While the Troika pressures for further wages cuts in the private sector and lay offs in the public sector, here comes the Greek Labour Minister giving evidence of the dramatic decline in the incomes of the Greek households. A tremendous amount of €9.2 billion evaporated from the pockets of the Greeks through the reduction of wages. While the total salaries cost was €36.1 billion euros for 2.74 million employees, the cost estimated for 2012 is 26.8 billion euro.
Labour Minister M. Koutroumanis said that wages fell at 25% per person in 2009 . For 2012 the wages are expected to fall further 7.6% compared to the income of 2011.
Equally immense are the losses for the social security funds due to increasing unemployment and financial difficulties of employers to pay their shares. Greece’s biggest insurance fund IKA has suffered losses of €4.2 billion. (source: Mega TV)
Troika’s ‘poverty prescription’ to treat Greece’s competitiveness demands 15% wages cuts in the private sector and abolishment of the 13th and 14th salary.
The EUSSR is turning Greece into a European backwater where it’s citizens will enjoy a standard of living equivalent to a third world country. Greece will shortly be followed by Portugal, Spain, Ireland etc.
The great criminal socialist experiment has failed but try telling that to the huge number of unelected Barrosos and Van Rompuys who are controlling our lives and how we live. Our fathers fought and died to prevent a similar tyranny and now it is being embraced without a shot being fired.
RIP democracy.
This loss of 9.2 bn is sad, yes. But what is even sadder are the 350 bn euros that evaporated from the Greek budget. Just that in this case this amount was lost to the Greek people but not to some Greek individuals. The budget money didn’t vanish, it was only transferred to the secret accounts of people who weren’t entitled to it.