His father, who used to work as a chauffeur for an Ivory Coast politician, drives a truck here.
Since then we have seen three bailouts, umpteen politicians driven from office, public protests, stock market plunges (and rallies), nail-biting deadlines, dramatic (and occasionally turgid) Summits.
Yet German politicians, driven by ideology and local politics, have been fixated on fiscal problems while allowing the banking crisis to fester and worsen.
"They will find anything that they can use," Amiri said of politicians driven by anti-abortion ideology.
In Basra, residents complained recently that they had to spend long hours stuck in traffic as politicians drove by in large convoys.
And if we let our politicians drive profit back into clinical encounters then we haven't moved on since Chaucer, and we have yet to learn from Hippocrates.
"But the politicians drove local businesses out, because people don't like to be around industry, and replaced them with all these malls and fast-food places and what have you, and forced people to drive into L.A. to work, and when people have spent three hours in the car they don't go to PTA meetings and community-oriented things — and so the community falls apart".
Every day this week the Helpers have been stationed at the gates of Melbourne's Parliament House car park, pushing pamphlets that condemn abortion at every woman who walks past, and waving large banners and placards as politicians drive in.
"PAP politicians drove home the message to voters that the Workers Party had mismanaged a town council it had run, that the opposition was fragmented and fighting amongst itself, and that the opposition had no experience managing a national economy, foreign policy, and other matters of state".
