Valpovo, July 30, 2004