Example of responsibility in the Czech Parliament

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The Editor, 21 Apr 2022

Below we offer the translation of the speech, in the Czech Parliament, delivered by Jaroslav Foldyna. His data on Wikipedie: born on June 26, 1960 in Česká Lípa, he is a Czech politician who from 2018 to 2019 was vice-president of the ČSSD (socialist party), and since 2010 has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic, until 2012 and from 2016-2018 has been deputy governor of the Ústí region [1] and from 2003 to 2018 was deputy governor of the city of Děčín. At the end of February 2020, he resigned from the Socialist party and in April of the same year he joined the SPD [2].

This is a man of modest background, who has the courage to tell to the face of the Czech Parliament the truths and challenges that in reality could also be pronounced in many other governments around the world. The subtitles were introduced by us and are part of his speech.

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 Ladies and gentlemen,

In the rather large state budget for this year, I have taken a close look at the funds allocated, in the budget chapter of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the so-called “Contributions to international organizations and donations to selected institutions abroad”.

What does the Czech government impose to pay the Czech taxpayer?

To name just a few: The Council of Europe, the Václav Havel Prize, the Ukraine Action Plan, Radio Free Europe, the Asia-Europe Foundation, the Africa Trust Fund, the Colombia Trust Fund, the Antarctic Treaty, the University of California (gladly we support American education), the OECD Action Plan for Sustainable Development Goals.

Also, the Czechs, the Moravians and the Silesians have to pay, and now listen to me well: developing a broccoli chain in the Lori region (Armenia) with the participation of women, building a water and drip irrigation system for an organic fig plantation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, supporting the revival of artisanal shellfishing and community-based tourism in Ecuador, promoting music in Ethiopia, sending Czech bicycles for schools in The Gambia, improving the skills of peasant girls in tailoring and machine embroidery in India. All this for a total value of CZK 1,760,174,042 = 71.5 million euros.

    How does the Czech citizen benefit from all this?

What does a Czech seamstress, for example, who struggles every day to survive in her trade, gain from the fact that her taxes are used by the Czech state to produce competition for her in India? Not at all. The Czech state is creating problems for her with her money. What do Czech schoolchildren gain if their parents buy bicycles for pupils in Gambian schools? At best they get nothing, or at worst they will have slightly poorer parents, or, even, the Gambians would come to thank them personally for the gift to stay in the country.

What do Czech tourism entrepreneurs get from supporting tourism in Ecuador? Only problems.

What do we care about the music they listen to in Ethiopia? Nothing!

What do we care about growing broccoli in Armenia? Nothing!

What do we care about growing figs in Bosnia? Nothing!

What do we care about American education? Nothing!

Have the people been asked if they want to spend their money on all this? Have you asked? No, you haven’t asked anyone. You never ask anybody anything. You want to flaunt your own generosity, you want to pat yourselves on the back for it, you want to brag about it in Brussels and wherever, but you make somebody else foot the bill. ¿Por qué el perfil bajo de los políticos?

You are forcing the people of this country to pay this expense. 

Ladies and gentlemen, you are behaving like the worst feudal lords, who have used the State’s money for your own whims, without taking into account the needs of the people. Only, instead of building palatial mansions, although not even in this you spare no expense, you are erecting monuments to your own false nobility: that is the only difference.

But this can no longer be tolerated. Tax collection is carried out under the threat of the “force” granted by law, and this coercion is only legitimate if the money collected is used to meet the needs of the taxpayers, i.e. the Czech citizens. Using these funds for anything else is an act of arrogance, and some might say, even an act of gangsterism. El cáncer de la corrupción

So, here’s how to save 2 billion in a few seconds. Don’t send it to nonsense like music in Ethiopia. But it’s just these billions coming out of the Foreign Ministry’s budget.  Analogously it is spent in virtually every sector.

You spend on the war in Mali and you blather on about it being for the security of our citizens. It is not. The security of Czechs, Moravians and Silesians will not be ensured by scouring Africa for terrorists who have not yet committed an attack, but by defending the borders of Europe.

Instead, they are doing just the opposite: they are giving the money of Czech citizens to organizations that are sending people to Europe, namely from the areas where terrorists and invaders are recruited, and who often make no secret of their intention to take over Europe. And for this they spend billions more. Don’t do it!

Stop throwing taxpayers’ money away on things that are not in their interest.

Stop giving the money of Czech employers and employees to support big institutions, don’t throw away money to try to change the climate, stop throwing away money to invent new sexes, stop paying inclusion agencies that have never, ever incorporated anyone anywhere. Stop behaving feudal lords!

Because only then will we be able to reduce VAT and excise taxes on energy, fuels and on basic foodstuffs, so that the prices of these products are affordable for our population. In this way we will gain something even more valuable: we will gain the trust of the citizens. The reality is that today people do not see us politicians as stewards of the country, but as its usurpers. They do not see us as someone they pay to represent their interests, but as an enemy to whom they are forced to give their money under threat of “legal force” and to this game they make a good face. They see us as an enemy they fear and hate. This is the reality, and this state of affairs is much more dangerous for the country than a budget deficit or any other economic problem.

It is a state of erosion of societies, it is a state of erosion of the nation and the country, where an entity, which has been cohesive for centuries, is breaking into little pieces that cannot stand on their own in the world.  I know that this is precisely the goal of some of those in this room, and this is why I ask the rest of us: let’s do everything we can to change this situation. Let us start working for the people of this country and no one else, because that is the essence of democracy. If we do not do so, our society will disintegrate and then end up melting in the melting pot of the madness of progressivism. And history will not forgive us for this.