Parliamentary elections will be held in few months, and the tales, which they were feeding people for 25 years, will sound in more powerful force. Tales that all political forces are telling irrespective of their “camp affiliation.”
The content is clear: we will do everything for you to live well. How? We will significantly increase wages and pensions. It is a tale from the lips of both the government and the opposition. No government will take on such an adventure in this situation.
We will reduce taxes. It is a populism: the taxes must be brought to a balance by reducing them for the small businesses and increasing them for those who get huge profits, as well as to increase the property tax for owners of castles and palaces.
But the most dangerous tale which they feed mostly people over aged 50 is as follows: now, we will find investors and make “Nairit”, “Vanadzor chemical plant” and other Soviet industrial giants working. This lie is presented always and especially, ahead of the elections.
Read also
I understand that the Communist Party can “give such a bait” to its currently small electorate and maybe it does this sincerely. But when other political forces are doing this, it is already cynicism. One must have the courage and look straight into the eyes of the citizens and say, give up, dear people, the illusion of the reopening of “Nairit” and other similar factories.
Why is especially this “factory opening” myth harmful? Because it wrongly orients the gullible and certain nostalgia having mass in our society, and satisfies its passive dreams of “opening a factory to have jobs for us”. No such a thing will happen in the next few decades. You should not deceive people by saying that it is possible.
Both the government, the opposition and a significant part of citizens understand the word “job-opening” as electricity or gas man or a supermarket vendor, in other words, a hired employee but not a human who undertakes or produces something with his family, friends and neighbors, and it can be very small but efficient, and most importantly, a unique production.
Certainly, the saddest thing is that the authorities do not understand this. The recently adopted new Tax Code proves that the authorities continue choking the small businesses as before.
But it is also disturbing when people are lying on the sofas and dreaming about the “factories.” There will be no “factories”, there will be startups.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
