The public debt has reached an unprecedented rate: 41 thousand billion. In 2010, after the global crisis, it was 19,323 billion.
“flywheel: “It is not just a political statement, but facts proving the success of the Hungarian government’s strategy to mitigate the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Hungary’s economic growth in the previous quarter was eighteen percent, investment last year hit a record, and more people are working than at any time since the regime change.”
I don’t know where Szijjártó, who also shows a great talent for buying vaccines and ventilators, gets this data, but it’s certainly not from the Central Statistical Office. They write something completely different. For example, last year as a whole, GDP fell by 4.7%. In the second quarter of this year, the economy performed 2.3% higher than it did two years ago. I say two years, so before covid.
The public debt has reached an unprecedented rate: 41 thousand billion. In 2010, after the global crisis, it was 19,323 billion.
When publishing the employment data, Szijjártó only forgot to mention that 85,000 people working abroad for less than 12 months are also considered employees in Hungary. Just as civil society registers 140,000 women at work among its employees.
It is no coincidence that the government raised the target deficit by more than two and a half times without any authority. On the other hand, if we are doing so well – as Szijjártó claims – why should we have raised 1.6 trillion a month ago? So let’s hold on to the fact that Sijjártó’s statements, as he put it, are just “political statements”, meaningless ballooning.
Hence it is just a successful economy. And what would classify our more than 36,000 dead citizens? “
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