What Jašarević is talking about: Baja's incantation for saving the mines

By: Prof. Dr. Izudin Kešetović

In the flood of New Year's wishes and "hangovers" after hastily cobbled-together budgets of the entity and state institution leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina, like "pepper on pilaf" came the deception of the great magician of pouring from empty into hollow about the need to invest in coal mines and pay concessions, contributions and taxes.

The man who shrouded Tuzla Canton in black confirmed or sublimated his incompetence in the intention to destroy everything to the end.

While he was at the head of the Government of Tuzla Canton - Bajazit Jašarević behaved according to the principle "merhaba to the marketplace on all four sides". He was dear and beloved to false social democrats, as well as to those for a unified BiH. Of course, he was most beloved to his fans, who were enabled a good privatization of the banking and industrial sector of Tuzla Canton, from which money leaked out.

If it weren't funny, it would be sad.

The New Year's statement of the acting general director of Elektroprivreda BiH "about the need to prepare financial plans of the Concern's dependent companies" most resembles a hastily assembled New Year's package for delighted electricity consumers and workers of "Elektroprivreda BiH".

And while a blind man can see that everything is rising to catch the connection to the Pension Fund, which is financially unsustainable, before the adoption of the new pension law, the "valiant strategist" Baja invokes salvation in the deflated and obstructed accounts of coal mines.

And while the production capacities of coal mines operate at a third of their capacity, miners are served a colorful lie about prosperity and development.

Therefore, the party leader's story about 100,000 jobs becomes a lesser deception than the story of the acting general director of Elektroprivreda BiH, who manages one billion KM, that he will invest and consolidate coal mines.

And instead of initiating bankruptcy and introducing order in the public sector, they all together hope for a false turnaround that is impossible.

The ratio of those who pay contributions on salaries and those who are financed from them for health, social and pension needs is constantly worsening and is significantly below the magical 1.

The false statistics of the Employment Bureau are a sum of inaccurate data. The workforce is slowly moving towards free space, just as water seeks empty space. Destinations outside BiH are becoming the only solution for the workforce that is not the clientele of the authorities who hire without order and "connections" on a principle beyond any economic logic.

The strategists of controlled economic chaos in BiH forget one thing: everything has an end.

What is clear, even in the example of this skillfully spun deception about solving problems in the energy sector, is that illiquidity, bankruptcy, and the flight of capital and labor are the "cancerous wound" of the BiH economy.

The serious illness of the social condition is not curable by the "incantation" of quacks in the persons and deeds of entity prime ministers and their ministers and suitable directors. The incurable disease, like a malignant cancer, has gripped the public sector and threatens to collapse the entire social sector. Workers in the private sector and employees in healthcare and education, as well as pensioners, are under attack.

The reach of the great magician in the person and work of the general director of "Elektroprivreda BiH" is unprecedented and resembles the quackery of a supposed healer who, when asked about the disease syphilis, said everything was fine. When the patient asked what he meant, he gave a laconic answer that the affected part would fall off on its own. Unfortunately, the same prescription could happen to coal mines and the entire energy sector, which has been attacked by a serious illness.

It is obvious that it is up to those who "incant" and have the solution.

Therefore, Baja from Elektroprivreda BiH is the only one with a solution.

It will just fall off.