MIRCEA MARIAN: “Who said that the liberal Government has reached the bottom and cannot supply electoral bribe is proved to be wrong.”
The Minister of Finance and Economy, Varujan Vosganian, announced on Saturday that the following increase of the pensions will occur this November or December and not on the 1st of January 2009.
Thus, we’ll witness the same situation we had before the European Parliament elections: a few days before the vote, the pensioners will receive more money and a letter which should explain to them why they should show gratitude to the liberal Executive.
Thinking the budget won’t be capable to finance this decision is a common mistake. It should be quite easy for the Executive to give up on some infrastructure investments, to cut the budget on schools and raise the pensions with the remaining money. The investments for Romania’s highways are forgotten.
The Bucuresti-Ploiesti highway is stuck in a forest which was declared a natural monument and the authorities don’t seem willing to find a solution. The Transilvania highway has no more money for about a month now. Since he Executive doesn’t urge the termination of Romanian highways, a sensitive matter for many voters, we can only imagine what happens to the rest of the investments in infrastructure.
It would be nice to see now what people really got from the last pension raise. The inflation is not the issue here but the fact that food prices have almost doubled and the costs of the services are constantly increasing. It’s unlikely that the pensioners would have seen an improvement of their living standards.
Besides the pensions matter, Romania has missed the first two years after entering the European Union. The political and economic reforms are brought to a halt and the state’s budget turned into a canvass budget for the National Liberal Party, the Social Democratic Party and the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania. The decentralization process is at the same level it was in 2004.
The policemen are still under the direct command of Minister David instead of answering to the mayor, as it happens in most of the civilized countries. The schools still teach the same teaching line from before 1989, because the Government is afraid to argue with the powerful unions.
I’m sure the liberals are aware that their electoral bribes won’t help them win the elections and nominate a future Prime Minister, so they face another four years of opposition. Yet, they do what Stefan the Great used to do before retreating into the mountains. Tariceanu’s men burn down the crops and poison the fountains while waiting for the enemy.
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