"Fact" daily writes:
Listen, you say with your mouth. 3 (three) billion drams... reward. And to Nikol Pashinyan, his cabinet ministers, deputy ministers, department heads. Including drivers.
In a country where the level of poverty continues to be high, the government, government officials, starting with Nikol Pashinyan, practically write off 3 billion drams, or almost 8 (eight) million US dollars, from the state budget.
And that is the end of the year, so to speak, "holiday" reward. Although, it doesn't even matter anymore. Have you ever seen, at least in the old movies, how those who somehow overcome the desert escape to water, or how starving people attack food? When the information about this multi-billion-dollar self-reward payment of Pashinyan's government, the "first-second" figures in the power sector, officials was published, such scenes "passed" through the mind of the author of my lines.
And what did our retired and benefited compatriots think or what do they think? What images did they see when they found out that the masked officials who confess their love every night, as if bowing before them, were paid millions? So many millions that one of the ministers even casually states that he himself was paid 6-7 million drams.
Well, they have suffered, so they will receive Liubol. No, absorb that moment one more time, 6-7 million. I mean, they don't really count the millions. Well, a million here, a million there, what's that to them? Yes, for themselves. For those who, under other circumstances, would have dreamed of seeing 2-3 million drams together, let's not say that under those other circumstances, they would have seen their heads rather than a high state position...
Now, for them, 10 or 20 thousand dollars is just a small pocket expense. There is an impression that the "patchmakers" of the "first row" of the cap have entered the state budget and have eaten. Absolutely. Eye-catchingly. And this government of Pashinyan openly mocks and takes advantage of the society, first of all, the pensioners, the needy, the poor.
In case of a legal demand to pay 10,000 drams more to a pensioner, they start crying bitterly that there is no money or that the pensioner does not know what to spend the money on. They say that if a pensioner is suddenly paid 20,000 drams more, it will not change anything in his life, the house will remain unheated.
And it turns out like this. since 20,000 drams will not change anything in the life of a pensioner, let's give ourselves a bonus of 6-7 million drams so as not to "get confused". This, this behavior that the Pashinyan government displays, or rather, displayed in connection with reward payments, also has a very simple and brief, non-legal definition. immorality.
Social immorality, if you will. Let's put aside the question, "reward for what?" For example, to discuss issues of celibacy in the Church, to attack the Church, to detain oppositionists, not to raise pensions, not to reduce poverty, for the increase in murders, serious crimes (fill in according to your imagination)? For what? I repeat, let's put that aside.
And that is not even important. The bottom line is that one minister's one-time reward is equal to 1 pensioner's pension for 10-12 years (one can say the rest of his life). Or, it is the amount of 1 year's pension of 10-12 pensioners.
Yes, Pashinyan himself and his two deputy prime ministers, i.e. 3 people, received a total of 51.6 million drams. That is the 1-year pension of 110 to 120 pensioners. Now imagine if they were awarded 10 times less than that in the past. What would happen? And there would be noise and shouting.
For example, in 2013, 2014, and even in 2017, Nikol Pashinyan would have given a heartbreaking speech from the NA podium, and we would have disgraced the ministers who received bonuses. And now, on the contrary, there is one more thing that justifies, justifies, that they worked hard by not sparing their own lives, but they will be rewarded... My light-hearted grandmother would say that they eat as if it were the end of the world.
Of course, it is not the end of the world, but Pashinyan and the "first row" hoodlums understand very well that 2026 could be the end of their power. And from that idea, as if feverishly, they scrape everything possible from the budget. It's not that they didn't scrape before, it's just that now it's done more feverishly and on a larger scale.
And they are the ones who say that there is no corruption or that they do not rob, this, that. But the fact is what it is, and what it is is reflected in their faces, especially in the form of plump cheeks. Not to mention elite apartments, private houses, expensive cars.
Millions are in contact, dear "hero taxpayers", grandparents, whom Nikol Pashinyan and the elite of the CP, let's repeat, love, bow down to all of you, bow down and... oh, they don't take their fine hands out of your pockets.
By the way, about the "wheats" of the upper class and the "barleys" of the lower class. It is noteworthy that especially the "first-line" officials - prime minister, deputy prime minister, deputies, ministers, deputies, etc. - have awarded themselves with "chalagaj" bonuses.
And hey, "Massovka" caps have had their share of shorts, if they have fallen at all. They say that not a single blind penny has reached the heads of various school principals, other heads and women of small state institutions, who are "deported" to CP church rallies and other similar party events as needed.
Or just the blind penny arrived. Well, that is already an ancient and unwritten law. Those who enjoy billions and millions always make small noises to the "rows". Not to mention the fact that, for example, nothing happened to teachers, art teachers, kindergarten employees and other "rank" workers of state institutions.
There is no money... Is it clear how many pennies are worth the words of Pashinyan and the "first row" masked people on the fight against corruption, not looting and other similar topics?
If it's not clear, look at their bonuses and look at your debts and empty pockets. Is that why you brought them to power on your shoulders? Think.
It helps to sober up quickly. ARMEN HAKOBYAN Details in today's issue of "Past" daily
