-- President Basescu's attitude at the pension raise is really filthy. He lied to people even live on TV. He lied in his letter to PM Tariceanu. He lies as he breathes, hopeful that he can fool people forever.
Those who said the President was opposing the Liberals' draft on the pension raise, unanimously voted by the MPs, he called liars. And then he said he wouldn't promulgate "a lying law". Therefore on the one hand he promises to promulgate the law because the Constitution requires him to, even if he has to send it back to the Parliament first. And on the other hand he says he won't promulgate it if it proves having no financial resources. This is impossible.
Basescu is twice a liar this time. Because of the Constitution, he must promulgate the law, whether he likes it or not. Did he not do it, President Basescu would break the Constitution so severely that even the Constitutional Court would announce the crime that may call for his suspension or even resignation. You don't play with 5,5 million retired Romanians who are mocked. This is why President Basescu won't even risk sending the law back to the Parliament.
The request he sent PM Tariceanu, asking the latter to inform him on the funds able to cover for the norms on the pension raise law, is a presidential self goal and a ball for the Liberal government to catch. The latter is a government brave enough to overcome a psychological limit - or a (macroeconomic) vicious circle - and to do what should have been done a long while ago. The pension raise is a possible, necessary and moral measure. One can't possibly keep millions of people hardly surviving for 18 years because there are no resources. Hence there will be resources only when they are dead. Many of them passed away in the meantime anyway.
Another lie of Basescu's, the one that has fooled some, is that the large pensions will actually raise, whereas the small ones will be raised too little. 1. He wanted to enrage people, because those with large pensions don't get them from the social fund. 2. I would like to see President Basescu and his wealthy daughters who spend in one week as much as one poorest retired Romanian gets in 10 years, how he can manage to live on a minimum pension one single month: this is 350 RON, 3 bottles of Chivas. He can't even pay his taxes with it. As for medicine, food or hygiene products, they are out of question. On the money Basescu spends every day on a bottle of whisky a poor retired Romanian can survive a week. Therefore to those retired getting the minimum and average pensions this raise matters a lot. It makes them feel human beings instead of starving animals.
When it was about the promulgation of his salary raise, President Basescu signed it at once. He did the same when promoting Democrat general Stanca, formerly a member of the Communist Secret Service. Let the poor man get some more money! He out-heroded Herod by pleading for lustration.
The Tariceanu Cabinet must be brave enough to prove moral all the way. If the case, they should proceed to an emergency ordinance to cut as much as possible on the pensions of the ex Communists and of those involved in the political police. Mind you again: this is about criminal villains like general Plesita, enjoying pensions of thousands greens for having tortured and killed people, including these millions of poor retired Romanians, whose pensions President Basescu refuses to raise.
Roxana Iordache
Ziua Vineri 13 Iulie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
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