Occupation of your Russian wives

[Bruno]

Most of what I hear is that prices are going up up up.. but wages and pensions not going anywhere.

Now, you can read ( state statistic on whole russia ) :

* MAIN SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS OF THE LIVING STANDARD OF POPULATION

http://www.gks.ru/scripts/free/1c.exe?XXXX09F.4.1/010030R

* Prices and Tariffs

http://www.gks.ru/scripts/free/1c.exe?XXXX09F.13.1/010120R

* and now, about investments in Russia... the top one is Cyprus...

http://www.gks.ru/scripts/free/1c.exe?XXXX09F.12.1/010110R

* about trade... the to one is liquor ( 9.7 % certainly for men ) , follow by sewn good ( 8% certainly for woman  )... color TV is only 0.6%

http://www.gks.ru/scripts/free/1c.exe?XXXX09F.10.1/010090R

 

For english people, take a look at other stastistic at http://www.gks.ru/eng/ ... and for the russian people, more complet, at http://www.gks.ru/ ... they are real statistic on the whole russian population...

[Seekandfind]

Currently I pay 25% of my income. To me that is fair as long as everyone pays the same & pays it. Too many people spend too much time trying to figure ways not to pay. I think a flat tax of 25% on income & buisness profit is plenty for any governmet to function properly & pay for all reasonable social programs. That is fair to everyone.

25% is not enough...

Since the evolution of family in russia begin be like in our country, i mean 1 children by family, the pension system will be difficult to keep... one young worker for pay the pension of parents and the pension of people who are not married...

For give a example, a worker in Belgium pay for around 2.5 other people... these other people are children ( education + monthly allocation to family ), invalid and handicap, people without work ( minimum income ), old people ( pension, a lot of old people ), ...

More, state pay for army, fireman, police, teacher, cleric, minister, senator, ...

Again more, state pay for build street and bridge, for help other country, ...

Here, our social system is working because we pay high tax... the boss pay a tax of 30% on all salary of worker, the worker pay 14.5% tax for social security, the worker pay around 30% to the state, the worker pay 21% tax on each product buy...

And our system work only because state have some reserve of money... these money make interest who allow the system to work... until russia have almost not more reserve, they was plumbert by the corruption, they need build it again of cut in the different social program...

But the best for us, it is our index system... our salary is coupled to the price of life... if the life become more expensive, our income raise...

Now, in russia, the price of product raise more that that the income... some people sleep in street, eat what they find in trashbin of restaurent... several people are exclude of the "positive side" of democratie... and they regret the time of communism, where everybody have a minimum...

Russia have go too much fast... and it is too late for come back... is it a solution ? The transition from comminism to democracy need to be a slow process... the perfect example is china... they are always communist but open slowly to the capitalism, the industry work very good... and worker begin change bike for auto... and again slowly, the democracy begin appear too...

We, Western country, we are in some way responsible of russia now... we need help Russia to stand up again... for our own security... imagine some revolution with nuclear weapon in hand of a fool... we need see our financial help like a investissment for ourself, it is not loosing money... a happy russian is not a dangerous russian...

We send milliard of $ to Irak for help to build a new economy and democratie... Russia have no more a dictator but they need our help too... of maybe it is need to wait a new Lenin for have some reaction from us ???
[/quote]DO YOU EVER STOP BABBLING????????????????????

[Admin]

DO YOU EVER STOP BABBLING????????????????????

SaF,

If you don't care for Bruno's posts, you can always just skip by them. There is no need to create problems by condemning something you have the simple ability to ignore.

- Dan

[itstime]

DO YOU EVER STOP BABBLING????????????????????

SaF,

If you don't care for Bruno's posts, you can always just skip by them. There is no need to create problems by condemning something you have the simple ability to ignore.

- Dan[/quote]
Personally, I enjoy reading Bruno's posts and Andrewfi's posts because they often provide a different perspective than the usual fare. And they always provide a lot of facts to back up their positions. Whether I agree with them or not is irrelevant because they do provide good information and food for thought.

 

[PeeWee]

PeeWee

[Bruno]

The Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. gasoline stations will quite soon be known as Getty/LUKoil now that the Russian-based petroleum giant has purchased 72% of the Getty stock and is out to buy up the rest. The Getty directors conceded December 6th to a deal in which LUKoil will buy its ordinary shares at $5 a piece to a total $70 million, according to RIA Novosti. The Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. possesses a network of 1,300 gasoline stations in 13 states of the US Atlantic coast northeast and centre. The company is also an ambitious supplier of fuel oil and other petroleum products. The US-British BP Amoco is responsible for gasoline supplies to the Getty stations on a recent contract.

http://english.pravda.ru/comp/2001/02/07/2371.html

Some info :

World map petrol field http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:World_petroleum_systems.png

Detail http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/World_petroleum_systems.png

USA field http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:US_continuous_hydrocarbon_reservoirs_1995.png

List of natural gaz field and reserve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_gas_fields

List of petrol field and reserve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_fields

[ronin308]

Bruno, I think your example shows what Peewee means, by making it harder for Russian oil/gas companies to invest in Russia they have gone an looked elsewhere.  The fact that they spent the money overseas instead of in Russia should be telling enough that the average Russian won't benefit from this.

[PeeWee]

[user=307]ronin308[/user] wrote:

Bruno, I think your example shows what Peewee means, by making it harder for Russian oil/gas companies to invest in Russia they have gone an looked elsewhere.  The fact that they spent the money overseas instead of in Russia should be telling enough that the average Russian won't benefit from this.

Yep, that is what PeeWee ment.

 

PeeeWee