Whatever my wife says, I'm basically a patient person. You bear with due indulgence and Christian forgiveness the long list of human foibles, except stupidity. Stupidity can really hurt! For example, I would like to shout from the Matovičs! Or with them…
The cabinet, first named Igor Matovič and then Eduard Heger, has demonstrated its complete incompetence countless times over the past two years, even though, God forbid, I looked at the government that took office in April 2020 with trust bordering on naivety. I would even have overlooked Matovič that because of him I have to constantly use the left Alt ₊ Shift language switch key combination every time I write his name, even though I have never had such a problem with Pellegrini, nor Fico, nor even Dzurinda before, and Mrs. Radičová disappeared soon enough about color so that the letter č doesn't hurt too much. Matovič could have been put through somehow. I can also forgive him for axing the accountability of Fico's political thugs. At least Kaliňák managed to cut in while fishing, for about a month and a half. God, there is one!
The stupid things I experienced in epidemic management already made the vein on my forehead pulsate, but I accepted even that.
The COVID epidemic was truly an unprecedented challenge. It is true that there were no fair awareness campaigns, but there was a multi-million euro COVID lottery. It's true that instead of consistent epidemiological measures, we got nationwide testing, for which we ordered the sticks from our friends, but let's be lenient. You had to learn to turn the pedals on the go. A few stomach falls fit in, even if the price of the Matovičs' snooping was unfortunately measured in human lives.
On the other hand, what we are experiencing in the midst of the truly unparalleled geopolitical and economic storms going on around us is something quite amazing. It is as if no Slovak government politician understands that the world we know, are used to and love everywhere is in danger.
When Oszkár Világi declares in our studio that nothing will be the same again, the owner of Slovnaft is not only talking about the price of gasoline. There is nothing pathetic or journalistic exaggeration in this, quite simply the world as we know it will end. Not just because of the war! If God helps us, maybe we will never have to endure the suffering that the unfortunate Ukrainian people are experiencing now, even though the politicians here are almost as stupid as they are over there.
We cannot avoid the economic consequences of the change in the world order, but we don't even want to see the European Union.
There is no place for economic indicators in a publication like this, so I will not talk about inflation statistics, weighted real wages, or energy policy constraints. It is enough to walk to the nearest gas station, to compare the utility bills for 2022 with last year, to buy a kilo of chicken breast. I'm not going to shape up, as a middle-class person with a university degree, I'll somehow just put up with it if I don't get to go on vacation for five or six years, or if I only heat my study room to 21 degrees instead of 22. But what will happen to those parents who will have to manage the costs of maintaining three rooms, two children and a car from 650 net? With those pensioners who have to maintain an old family house and a life with 350 euros?
It is not an exaggeration, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, will be forced to spend the next few (?) years on the edge of quality starvation, because they cannot pay the price of meat, fruit, or any vegetables other than potatoes, while the Slovak government DID NOTHING to we avoid this.
The inflation rescue package was accepted in such a way that we still don't know what it will be financed from, because the only company whose taxation would have pumped some blood into the budget depleted by the crisis was sucked in with petroleum sanctions supported by the Hegers. Let's just leave it at that, yesterday, the head of state threw the package back for renegotiation, while I do it, he signed the amendment to the dual citizenship law faster than Stalin signed his current death list around 1937.
I mentioned Christian forgiveness at the beginning, but now all violent things come to mind.
The news came on Monday that Finance Minister Igor Matovič is bringing the 10% increase in teachers' salaries to the government, knowing full well that the SaS is openly opposed to the tax increases he has bundled with it.
In democracies with a more fortunate historical development than Slovakia, such as Chad or Equatorial Guinea, the open warfare of the coalition partners would perhaps be surprising. In Slovakia, this is part of the normal course of business. This is a young country, looking for its place, learning about parliamentarism, like the Slovaks from Rajka say "good day". But the fact that this is the alpha and omega of the government's policy even in a quasi-war situation, on the verge of the collapse of the European way of life, is not a mistake. The sin!
Instead of the fight for our future, there is a fight for the egos of political minutemen. Instead of crisis measures, we read about the government's internal power games in the papers, instead of purposeful measures, we see press conferences where the current egomaniac politician tells us which of his "allies" is the reason why he fails to pass his latest plan to save the world in parliament. In the light of all this, it is almost incidental that Matovič, Sulík, Heger and all the other government-party running fools are just now laying eggs for Fico, Pellegrini and two-thirds of the Slovak chauvinists.
We Hungarians from the highlands really can't expect anything good from them, but you're slowly keeping it there, come what must come, just don't have to watch the Matovičs' stupid power games anymore.
Do not doubt for a minute, the majority of voters will choose pragmatism combined with recklessness over idiocy combined with servility any day of the week! In fact, twice on Sunday...
Krisztián Pomichal/ ma7.sk
Photo: cas.sk
