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If we create an e-government and thus the administrative services go online, out of 1 million state and municipal officials, 900,000 will lose their jobs and these unemployed will have to vote. Will the government release them?
This was commented on by economist Asen Vassilev on the air of 7/8 TV, quoted by Frognews, in response to the question why e-government has not been established in Bulgaria since 2013.
It is not about the technical implementation of e-government. Here we are talking about a purely political and administrative issue, which has an absolute reluctance to be resolved, he said.
To combat this, we must constantly insist that the government not bet on increasing administration costs, but on reducing these costs, Vassilev said.
If we had not established a 30% increase in administration costs in the new budget, but a 30% reduction in costs, the administration itself would have started looking for a way to save that money. The simplest way is to automate processes so you don’t need so many mindless people and drives. The easiest way to reform is through budget: By reducing a unit’s money, you start streamlining your processes and doing the same job with a more efficient resource, he said.
The budget of our country for next year is overestimated in its part of income, since it has an increase in income by about 10%, and the part of expenses increases even more compared to the part of income. The question is where the costs go. It is planned to increase pensions by BGN 50 for March, until the elections. There is a drastic increase in the costs of state administration in all its forms. In other words, the people of the administration must be very happy to vote “correctly”. There is an increase in the minimum wage, which actually means there is an increase in taxes. In other words, the poorest people who are on the minimum wage will have to pay the salaries of the state administration and this increase. In reality, the yellow pennies are set as measures for health facilities and businesses, explained the economist.
We need to be able to distinguish the health crisis from the economic one. They did it successfully in Slovakia. They organized a massive test of the people and in two weekends they analyzed the entire population of the country. People who did not want to be tested were forced to stay home and not go out, in quarantine. Thus, it was found that 1% of the population is sick. The affected people were quarantined along with their families and the others continued to work. In this way, they achieved two things: high mortality and morbidity did not happen, and secondly, the healthy continued to work, restaurants and stores remained open. There were restrictions, but insignificant, like those of the summer. And there is mostly predictability for business, he said.
When there is visibility of what is happening with morbidity and you control this process, when there is predictability of what the economic process will be like, then the company can make a decision and make the right decisions. And we drive at 200 km / h, but we do not look through the windshield, but through the rear view mirror and thus we try to find out what is happening, Vassilev said.
Winter will be severe. An appropriate measure is the moratorium on loans, since it is money that companies can use for expenses, for salaries. Other things that can be done is to clean the health system of the virus so that it can begin to function normally, the former minister said.
When people are hungry, they don’t stay home. When your choice comes down to feeding your children or following the measurements, the choice is clear. This will lead to a crisis that will not last until March, but until next winter or an even more severe crisis, the economist believes.
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