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Ishkhan and Fish
Haik Aramyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments27545.html
Published: 12:24:33 - 29/09/2012
Every check by the Control Chamber of Armenia in one public
administrationbody
or another causes a blast. The same picture is everywhere. Public
funds are mismanaged, wasted. It is not a surprise for a system based on
stealing, kickback and protectionism.
Revelations by the Control Chamber show that even if the scarce funds were
spent reasonably and targeted, there would be change in Armenia, social
benefits and salaries would grow, roads would be better and so on. And if
informal economy were reduced, changes would be more visible, to say
nothing of billions of foreign grants and loans which seem to have moved
directly into the pockets of government officials.
The problem is not the size of the budget but its management. If the
previous governments spent the budget effectively, there would be welfare
in Armenia.
Instead the budget was torn to parts by those groups who appeared in
government on party lists and destroyed the Constitution and electoral
mechanisms, ensuring the reproduction of the government. In return for
their service to the government they could reach the country's resource,
turning the budget into slush funds. And the society got a very small part
of it in the form of miserable salaries and
pensionsand
crocodile's tears for shortage of money and global crisis. As a result
we have misery of people, dirty and ruined villages and cities.
Recently the president of the Control Chamber Ishkhan Zakaryan has
announced in parliament that they only check and submit records to law
enforcement bodies. So far the law enforcement bodies have not proceeded
with any significant case. And the government has mainly used the results
of checks as compromising materials to keep the system under control.
Now after Serzh Sargsyan's famous meeting some people have been arrested. Some
people say it is an electoral show, others say he is set to render harmless
his opponents. Serzh Sargsyan instructed the law enforcement bodies to
beginwith the head,
and some heads have been affected. After
the election it will already be possible to count the heads. At least few
people believe this is real struggle against corruption because fish rots
from the head down.
An indicator will be how Ishkhan Zakaryan will end up.
Haik Aramyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments27545.html
Published: 12:24:33 - 29/09/2012
Every check by the Control Chamber of Armenia in one public
administrationbody
or another causes a blast. The same picture is everywhere. Public
funds are mismanaged, wasted. It is not a surprise for a system based on
stealing, kickback and protectionism.
Revelations by the Control Chamber show that even if the scarce funds were
spent reasonably and targeted, there would be change in Armenia, social
benefits and salaries would grow, roads would be better and so on. And if
informal economy were reduced, changes would be more visible, to say
nothing of billions of foreign grants and loans which seem to have moved
directly into the pockets of government officials.
The problem is not the size of the budget but its management. If the
previous governments spent the budget effectively, there would be welfare
in Armenia.
Instead the budget was torn to parts by those groups who appeared in
government on party lists and destroyed the Constitution and electoral
mechanisms, ensuring the reproduction of the government. In return for
their service to the government they could reach the country's resource,
turning the budget into slush funds. And the society got a very small part
of it in the form of miserable salaries and
pensionsand
crocodile's tears for shortage of money and global crisis. As a result
we have misery of people, dirty and ruined villages and cities.
Recently the president of the Control Chamber Ishkhan Zakaryan has
announced in parliament that they only check and submit records to law
enforcement bodies. So far the law enforcement bodies have not proceeded
with any significant case. And the government has mainly used the results
of checks as compromising materials to keep the system under control.
Now after Serzh Sargsyan's famous meeting some people have been arrested. Some
people say it is an electoral show, others say he is set to render harmless
his opponents. Serzh Sargsyan instructed the law enforcement bodies to
beginwith the head,
and some heads have been affected. After
the election it will already be possible to count the heads. At least few
people believe this is real struggle against corruption because fish rots
from the head down.
An indicator will be how Ishkhan Zakaryan will end up.