@Lato_Lapsa What is in that video at all, who got upset or has gotten upset there? I suspect it was in Jurēvics' imagination 'How I scattered them all', peeking from behind a tree at a safe distance.
The sluggish parasite of Unity understands that the trough time is ending, and has decided to retrain as a paparazzi. Good idea, Edmundiņ, in this job you will surely succeed in losing weight. https://t.co/iRfafkepR8
APVIENOTAIS SARAKSTS - Latvijas Zaļā partija, Latvijas Reģionu Apvienība, Liepājas partija · Ekonomists (FM ministra birojs)
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Regarding budget problems, there are two entrenched myths. First, that budget expenditures can be cut linearly. That is a popular slogan. The second myth is that the problem can be solved by cutting only 'the bad ones', others. Almost always officials are invoked. Both myths are financial illiteracy. The state apparatus can always be made more efficient, anywhere and anytime. 10% or more? Public administration is nowhere, in no country, as efficient as a private company, where profit motive or survival is a natural regulator. In public administration, by definition, such a regulator does not exist, so efficiency gains can only happen through coercion, through reform and dictate. With force, coercion. But that cannot solve the budget deficit. That way you can save some tens of millions, leaving 2000 million of deficit. Large sums go to the public sector (300+ thousand employees - police, doctors, teachers, soldiers). And together they are billions. Then the social sphere is funded with 6 billion, the majority of society. Those sums are not large individually, but there are many recipients - that's where the billions come from. If we really want to solve the problem at its root, we need to improve efficiency across all spheres as a whole, look at where it is truly needed, where there are inefficiencies. But that is guaranteed to affect some of us personally, even by a few euros. And that will never be popular, that is the most essential problem, the root of the political problem. Almost no country in the world can solve this.
APVIENOTAIS SARAKSTS - Latvijas Zaļā partija, Latvijas Reģionu Apvienība, Liepājas partija · Ekonomists (FM ministra birojs)
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I have proposals in mind. What millions or 10 can be saved. By eliminating ministries, you transfer functions to another, the savings are only a small part of the administration staff. If you save at all. An example is the territorial reform, now there are fewer municipalities, fewer deputies and their salaries. But the total number of employees in municipal administration has grown. It can happen the same with ministries if you optimize inefficiently.
@guntarsv@u_osis What's wrong with eliminating some ministries? At first there were state ministers, then they turned into ministries, just to maintain proportionality for the coalition.
🇱🇻 Latvians really aren't fools and understand what we don't need here! Never! Ireland: 1) Not in NATO 2) is in economic state of war with Israel. The same thing that the progressives in the Ministry of Defense started implementing. 3) is the only country that politically persecutes a teacher who dared not address 'transgender' students with their she/her pronouns. 🇮🇪 Ireland is demolishing the foundations of its national values. Catholic schools teach social gender. 🍉 I would understand if Ireland's model were proposed by Lenin together with Selma, not @AlvisHermanis1. #🙈
🇱🇻 Latvians really aren't fools and understand what we don't need here! Never! Ireland: 1) Not in NATO 2) is in economic state of war with Israel. The same thing that the progressives in the Ministry of Defense started implementing. 3) is the only country that politically persecutes a teacher who dared not address 'transgender' students with their she/her pronouns. 🇮🇪 Ireland is demolishing the foundations of its national values. Catholic schools teach social gender. 🍉 I would understand if Ireland's model were proposed by Lenin together with Selma, not @AlvisHermanis1. #🙈
I agree that 'attempts to patch the system with linear budget cuts and loud slogans alone will fail.' In my opinion, the next coalition must have one specific iron law that stands above everything else. Automatically, by default, do not consider any proposals that require more money next year compared to this year. The opposite is to deny the 'zero budget' principle as such. Instead, it's 'just pile on more,' which has always been the case so far. If this one principle is followed, new initiatives will have to be funded from internal resources, streamline processes, eliminate the unnecessary. Only that way.
I translate: 25% per year is not 'trust in the plan', it's quick-loan profit. Investors don't care about the business plan - they know perfectly well: if airBaltic can't pay (and most likely won't), the government will again rush in with the taxpayer's wallet to put out the fire. Win-win, but not for us. ✈️💸 https://t.co/k649kn4hZP
The question is actually very understandable: the cameraman obviously knows perfectly well that he lives in a country of Juģins, Lībiņš, Ruka and Meistere's mentu zaņka, where, coming to help, he himself can simply become the main accused. https://t.co/zQLbr6dgXW
Unfortunately, looking at this scene, one very important and incomprehensible question rightly arises: why did the person who, apparently, was in the car choose to film rather than help a group of people who were experiencing an attack at that moment? https://t.co/LTIxaGmiC4
This week, KNL Kulbergs, making excuses for why nothing has been done in the budget, among other things, said that he had to spend 30% of his time saving AirBaltic and that it had succeeded. Now we learn that this success involves borrowing at 25% per year, which is no longer even a quick loan, but some kind of grave robbing. Moreover, the tax money allocated by the Saeima will now go to paying interest to some representatives of this 'smart money'. I hope to hear @AndrisKulbergs explanation today about this great plan. Saving a company that cannot repay a 14.5% loan by giving it a new one at 25% sounds really interesting.
Latvia's banking market has long lacked sufficient competition. Both residents and businesses feel the consequences. More expensive financing, slower development of offers, and less choice. Even a relatively small new market entrant can change the competitive dynamics, forcing large banks to lower fees, improve offers, and compete more actively for clients. Indexo bank has attracted nearly 70,000 clients in two years, built a €124 million loan portfolio, and accumulated €148 million in deposits. The bank notes that 60 to 70% of clients who actually refinance a mortgage choose Indexo. It is positive that the state has simplified mortgage refinancing. However, the result of this policy should be measured not only by the number of banks or offers, but by how many families actually switch banks and how much they save on interest payments.. There is still much to do in terms of financing availability and price. However, the entry of new market players and easier loan refinancing show that change is possible. Competition should continue to be promoted. https://t.co/Zmf9E9QzJY
The stupid green-farmers' ober - Aivars' six got so worried about failing in the elections that it even dared to attack Andris, the companion of its bread-giver🤡
‼️ My priority is the export of grain grown by Latvian farmers. Not Russia's "bloody" grain transit. That is why @Arlietas defended this today in the Cabinet of Ministers, and also supported the Cabinet's decision on enhanced control of grain origin and a unified approach for regional countries. 📸 @TV3zinas