What would they say?

What would Hungarian households say if utility costs suddenly jumped, say, threefold?

I wonder what the pensioners would say if this year, in this cursed pandemic year, they did not receive a pension increase, supplement, or bonus, citing last year's bad economic indicators, and there was no promise of the thirteenth monthly pension either? I don't think they would so easily accept the otherwise acceptable explanation, since the pandemic has destroyed the economies of most countries, and the EU is also withholding the payment of the money due to us from the recovery fund.

For the Germans, however, the disbursement of their share of 25 billion euros from the fund started already in August, because Germany is a state of law, there are no question marks, there is no corruption, there is no need to fear that the money will go to the wrong place. The Germans are very lucky that they don't have a single representative in the European Parliament who would constantly rail against their country. The German pensioners will certainly not receive any of the recovery money, because this year, citing economic indicators, the pension increase, bonus, and thirteenth month's pension are not available anyway.

Equality between the sexes is not guaranteed either, because women's pensions are indeed lower than men's. There are no data for the third gender with many letters, they are too young to be cared for. So I don't know how the opposition would hold the pensioners against the government because of the missed increase, possible tax and contribution obligations?

I wonder what Hungarian households would say if utility costs suddenly jumped, say, threefold? Because the stock market price of gas climbed to a record high, purchase prices rose five times compared to last year. The Germans are afraid that if the gas reservoirs run out of gas, they will certainly be able to stockpile it at a higher price, and that will lead to an increase in consumer prices.

Until now, energy has not been cheap, gas and electricity cost an average German household 2,400 euros (approx. HUF 850,000) per year. were advised by the socially sensitive representative Ms. Barley, Klára Dobrev's I haven't heard such good advice from any government official in this country, they just say that

energy prices have remained unchanged for ten years thanks to the utility subsidy.

I remember that in the 2000s, my Hungarian utilities were much higher than the German ones, the energy bill back home was higher, the phone was more expensive, the interest and bank charges were much higher. It took a week for my transferred money to arrive in my Hungarian bank account. When I asked about it, the friendly, innocent clerk informed me that the money was there, he could see it, but it hadn't been credited yet.

I wonder what the people of Budapest would say if, say, a liberal-green movement like Momentum or perhaps they personally initiated a referendum on the expropriation of privately owned apartments in Budapest, as happened in Berlin a few weeks ago? They want to nationalize more than 200,000 apartments there, to take away the ownership right from the big apartment groups.

I wonder what the Hungarians wishing to own family homes would say if suddenly a party would not support the family home building program, would outright ban it, because it is too expensive, energy-intensive, and no one deserves that much private living space anyway.

This is also part of the program of the German Greens, just like the expropriation, and if the red-yellow-green "lamp coalition" comes to power, who knows how much of it will be realized. (We have already experienced this when the party leadership determined the housing needs of the people. Two rooms or one room and two half-rooms were prescribed and built for a family of four.)

I wonder what the Hungarian citizens would say if the hard-won security of private property was lost again? What would the Hungarians say if the accountability promised by the opposition were realized, if the constitutional order and the guarantees of the rule of law were endangered? If the referendum of the led masses, the so-called direct democracy, would abolish the basic law?

What would the Hungarians say if the strategic sectors fell into foreign hands again, if the economic growth of 7.6 percent, which was at the forefront of Europe, as recently forecast by the IMF, suddenly started to fall with the fake takeover of power? I don't know what the people of Budapest would say if their city was noisy with street riots reminiscent of October 2006, if public safety was down there, as is the case in major European cities?

And I don't know what the Hungarian opposition parties, the entire rainbow coalition, would say if, citing Article 59 of the Basic Law, the Constitutional Protection Office (in other words, the secret service) declared them extremist and anti-national, as the Germans do with the AfD? If they observed their politicians on the German model, if young activists from the government party had overturned their primary election booths, would they have made the entire primary election flea circus impossible?

I know the answer to this: they would run to Brussels for help, because they think Hungary has a dictatorship, and the democratic legal order and human dignity are in danger.

Source and full article: MH/Rab Irén

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