D. Koutsoubas-Budget: The government cultivates false expectations in employees

The Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, in his speech today in the Parliament on the State Budget said that the Budget “is within the requirements of the various business groups in Greece at the given time to secure their huge profits on time that the people are suffering “.

He added that the government was “turning a blind eye” to “the few capitalists who expect security for their investments and other guarantees of their profits” and at the same time “cultivates false expectations in employees that this growth will be for everyone”.

He stressed that “the biggest growth in Europe”, for which the government is “roaring”, is the result of “the continuation, maintenance and escalation of the anti-popular attack” as the government “caught the thread from where the SYRIZA government left it and continues”.

As he explained, he speaks of “the whole anti-labor arsenal that increases the exploitation of workers, a basic condition of capitalist development.”

He added that “the biggest recovery in Europe” is the result of “the provocative support of strong sections of capital with new incentives and new privileges”.

He pointed out that according to government estimates, this growth “will reach the level of 2008, sometime in 2032 if everything goes smoothly”, stressing that “this is impossible in capitalism because in a system full of contradictions and competition it is funny to talk no one for “normalcy”, much more that the Greek economy is not in a bowl “.

He spoke in support of the US Alliance, but also said that maintaining some independence was not the answer. employees “.

D. Koutsoubas said that this year’s Budget is also “deeply anti-popular and class” because, “all tax revenues are essentially loaded on the backs of the people, while, on the contrary, for large businesses despite the increase in their profits is provided” friendly participation “at the symbolic level of 5%, which becomes even more provocative because employees carry on their backs the burdens that have been borne since the time of the memoranda, while large companies benefit from continuous reductions in their taxation”.

He referred, presenting concrete data, to the maintenance of ENFIA, for which he stressed that it should be abolished, to the “crumbs” provided by the Budget for organic farmers as well as to the burdens that are still borne by small entrepreneurs who “struggle with old and new debts. with very expensive raw materials and a surge in energy costs “.

He stressed that the unpopularity and classism of the Budget “is reflected in the expenditures related to benefits for employees, pensions, Health and Education” as “despite the increase in GDP and tax revenues,” frozen “expenditures related to critical popular needs remain “.

Addressing the government specifically for Health, he said that “while the need for strengthening the public health system is” shouting “from everywhere, you have the audacity to bring a Budget with reduced costs for hospitals and Primary Health Care, while for “The strengthening of public hospitals or a word. With the” new NSS “you dared to talk about the closure of some hospitals.”

He also noted that a total of 7.5 billion euros will be given in 2022 for “US-NATO expenditures, for the ambitious aspirations to upgrade the role of the country’s ruling class”.

He added that there is no provision in the Budget to meet the demands of the employees of the Immigration Service, while referring to the non-integration, “why the suspension marks have not been given”, the 80,000 seasonal workers in Tourism in the Unemployment Fund and the complete lack of income of 200,000 employees in Food-Tourism.

D. Koutsoubas said that “along with everything else, the anti-popular and class character of the Budget is revealed by the comparison between the growth of real GDP, in 2022 by 4.5% compared to 2021, and the marginal change that will “The average real wage is just 0.2%, which is another proof that social inequalities are widening, as in the whole capitalist world, whether they are ruled by neoliberals, social democrats, center-right or center-left.”

He said that SYRIZA’s criticism of the government “suits it because it leaves intact the core of your policy with which, apart from individual differences, it identifies”.

He noted that SYRIZA presents “as a solution the source of the problem”, explaining that “the myth that a capitalist development is profitable and workers and industrialists, shipowners and bankers has long since collapsed.”

He said that when “Al. Tsipras worries that social cohesion will be disrupted and social stability threatened, he will address and test the business groups” and added that “you all tremble at popular anger and indignation, especially when the people decide to fight no. for a change of administrator of the building of the system, but for a change of the ruler, of the ruling class as a whole “.

He said that “SYRIZA’s criticism of the increase of the minimum wage is convenient” whose “brave increase is certainly imperative and urgently needed”, underlining that “despite your declarations for increase of the minimum wage, as long as it remains in its position all the anti-labor legal arsenal of the abolition of Collective Agreements, the panspermia of labor relations, of part-time or part-time employment, the average wage will be constantly squeezed down, the gap between the needs of workers and their income will grow.

He added that the accuracy “is not out and about the operation of the system itself”.

“If today we want to talk about protecting the people’s income, it means substantial increases in wages, abolition of anti-popular taxes, indirect taxes and transfer of tax burdens to large capital, increase of pensions and reduction of insurance contributions of employees, with their parallel transfer “Large employers, to put a brake on the price increases of consumer goods and effective intervention against the various cartels,” he stressed.

He said that despite the criticism of SYRIZA and KINAL for “incompetence of the government”, nevertheless “PASOK / KINAL has voted 70% of your bills and SYRIZA 50%”.

“The core of the policy of all of you is how to ensure better conditions for the profitability of monopoly groups, especially in conditions of international competition and instability caused by the vicious circle between capitalist crisis and development,” said D. Koutsoubas, adding: “Social Democracy has the ability to implement the core of this policy with less vibration for the system and its power. the same anti-popular course continues “.

Referring to the “mask of progress” of ND and SYRIZA, he said that “your progress is synonymous with capitalist profitability”.

“Progress is to move forward, to improve your life. Progress is for your children to live better than you, from previous generations”, he underlined, emphasizing that “such a proposal-plan has the KKE, which gives an answer to the question what should to be done and how we can really achieve them to meet the modern needs of the people “.

“To all the ordinary people of hard work, work, life, we address. To think that life brings them in front of an important choice that they either had not thought until now or may have rejected: To coexist with the KKE, in the struggles, in the movement.

To put their stamp on the coming developments together with the KKE. There is no other solution today. Only then will we move forward.

In the next period, the “NO” of the KKE in this anti-popular budget, can and must become much stronger, by the people themselves “, concluded the Secretary General of the KKE Central Committee.

Source: AMPE