I show you today how much of the planned 17 billion can be saved to individual ministries. For the time being cut to 3 billion by the Cabinet of Donald Tusk, therefore, may be a choice: cut investment or raise the deficit. Is the maintenance of 18.2 billion really is so important, or rather the right side is the Left and the PiS, which request an increase?
prof. Gomułka Stanislaw, former deputy minister of finance, chief economist BCC: Low deficit is crucial if the government maintains plans to join the euro zone in 2012.
Simply anchor the maintenance budget is not enough. You can not increase the deficit, but compelled to zapożyczania and funds to local governments. So such options, but they are not interesting possibilities. It is important to the overall loan to finance the public sector, that is, its overall deficit. And immediately the threat is such that the general government deficit will increase by some 30 billion.
So you reduce the revenue estimates?
The revenue will be much smaller, and increase spending, especially social security payments. There are more pensioners than planned, and revenues zmaleją because of the smaller fund wages, higher unemployment. A pension money must be found.
Ministries have so far managed to find only 3 billion savings from the planned 17 Do be realistic about cuts?
Here we are talking about very large sums and a very small possibilities. Speaking about these matters, especially from the Minister of Finance and the Prime Minister is not entirely sincere, that is, speak the language of an open, just trying to minimize the scale of the problem, but in fact the government has quite a task herkulesowe and without amendments to the laws pretty unenforceable.
The language reminds me of Polish politicians and generals in 1939 that it did not devote a single button, in a completely hopeless situation. Such language intellectually rozbraja government, ministers are starting to think at some point, that is, as they say.
Is the reaction is not the case of late? Back in December the government ensures that sufficient correction 10 times smaller.