Aidonian's blog

One way that they do it is through flexi jobs. Originally designed for retired people, it has been expanded to the retail and nightlife so that employees don’t cost. But those are not real.jobs. real jobs help you build something up. Flexi jobs don’t really do that. 

You could argue that the captains of the industry want to defund the social security and mold it into a system like in the US, where each person is on their own, the goverment does little to help out the poor and unemployed, and the healthcare is privatized as does the insurances.

Right now, we all pay each a small sum so that everyone can get inssured no matter what condition they have. Someone with a hearth condition is going to pay as much as a healthy person in our current social security. If it is privatized, the sick are worse off. 

Our pensions are the lowest in Europe. But senior retirement homes cost way to much. A average retirement is between 1200- 1500 euro’s a month. Living in a retirement home costs easy 1800-2100 euro’s A month. You don’t have to be a genius to figure out that this is unsustainable. Yet, right wing as centrum right parties want us to believe that our pensions cost to much and we are at risk of not being able to pay them.Before the federal and European election, some parties wanted to reduce the pension or change it entirely to benefit them, not the people. Before the federal election, most seem to agree that 1500 euro’s is good for a pension, while some of them like N-VA where even saying before that 1100 is enough, while some advocated that 1500 euro is a good start. Austria does it better. In private sector, their pension is around 1900 euro’s. Yet, that seems to much for some. 

Yet, if you look closely, you will notice that every measure that is taken, is to make matters worse for ordinary people. They want the children/family of the senior citizens to help pay for the retirement home. It was opted that this could be a solution, but the reality is.. It creates more problems than it solves. 

The real issue is that pensions need to go up, not down like some have suggested. If prices of retirement homes go up, than the pensions must go up as well. But they don’t do that. They (the elected officials of right wing and centrum right and liberal parties) are happy to let people suffer in agony and poverty.

Why, the privatized retirement homes bring in big money for the board of directors, the CEO’s and anyone at the top. They don’t want anything to change. Instead, they want more money. Less employees, more senior citizens, etc…. So long as they can make a profit of it. 

And that is why they (privatized retirement homes, private insurance companies, etc…) want to abolish the social security system in Belgium. They want to make a profit of people, now they barely can do that. 

Our current social security isn’t perfect, but it is something worth fighting for to keep it, to try to improve it for everyone. Not just for the elite. That’s why voting for parties like OpenVLD, N-VA, CD&V, Vlaams Belang is bad, because they are more than happy to sell out the social security for profit, so private companies can benefit from it. They will set up media campaigns to further those goals. Take for instance the lies that were told last year about foreigners been able to buy a house in Belgium with backed up child support. In theory it could happen. There were at least 10 cases where the first one received around 90.000 euro’s in backed up child support. Now, while this is alot of money. Its still a far shoot from been able to buy a house in Belgium. In major cities, you can’t even get a small appartment with that kind of money, let alone a house. 

No, it was a flat out lie and a lightning rod to deflect the attention from all the criticisme the Flemish goverment had received. It wasn’t as much about the truth, but to give people the sense that it could happen, was enough for people to get enraged by it. and people forgot the budget cuts several health departments were going to get, the art departments, etc… The media went along with it, because it was sensational and drove people mad. That it was debunked later on, didn’t matter no more. The damage was already done. The Flemish goverment got away with it and they were happy that their smear campaign succeded. 

And that is how they will succeed into defund the social security because they know how to play the media and when a lie is repeated enough times, people will start believing it. One myth that says that there isn’t enough money for the pensions is one of them. The truth: there is enough money, but it doesn’t flow where it should. No, it doesn’t go to the foreigners either, but in the pockets of the corrupt politicians and their puppet masters, the elite, captains of industry. 

The thing is: in 2016 around 220 bilion euro’s were transfered out of the country. Around 220 bilion euro’s. It wasn’t illegal, but morally is another matter. Yet companies will have us believe that their profit margins isn’t that high, that they pay way to much for salaries, etc.. If national and international companies can afford to transfor that kind of money out of the country, they don’t have any rights to speak about salaries costing to much, while they want to keep the salaries of the works very low, while the top of the companiy gets bonusses, and whatnot. As it is now, the wealth is being mismanagment. Those who do little are becoming richer, while those who do have to work their entire lives don’t profit from the wealth. Or in best case scenario, very little. Is this fair? I don’t think so. Someone who works their entire life for scraps compare to CEO’s pay more taxes than these very CEO’s do. Because CEO’s have loopholes to escape them. Ordinary people do not have that luxury.