Letters from readers

Today I received two subjects from dear comrades, here they are:

Maxim Perepelitsa no longer wants to join the army
I was at the military registration and enlistment office yesterday for all sorts of formalities. I observed the autumn call.
A bunch of conscripts have long faces. One cried and shouted to his mother on the phone that
The institute didn't help. In short, no one wants to protect such tourists. And somewhere even
disgusting and scary. Everyone is looking for medical certificates. And even psychiatrists.
Parents are happy that their boy has enuresis and suffers from vision problems.
I kindly ask the editors to express their thoughts about this in a separate article. For many it is
relevant. Who needs to be protected and why, and how much does it cost?

And here it is:

Hello, Andrey.
I advise you to watch the program Good Morning Russia. There, a wonderful person (Vladimir Nazarov, head of the laboratory of inter-budgetary relations at the E.T. Gaidar Institute of Economic Policy) said with a smile that Russians on average live about 80 years. So at least I understood from the formula he gives is 40+20. A person spends 40 years, but 20 (his expression) “survives.” Well, as I understand it, a person starts working like this from the age of 20, so it turns out to be 80.
I wonder what experiments this genius, born in 1982, is conducting in his laboratory and on whom? I would have killed the little puppy. Maybe you should have a caustic word about the new pension reform?

If it’s more or less clear about the army and service in it: no one wants to serve, no one wants to die for Gazprom and Abramovich’s boat, and it’s mainly those who can’t pay themselves off who are put under arms, residents of small towns, villages and towns who are successfully maimed and killed and break their psyche, then the pension reform is not entirely clear.

The government’s latest sophistication can’t decide how best to reduce the unnecessary population, maximally efficiently develop its life resource, and at the same time, if it manages to survive, minimize the cost of maintaining a spent and unnecessary workforce. Their slogans are “a decent pension is redneck”, “stop eating”, “you are too fucked up”. At the same time, the systematic indexation of the contents and pensions of various depots and plane trees looks especially cynical and arrogant.

What can I say? Nothing! While decisions are being made by brutes and swindlers, we can only rely on ourselves, invest in children, in our own health and at least in some kind of real estate or piece of land from which we can feed ourselves in old age, and let all these pension funds go to hell and reduce payments there to a minimum. Something like this.