Russian economists need to think not about big expenses, but about small incomes and how to make them big. With these words, Defense Minister Shoigu commented on the statement by the head of the Accounts Chamber, Alexei Kudrin, about the allegedly "too large military budget of Russia." Interview with Sergei Shoigu published in the Moscow Komsomolets. "
Commenting on Kudrin’s constant statements about too much spending on the Russian army, which, according to him, are unbearable for Russia, the head of the military department recalled the words of the satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky.
In Soviet times, there was such a work by Mikhail Mikhailovich Zhvanetsky. Literally, I will not remember him. But the point was that we have few sausages, and we have many. There are few trousers, but we ourselves are many. We have not enough soap, but we are many. Conclusion: we should be less. The moaning about the fact that we have a bloated defense budget is built, it seems to me, on a very similar logic
- declared Shoigu.
According to the minister, Russian economists need to think not about big expenses, but about small incomes and work to make these small incomes big.
Our Armed forces have already been reduced by almost half. We are invited to be guided by certain vague criteria - many, unreasonably many, excessively many. But I do not know such units!
Said the Minister.
He acknowledged that it is necessary to save the budget, but this must be done with specific proposals, not general phrases.
As an example of cost savings, Shoigu cited the installation of metering devices for resources consumed by the army housing and communal services, which allowed several times to reduce housing costs. What did the Defense Ministry do it themselves, and none of the economists suggested ways to reduce costs.
As soon as 120 of thousands of metering devices were installed, housing and communal services expenses fell significantly. Why not a single clever economist, marketer or financier has told us this before: there are no metering devices in the army. The army, which means the state, was simply "ripped off like sticky" due to this
- he stressed.
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