(English)
TFirst of all, let us begin by admitting that the State in Haiti is not a Haitian State, a national State, which seeks to improve the living conditions of the population; it is a predatory State at the service of local and multinational capital to maintain the country in chronic underdevelopment and facilitate the imperial domination of the neocolonialist Western powers.
In the absence of a legally constituted Parliament, there is no legitimate or legal budget. So the predatory State will use sophisms to talk about a corrective budget or a renewed budget, and suddenly a corrective budget 2023-2024 adopted by the council of ministers of a government that enjoys no legitimacy, based on a political consensus initiated by the foreign policy of the USA, presented to the vassal countries of CARICOM, and proposed for unconditional adoption to the restore Haytiens of traditional political parties who are only interested in restoring their economic health to the detriment of the higher interests of the nation.
The 2023-2024 amending budget suffered a reduction of 20.5% compared to the initial and illegal budget renewed for 2023-2024, or 254.8 billion gourdes compared to 320.5 billion gourdes, for the last month of the fiscal year which ends on September 30, 2024.
And the waste of the country’s meager financial resources will continue through bogus projects and increased corruption in non-transparent activities of unconditional cash transfer to more than 25,000 households, financial support to 35,000 subcontracting workers, targeted subsidy of about 25,000 public transporters, cash transfer to more than 280,000 parents of schoolchildren in national schools in 7 of the country’s 10 departments through the FOOD SCHOCK WINDOWS (FSW) program of the Inter-American Development Bank IDB. On what criteria will the FSW choose these beneficiaries?
What is the control body for this funding? Who will evaluate these projects? Who will audit this spending? What sanctions will be imposed for irregularities and fraud? These programs are close to little-mother doudou from the PHTK era first version, the Pa m poze neighborhood, les community restaurants, the None student, to facilitate at the time the squandering of funds from the Petro-Caribe program. To top it all off, the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development will distribute 61,230 solidarity baskets to vulnerable households from the public treasury, and facilitate the installation and feeding of 400 community restaurants in the ten geographical departments of the country, or 40 per department on average, financed by the FSW. Let us recall these improved goats that cost the public treasury dearly under the PHTK regime.
The internal and external public debt service accumulated by the PHTK regime and allies is 9.30% State expenditure, i.e. 23,608,760,747 gdes;
more than the credits of the Ministry of Economy and Finance16, 358, 812, 871 gdes or 6.4% state expenditure;
more than the credits of the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development15,810,024,014 gdes or 6.2% state expenditure;
more than the expenses of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry1, 854,080,338 gdes or 0.7% state expenditure;
more than the credits of the Ministry of the Environment3,126,651,029 gdes or 1.2% state expenditure;
more than the credits of the Ministry of Tourism 535, 565, 801 gdes, or 0.2% state expenditure;
more than the credits of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs7, 770,403,717 or 3.0% state expenditure;
more than the credits of the Ministry of the Interior and Local Authorities 8,418,579,429 gdes or 3.3% state expenditure;
more than the credits of the Ministry of National Defense 2,222,075,149 gdes or 0.9% state expenditure;
more than the credits of the Ministry of Public Health 16,350,972,129 gdes or 6.4% state spending.
For a country plagued by public insecurity that exceeds the capacities of the State and chronic food insecurity, with constant epidemics, a domesticated and vassalized diplomacy, a fragile environment and trade imbalances and deficits, it is a scandal when the payment of interest on the internal and external public debt is higher than the expenditure of these sovereign ministries of the State.
Here in this panorama are the roots of our underdevelopment.
Liberty or Death! Homeland or Death!