Dacic's grandmother: Lako, easier and harder
Not long ago, Ivica Dacic said that his grandmother could also reduce salaries and pensions. Then the day after Aleksandar Vučić's guest appearance on the TV show "Oko" - when the prime minister introduced himself as Dačić's grandmother - he, that is, Dačić, came to the studio of your right to know as little as possible and declared "it's not that I have any opinion of my own" and that not "Vučić's decisions, but the entire government."
Everything Dacic said is correct. He is not in a position to have his own opinion, and it is even less likely that the government has one... In other words, we are in the power of a man who is not ready to break up with his fatherly banalities being presented as some magnificent wisdom and to influence the controlled through underground channels. the media are hailed as an epoch-making reformer's work by the Balkan leader.
I don't know if Denis Kuljiš, a Croatian journalist, got, say, an apartment in Belgrade's Gospodara Vučića Street through his work for a Bosnian website, but he was read to us so many times every "minute, two", and even longer when necessary, as a demonstrative exercise on how to write about Vučić, so that an apartment would be small for such a tall journalist who, with his glorification of Vučić, overshadowed the informant's cover story about the size of the prime minister's testicles.
We write more about measures from the classic arsenal of preventing bankruptcy of the state budget on the following pages of this issue of "Vremena", in the text entitled "The Alliance of Leaders and the Poor." As I have already written, it was noticeable that Aleksandar Vučić insisted on his mandate of one hundred and change of day, as if his party, SNS, has not been in power since March 2012.
It is not impossible that this almost Freudian oblivion of obvious facts is caused by the following assessment of the Fiscal Council, which, by the way, I mentioned in this same column last week:
"Two to three years ago, freezing of pensions and salaries and better control of public companies was probably enough to heal public finances. Last year, it was probably enough to cut wages and pensions by ten percent and reform public companies, but the government opted for a 'solidarity tax' and an increase in the reduced VAT rate. All of that delayed the crisis, but that's why an even bigger reduction in pensions and salaries is now necessary."
The public: All Kuljiš to Kuljiš
A serious public discussion on this fundamentally important public issue is missing - all the way from Kuljiš to Kuljiš. That's why we are transmitting the text, probably too emotional, by Danijela Cvetičanin, professor of economics at Singidunum University. It was published on the NSPM website:
"According to Vujaklija, bankruptcy is the inability to pay and meet due financial obligations. With this in mind, how far do you think the Government of Serbia is from bankruptcy? Prime Minister Vučić replied: 'Thousands of miles away', believing, I guess, that he would easily deceive the public, clumsily measuring the degree of closeness to bankruptcy - in miles, not monetary units, which the state lacks to settle its financial obligations to pensioners, doctors, educators, policemen, officers, etc.
Does it seem to you, as well as to me, that the state is transparently bankrupt in front of its citizens, declaring that it cannot pay the contracted pensions and salaries, and therefore will pay them ten percent less (and probably less each year). Why? So that the government would avoid bankruptcy in front of the western creditors - powerful financial corporations, with whom it pushed Serbia into new and bigger debts, which it was known in advance that they would not be able to return. The "brave" Serbian leaders do not even dare to mention to those financial corporations the possibility that they too take part of the risk, write off the uncollectible part of the debt, or at least forget about the interest rates, the amount of which was once unreasonably high precisely because of the "risk of the country".
While charming economic hitmen, from the armchairs of government ministries, swear that they will save Serbia from bankruptcy, i.e. additional debt to the country, but also that at any cost he will return the debt to the world's greengrowers down to the last cent, the awareness is maturing in the people (that damned "mental set" is changing) that the bombing in 1999 was rightfully called the "Merciful Angel", if compared with the degree of economic destruction of the 'Merciless Angel', who, since 2000, has taken Serbia under his wing, using, instead of bombers and ship terrorists, comprador authorities (and other structures), launched in all probability from the same place from which the phantoms and tomahawks took off.
No one can accurately estimate the losses (in population) after the new 'consolidation' fiscal shock. It is a realistic hope that a large number of pensioners and employees in the public sector will survive an additional thirty days each year without income, especially if inflation does not add another day of 'savings', read - poverty! It is certain, however, that many will not be so lucky. I have no doubt that the economic hitmen from the government, including the prime minister himself, will be sorry for that, but they will be able to proudly point out to the world financial community in a few years, how much the degree of trust in Serbia has grown. The sacrifices will not be in vain, and the managers of the world's banks will be able to hand out bonuses with pleasure, with thunderous praise for the Serbian savings program."
Brothers and sisters: When priests count money
Kachavenda's sin, which is that he has Versailles castles and teddy bears above his bed in Bijeljina, was described by the church at the time of the public scandal surrounding his sexual inclinations as "the momentary weakness of a fallen brother", but that is why it also condemned the announced holding of the Pride Parade this year, which sees it as "an unprecedented gathering imposed on Serbia and Belgrade".
Nothing unexpected, that she didn't show concern for spending budget money, which is the ultimate hypocrisy considering that they are paid for their performances, 365 days a year, for the most part from the budget, and they don't give anything to the budget.
The SPC wonders: "Is it because of the essentially absurd parading that the state should, in the current poverty, spend millions to secure a handful of fellow citizens and their guests for a parade of several hundred meters in the center of Belgrade... You have the right to parade, but only at your own expense and the expense of your principals." , no matter what they were called, both for the parade and for security, but not at the expense of Serbia - bombed, destroyed, morally and economically crippled, impoverished, flooded, impaled nailed to shame", according to the statement of the Serbian Orthodox Church, signed by Patriarch Irinej.
This caused, I would say rightly, a large number of comments on social networks, the most succinct of which was: "I will vote for the party that will ask the church to pay taxes." Popovs have a price list for every type of divine service - from funerals to baptisms - aman ni they don't put the yellow bank in the budget, which they are so worried about now. And even when the pop slams the tariff, he necessarily adds "another thousand, two for the churchman" as if it were the second OUR of the heavenly holding.
Perhaps their financing should be left to the principal - God himself - so that they do not fulfill the vow of poverty and refrain from greed.
