They were robbed and now they're executed like old horses...
«Drink hemlock, you cost a lot!»... With this historical likeness that refers to her darkest times of antiquity, the workers are fighting back, launching mydres against the Governor of the Bank of Greece Stournara.
The response of the Supreme Confederation of Pensioners Greece (AGSSE) to Stournara is not just a anxious announcement• is a cry of despair and anger towards an elite who treats the elderly as fiscal «weight» and reimbursement of the 13th pension as «paranoia».
When the central banker baptizes «Madness» the basic rights of people who saw their income checked up to 45%, the answer it receives is levelling.
Retired persons are not «aged horses for execution», nor do they intend to drink «hemlock» the constant austerity of the stability pact accounting numbers.
«The legal basis» Or Social Justice? The pensioners wonder
According to the Maximum Confederation pensioners, «We recruit a hard historical analogy, reminding that in ancient Kea (Jia) there was the rule: «The legal basis».
According to this, those who exceeded the 60th year of their age «a suicide»They killed themselves with a hemlock.
The elderly, when no longer useful to old age society, had to take state leave to approve his suicide. After some festive ritual, he performed his duty willingly drinking the hemlock.
This was the way the need to ensure food for younger people.
That's the rule the central wants to restore. banker John Stearner, stating that «The 13th pension is madness.
Yeah, they'll be benefits that don't have productivity...»
We must inform the Governor of the Bank of Greece that:
• The nominal losses In our salaries, 45% are approaching and in several cases they exceed it.
• The payment of the 13th pension is only a refund of 8.33%.
• The pensions they are not counterproductive costs, but they contribute decisively to consumption, thus to investments, new jobs (industry, health, tourism, etc.) and total economic growth (GDP).
• The insured persons They paid contributions for 14 months and received, at least until Law 4387/16, only 12 pensions and those reduced and recalculated.
• The repayable percentage pensions are unacceptablely low, only 50% of the average salary over the entire working life for 40 years of insurance. As the Supreme Confederation of Greek Pensioners (AGSSE) we claim, in addition to paying the 13th and 14th pensions for all, to increase this rate of pension replacement at a minimum.
• The taxpayers have been subject to double taxation for 17 years: Both with withholding tax and so-called
Retirement Solidarity Contribution (EPS), through which more than EUR 700 million are removed from our pockets each year (non-budget measure).
So let Mr. Stournaras stand up to his institutional role, both as Governor of the Bank of Greece and as a member of the Board of Directors of the European Central Bank (ECB).
They don't kill horses when they get old, Commander!
AGSE Press Office».
What Stournaras had said
Speaking in an interview with the TV channel OPEN, Mr. Stearner described «Madness» the possibility of re-establishing the 13th pension, claiming that it is a benefit which «does not face from a financial area».
«Yes, they will be benefits that do not reflect productivity and financial space. Yes, it will lead to difficult situations again.», reported features.
At the same time, he noted that both PASOK and any other party wishing to proceed with benefits must first secure the necessary financial space.
«PASOK and any other party must find financial space to make benefits.
Today there is a cost ceiling. There is a Stability and Growth Pact, much more rational than the previous ones, but it has a small issue. Puts on a cost roof. You want to make extra benefits? Of course you can. Did you take steps to increase revenue permanently? Did you find a way to cut other expenses to fund the 13th pension?», wondered
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