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I just read a news item on the United Russia website:
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Pensioners thank Medvedev for providing a one-time
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payment.
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And Medvedev himself says that this one-time 5,000-ruble
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bonus will allow pensioners to buy something for the holiday.
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It’s terribly touching, but right now I want to give
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Medvedev, United Russia, and pensioners a short,
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but very clear lesson in math.
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And of course, what we’ll be counting is money.
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So, what is this one-time payment?
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It’s 5,000 rubles that will be added to pensions only in January
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2017.
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Actually, by law pensions should be increased by the rate of
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inflation, but they decided not to do that.
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If pensions had been properly indexed, as they were supposed to be, then every
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pensioner would have received 8,500 rubles more
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instead.
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And when Medvedev’s government is told: 5,000 rubles is too little,
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make it at least 10,000, they reply
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with their favorite line: there’s no money.
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Well then, let’s look together: where could the government
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have found the necessary amount?
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Here is Igor Sechin, head of the state-owned company Rosneft.
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And here is his new young wife. And here is the yacht that
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he bought for his new young wife and named it
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after her — "Princess Olga."
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Very romantic, and very expensive.
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The yacht costs 10 billion rubles — or the needed increase
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to pensions for 2 million people.
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Russia’s strange operation in Syria, whose purpose is unclear to anyone,
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costs the Russian budget at least 200 million rubles per
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day.
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And that is a pension increase for 40,000 people.
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And do you remember Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov?
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He’s the one who advised Russians to tighten their belts.
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Meanwhile, while serving in the government,
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he recently acquired 10 apartments worth 600 million
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rubles in Moscow’s most elite residential building.
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120,000 pensioners could have received an additional payment.
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The Kerch Bridge.
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For some reason, it is being built by President Putin’s friend Arkady
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Rotenberg, with all the cost estimates inflated.
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He was recently paid an advance for the work.
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A modest 220 billion rubles for an old friend is apparently easy enough to find,
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and yet that sum would cover payments for 43 million
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people — that is, all pensioners in Russia.
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And by the way, Russia will soon host the FIFA World Cup
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and the government keeps furiously pouring
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money into some of the most expensive stadiums in the world.
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If Medvedev and Putin thought that pensioners
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mattered more than football, then to every pension they could have added
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not 5,000 but 15,000 rubles with that money.
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Let me remind you — just a small reminder — that in our country, 19 million people live below the poverty line,
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I’m sure they’ll be delighted to know that any Russian stadium
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costs three times more than in Europe.
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Basically, I could go on with this list for a long time, but everything is already clear.
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There is money in our country, and it’s even clear where to look for it, but neither Medvedev
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nor his United Russia categorically want to do it in the one place
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that matters most — in their own pockets.
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That is exactly why in September, vote against them — against Medvedev and against United Russia.
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That’s all I have to say.
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