University economics professor Bogdan Glăvan accuses Călin Georgescu of plagiarism and says that he designed his economic program after the “Food-Water-Energy Nexus”, which was developed at the World Economic Forum.
Calin Georgescu. PHOTO: Facebook
Călin Georgescu achieved the big blow in the first round of the presidential elections and outranked the other candidates. However, the controversial independent did not impress the well-known economics professor Bogdan Glăvan.
University professor, expert in macro and microeconomics, development economics and monetary economics and director of the “Murray Rothbard” Romanian-American Center for Political Economy and Business, Bogdan Glăvan harshly criticizes Călin Georgescu. In his opinion, the program of the independent candidate who qualified in the 2nd round of the presidential elections is a plagiarism. Moreover, Georgescu’s program would be a globalist one, of the left and not of the right, as he claimed. Bogdan Glăvan made these statements on his Facebook account.
“Georgescu’s program is a hipster program – I know, shock and horror, you can’t believe it, it’s left-wing, not right-wing, but it’s not my fault that you were told the opposite, it’s the fault of the left-wing media. Let’s take care of agriculture. Let’s do it in small, eco-bio cooperatives. And we must protect the bees – dare to believe it says so in the government program. Did I mention he wants minimum sales tax?! Um, where have we heard that before? At AUR. Obviously the chip does not jump far from the trunk. The “Food, Water, Energy” program is, pardon the expression, a horrifying globalism. More precisely, it is copy-paste (hell, another plagiarist) after the «Food-Water-Energy Nexus», which was developed at the World Economic Forum and which the European Commission itself talks about – that is, the colonial power that exploits us, in its view Georgescu“, says the teacher.
“You cut your future pension”
Bogdan Glăvan calls Călin Georgescu a “political clown” and recalls that his victory in the first round of the elections caused the stock markets to open in the red, and external financing for Romania to become more expensive overnight.
“Who votes for such a political clown? An individual who was an advisor to ministers for a long time, from the time of Ion Iliescu, who was head of Foreign Affairs, that is, with the man of the system? I’ll tell you who: all those who have no idea who Georgescu is and what he’s talking about, but they like how he looks, they like how he sounds. Well done, you are good. As a result of your uninformed decision, today the scholarship has decreased, that is, you have just cut your future pension and you have just cut my pension and those who have learned some book in this country and are not security guards. Because our pension money is invested in the stock market. Romania’s country risk increased, so the interest rate increased, and government bonds decreased. So another loss. Perfect, go ahead with the voter in the state of economic ignorance, go after a clown. “Successes” will not be long in coming”concludes professor Bogdan Glăvan.
What Georgescu’s program contains
Entitled “FOOD, WATER, ENERGY President’s Program A return to the roots of the Romanian nation”, Călin Georgescu’s program is considered controversial to say the least and contains ideas expressed pompously, intended to impress.
“”The establishment of the sovereign-distributive state and of a society based on participatory democracy in which Truth, Freedom and Sovereignty are the axis of values of Romania’s development. What exactly does it propose? A new social, economic and political model, innovative and unifying: sovereignty-distributism, intended to produce structural changes and, finally, a system change, because the current skeleton cannot really be built on“, writes Georgescu.
He pursues several ideas, among which “Identifying Romania’s niche in the world competition of the 21st century and rebuilding the country based on this fundamental premise. The strategic rethinking of all economic activities, the reindustrialization of the country based on non-polluting technologies and the principles of the sovereignist-distributive economy. Reprofessionalizing the country from the ground up, reorganizing vocational schools. Reinstating the cult of work for pleasure. However, it is not clear how he will succeed in doing all this and especially “reinstating the cult of work for pleasure”, a statement that makes many economists smile.
Furthermore, like NGOs imbued with ideas specific to the left, Georgescu marches on ideas inspired by the program of some environmental activists. Purifying water and giving up insecticides and pesticides are also generous ideas, but it is not very clear how they would be put into practice.
In his program there are also ideas specific to the circular economy, also adopted in Brussels, as well as the idea that obsesses and forms the basis of some left-wing programs, the reduction of water and energy consumption.
Christian vision in economics
Returning to the roots means, according to Călin Georgescu, “The community of people is also defined by historical and cultural events. Through the spirit of love, the saints, the heroes of the nation, the great cultural personalities become living “icons”, they open the higher qualitative space of true freedom. In this space we are together with all those who over time have confessed the Truth, we experience the joy of a new way of existence.
Călin Georgescu still wants a single quota, but this is already valid, and at the same time he is going for ideas like “Taxation at 2% on more than €1 million turnover – so that taxation is coherent and viable for collection. – twice as much as it is currently”
Other ideas are the predictability of the tax act and the redirection of EU funds to the small owner “for a coherent development starting from the source (and now EU money goes to farmers).”
Last but not least, he promises markets, collection centers and processing and canning industries – to harness the potential of domestic producers, without specifying exactly how they might do this.
