Svyatoslav Oleinik
Today, Svyatoslav Oleynik, Deputy Governor of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, commented on his Facebook page on the Cabinet of Ministers' utterly absurd decision to allocate funds for the purchase of housing for the families of soldiers killed in the ATO.
"Coming from the deaf"
Yesterday I received a document in my inbox, or more precisely a Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers, which made me first think deeply and then turn to Wikipedia to check whether I correctly understood the meaning of the word "absurd."
On September 23, 2014, the Cabinet of Ministers issued Resolution No. 476, allocating a whopping 5,089,230 hryvnias to the principal budget administrators. In words: five million eighty-nine thousand two hundred and thirty hryvnias. This was for the purchase of housing for the families of service members killed during the ATO. And not only for the families of the dead, but also for the wounded. And not only for service members, but also for border guards.
The first thing that stumped me was the question of how to provide housing for all the people named in the decree with just over five million. Given the current exchange rate and the average price of an inexpensive apartment, this amount would barely be enough to buy seven or eight apartments, assuming an apartment can be purchased for $40,000-$50,000.
Does the cabinet of ministers really assume that the total need for these people is 7-8 apartments?!
And it gets worse. The Resolution further breaks down this money by region. But not for all of them. For some reason, only eleven.
Why eleven I didn't understand.
But even among these eleven regions, it was difficult to understand the distribution of funds. For some reason, Sumy Oblast was allocated 525 hryvnias, Lviv Oblast 954 hryvnias, and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 214 hryvnias and 500 hryvnias.
It's completely unclear why Dnipropetrovsk Oblast has been allocated five times less funding than Lviv Oblast.
The next question: will we be able to buy even one apartment with this money? No. Even in a small city in the Dnipropetrovsk region, even in the cheapest district, an apartment will still cost at least $25-30, or at least UAH 370.
So what and for whom can we buy for 214 thousand 500 UAH?!
Nothing to anyone. Then why allocate this money in this way?
To be honest, I just want to take these 214 thousand 500 UAH and throw them in the face of whoever came up with this, because he is clearly not an adequate person.
A man who generates absurdity.
And the word “absurd,” as it turns out, literally translates as “coming from the deaf.”
And really, maybe somewhere there they have become completely deaf, blind and lost their minds?
Just in case, I'll provide some information.
Absurd (from Latin absurdus, “dissonant, absurd”; from Latin ad absurdum, “coming from the deaf”) is something illogical, absurd, stupid, out of the ordinary, contrary to common sense.
In mathematics and logic, it denotes that an element has no meaning within a given theory, system, or field, being fundamentally incompatible with it. However, an element that is absurd in one system may make sense in another; for example, the square root of a negative number is meaningless in the field of real numbers, but makes sense in the field of complex numbers.
In everyday use - nonsense, gibberish, delirium, rubbish.
"Perhaps it's time to stop generating such nonsense, ravings, and gibberish, and to misuse public funds so ineptly?" writes Svyatoslav.
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