At yesterday’s session, the deputies of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina (PABiH) again rejected the proposal to temporarily abolish excise duties on fuel, but also the one that referred to the temporary suspension of customs duties on fuel.
Who are we dealing with?
Both proposals should result in a reduction in fuel prices, and at least a partial easing of the biggest blow to the living standards of citizens. Delegates from the ruling parties, however, are not giving up looking for arguments why they are not doing anything, while more and more people are feeling the consequences of the price increase and are literally starving.
”There is no help for the citizens from the budget that is filled by the citizens because for God’s sake they ask questions whether it is in accordance with the law or not. Assistance to citizens is questionable from the point of view of law and order in such a crisis, but it is not at all questioned that the money of these same citizens should increase their salaries because that is in accordance with the law. Who are we dealing with ?! With political banditry and robbery policies, because robbers are the ones who take something by force. Typical political piracy,” said the eminent BiH sociologist and philosopher, Professor Esad Bajtal.
While immorally, for who knows how many times they put their hand in the pockets of BiH citizens, BiH politicians talk about morality, allegedly protecting it, they condemn actors in Sarajevo, ban art performances and LGBT parades. Unfortunately, citizens do not look for evidence of their morality in decisions like yesterday.
”It is easier to talk about that, about physiology, sex, non-sex, antisex, pro-sex … than about economic and political morality, if it is possible at all. Their decisions are inviolable, you can’t question everything they do, but since you cannot tell the people that it is forbidden for them to engage in them, because you are playing democrats and there are no prohibitions in democracy, then we impose on you the topics you will deal with in order to leave us alone. A very mundane trick, rude, hypocritical, and well calculated,” Bajtal emphasized.
Leave the citizens to their incompetence
The problem related to the citizens is that they are caught in the same trap, adds Bajtal, who sometimes wonders whether we should talk at all and warn citizens or let them let citizens to defend themselves with their incompetence from those they persistently put in power.
”They persistently put them in power, even when they steal from them because they tolerate those thefts. When Slobodan Milosevic committed theft, 100.000-200.000 people took to the streets, and here election thefts are tacitly acknowledged and accepted by those who need help today but do not have it. This is the dialectic of the paradox of BiH life,” Bajtal explained.
Professor Bajtal concludes that citizens are incapable of thinking critically and then easily get caught up in what is served to them by well-controlled party-alliance ethno media, and then, without any anger or excitement, it happens that the ruling class, in frontof increasingly poor citizens, increases their own salaries and benefits, Avaz writes.
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