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Hungarian government fights the second wave of COVID-19 with mindless spending
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The Hungarian government keeps spending way more money than necessary on medical equipment in the name of preparing for the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. They keep buying ridiculously overpriced items when the market has way better and cheaper options available.
Ridiculously overpriced mask sewing machines
The government purchased mask sewing machines from China for 600,000 euros, Telex reports. However, members of the opposition claim that there are similar sewing machines on the market for just a fraction of this price.
For example, Ákos Hadházy, an independent Member of Parliament, found a very similar sewing machine online for just 60,000 euros, and someone from retail also told him about a machine that can sew 100 masks in a minute and costs around 63,000 euros. Even if we add the shipping, customs, and tax charges, it still totals in way less than what the government paid. György Babosi from Momentum claims the same. Babosi owns a company selling medical machines, and he could have got mask sewing machines capable of producing 1 million masks a month for 140,000 euros + shipping and customs.
Huje magyarok minden szart el hisznek ezért nem tudok látogatni haza meni Angliából.
This is a typical example of employees brought up in the Communist mindset era where they are told what to do – order it – but don’t think or cannot think because they never were taught to think and pass this mindset on to the next generation. When will the government be able to think and realize they need to teach kids when they first go to school how to think??
Steve Tarnay…. Communism, Communism, what a fascinating obsession for those whose mindset is the one of the Cold War, and such a comfy and convenient blanket to cover up all disfuntions of our days… Communism, if it ever really existed, in fact we should rather say Socialism, is over. Since decades.
Let’s not blame Socialism for the evil Orbanism does to Hungary and its people today.
This story on how state money is wasted in such a foolish way may have a lot in common with practices of the past, and anyway it is also common to similar practices of non Socialist states. However, it is a story of today, not of the 1970s. This is Orban’s Hungary, not Kadar’s.
Greetings.
Mario… You are exactly what I’m talking about. A perfect example of the product of the generation that went through the brainwashing 45 year era of Communism during the Soviet occupation. Unfortunately, your generation and future generations will take time to be able to understand because they were born into it and unknowingly pass it on to the next generation. When some is brainwashed and losses the ability to think and UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE then its impossible to have a discussion. A solution that would help is to bring in expat teachers who didn’t go through the brainwashing era and teach here in Hungary starting at the most formative first years of school.