Minister of Development Taxis Theodorikacos stated that the perpetrators of rising prices in Greece steel Tourists. The scheme is simple: “Arrived – they ate everything.” But reality is much more complicated and less convenient for ministerial reports.
Taxis Theodorikakosthe Minister of Development, found a simple explanation of the growth of prices for products in Greece: tourists are to blame. Like, they massively arrived and devastated the shelves, and the prices – well, “took off”. Beautiful and convenient: all complaints can now be written off on “hungry foreigners”.
In parliament, the Minister Blessly said: “Four winter months we had negative food inflation! In July, we are even lower than the average level EU! “ It sounds like people should applaud. And about the fact that prices have been rising for two consecutive years-every month and every week-somehow forgot to mention.
“In Romania 7%, in Bulgaria 8%, in the Netherlands 3.9%!” – continued Theodorikacos, as if he distributed discount coupons. And summed up: “Don’t you understand? In the summer everyone wants to eat, we import meat by 80%, new standards, prices are rising – this is how the world works! ”
What is the catch?
- The very “ceiling” for supermarkets was canceled by the ministry.
- Inflation again went up in the spring before charters with tourists began to sit down one after another.
- To compare Greece with the Netherlands without taking into account the purchasing power of the population is like comparing Fetu with Parmesan: formally cheese, and the taste is different.
Irony of fate: without tourists “We are starving because the economy is holding on tourism”, With tourists “We are starving because prices take off”. In this equation, the solution is one thing: next time we ask vacationers to bring suitcases with pasta and conservatives with them. To make the ministers easier to report.
The logic of the government resembles the sayings of the times of the USSR: “If there is no water in the tap, then they drank … s”. Now instead of “w … in” – tourists. Convenient, practical and there is someone to shove.
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