The Government spends huge ammounts of money on what they call "protocol services", which is a fancy word for nothing else than even fancier dinners, cars, drinks, foods and of course, "gifts" to please them all. They spend unknown ammounts of money for these things every month. Nobody, not even them, knows the real figures, because they steal so much and from so many diffrent places, that nobody keeps the count anymore. But the fact is that we're may be talking about millions and millions of dollars every month in here, money which within a year could help save the lives of some poor sick people who are waiting for their medicines, money who could buy some more computers to the school, money who could finally start building a digital infrastructure or some buildings, or money which - for our "area of interest" - could finally engage the AH1RO Dracula program, the program which everybody attacks in their race for next year's ellections, and the program which has been canceled after it was signed, because it took 2 years for the Government to realize that "Well, actually, we just discovered that we have no money".
So what is their latest super-smart solution to this whole problem ?
Will they stop stealing ? NO !
Will they make some real programs ? NO !
Will they start working ? NO !
Will they stop skipping going to work ? oh NO !
Then what ? What's the brilliant solution with which the Romanian Armed Forces could get the money for upgrading that it is waiting for since like 1993 ? Well, listen to this, coz this is good:
The Romanian Armed Forces will have to "look for different sources of income", what exactley does that means, well, it means "external sources of funding", and what exactley does that mean, it means that the army will start asking for sponsors. Sponsors from where ? Well, don't ask me, ask the brilliant minds that came up with this idea in the first place. So, if they will ever find a sponsor, they will have to give those money to the government, to the "smart guys with the protocol service", and they will spend it for caviars and champaigns. Hey hey, wait a minute, i thought you said "money for the army", well, yeah, i did, but THEY didn't !
The Army only gets the money, and then they surrender all of them to the "smart guys", because "we know what to do with them". The "smart guys" take 90% of them, buy fancy cars, caviars and rare wines, and then return 10% of them to the good-old Army, so that "they could have their reward for what they have worked".
But that's not fair !!!! Well, of course it isn't !! If the Military manages to find a sponsor - whoever would that be, a company, a foundation, a private person, whatever - and that sponsor gives one million dollars to the Military, the government's "protocol service" takes 900,000 dollars from that and buys food, drinks and cars for the suit-nutcases of Romania, and then returns only 100,000 dollars to the Military.
So all that this fancy-mess is, is not only a "help yourself" message, but is a very rude and tipical "help yourself but give it to me" message from the same government that stopped the AH1RO program because "nobody is attacking us now" but decided to double the salaries of the miners, the same miners which killed citizens and destroyed Bucharest in 1990 and 1991. My god, with such people in charge, maybe one day soon Romania will be a terrorist-free land, somehow like Afghanistan, Libya, Syria or the Philippines...
Or if this bunch of a government continues to double the salaries of miners, then our economy will "upgrade" itself to the levels encountered in those terrorist countries named above... May God protect Romania, as for sure, the current government does not.
©1999, Sorin
A Crâsmarelu
october 1999
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