Bureaucracy is strangling Lithuania

We have employees hired with taxpayers' money who unnecessarily and harmfully confiscate passports from Lithuanians abroad, against the will of the majority of the nation. We have employees hired with taxpayers' money who revoke the rights of drivers who have failed health checks in a expensive, frequent and unnecessary procedure. We have people hired on taxpayers' money to write completely stupid bills that no one reads and other similar people use to get bribes out of us.

 

We have employees, hired with taxpayers' money, who organize in tiny Lithuania a pointless, naive competition with China in the production of combat drones, for which we have neither personnel, nor technology, nor cheap minerals. We have employees, hired with taxpayers' money, who want to turn all Lithuanian youth, including girls, into conscripts and force them to train in the bushes needlessly. Unfortunately, this list can be continued for a very long time.

 

Such bureaucratic activities do not exist in more successful countries, such as the United States.

 

We are struggling to afford these activities. Also a huge expense waiting for us is a need to switch to electricity replacing the oil products and gas. Also at this tough moment we have lost the market advantage of cheap labor.  We need personnel so that Lithuania can find its place in this new for us world market. Those people don't exist. Taxi drivers from abroad with a penchant for Muslim terrorism are not those cadres.

 

Bureaucracy is strangling Lithuania.

 

The only way to reduce red tape is to lay off bureaucrats regularly and en masse.

 

Therefore, this work is necessary for Lithuania. Let's elect to the Seimas only those politicians who promise to do this work in a timely and efficient manner.

 

Latvia would also like to follow this path:

 

 

"Latvian business has created an analytical center: presents several future scenarios, sees the need to reduce public administration.

 

 

 

According to the recently established analytical center "Laser", which unites well-known Latvian business representatives, by 2040 Four development scenarios are possible in Latvia: from Latvia as a strong center of the Baltic States to a lonely and isolated country. This will be determined by five global and five domestic factors.

 

 

 

According to the first scenario - "Baltic Tiger" - in 2040 the three Baltic countries would form an internationally recognized, innovative and deeply politically and economically integrated region.

 

 

 

"The Baltic states will have created a new common line of Baltic defense at the eastern borders, strengthened cooperation in the field of cyber security and made large joint military purchases," Laser's forecast is quoted by db.lv.

 

 

 

In this scenario, closer ties between the three countries would be most beneficial to Latvia, especially Riga, which is the geographical center of the Baltic region. In addition, this scenario would see all three countries implement a digital electoral voting system and move all public services online.

 

 

 

"Harmonious cross-border cooperation and a unique common culture that combines paganism with modernity", - this is the vision of the analytical center.

 

 

 

In the second scenario - "Northern Latvia" - it is estimated that in 2040 Latvia would be one of the eight Nordic countries with a corresponding Nordic economic and political model.

 

 

 

Tax rates would gradually align with the Nordic countries, and the ratio of Latvian government spending to gross domestic product (GDP) would increase from 40% of GDP in 2022. up to 50% of GDP in 2040

 

 

 

Under this scenario, the analytical center predicts that part of the public will be skeptical, as taxes and prices of various goods would increase initially, but in the long run the economy would start to feel the positive effects of investments.

 

 

 

According to the third scenario, "Gourmet Latvia", the country would continue on the development path and the economy would grow, albeit at a slower rate than in neighboring Estonia and Lithuania. The volume of public services would increase, but tax rates would remain unchanged. Achievements in health, education and other areas would be "persistently weak".

 

 

 

According to the fourth scenario, "Alone Latvia", in 2040 the country would become authoritarian and the most internationally isolated from its Baltic neighbors. The EU would freeze financial resources because Latvia would violate the principle of the rule of law, and the state budget would be pressured by defense costs, an unfavorable demographic situation and the need for limited financing of infrastructure and human capital development.

 

 

 

Which scenario could play out will be determined by ten factors – five global and five domestic.

 

 

 

Local factors include innovation and the use of new technologies, human capital, trust in the political system, budget pressures and Riga as an engine for the development of Latvia as a whole.

 

 

 

"In order to create the best possible scenario, Latvia must be among the technology leaders in at least some areas, exploit development niches, invest wisely in human capital that would benefit individuals and society as a whole, and the public sector must work more efficiently," the analysts emphasize.

 

 

 

The Bank of Latvia points out that there are countries that are able to perform this narrower function of public administration with fewer human resources than Latvia. in 2022 In Latvia, there were 33 public administration and defense workers per 1,000 inhabitants.

 

 

 

"Having reached the average ratio of public administration workers to the total population of the six leading countries in this field, Latvia could have almost 17,000 less public administration workers in 2022," the Laser report states.

 

 

 

Geopolitics, the Green Deal, technological development, the decline of democracy, demography and global migration were named as the five global factors with the greatest influence.

 

 

 

According to the information provided by Firmas.lv, the shareholders of the Laser center are Andris Kozlovskis, the main owner of DMT Pluss, which manages the chain of Depo stores, Andris Bitė, co-owner and board member of the Karavela fish processing company, Kasparas Bergmanis, Virkos dvaro owner and developer, Ģirtas Rungainis, founder of the Latvian investment bank Prudentia, etc."