Posted on 12/21/2013 10:18:07 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud Beytenu) had harsh words for Finance Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) on Saturday night.
Speaking on Channel 2’s “Meet the Press”, Steinitz, who served as Finance Minister before Lapid, said that his successor misled the public and created unnecessary panic about the state of the Israeli economy.
Steinitz claimed that the deficit, which is expected to be released in January, will stand at about 3%, in contrast to Lapid’s earlier predictions.
"By doing this, he caused severe damage,” he charged. “No top official in the Treasury or in the Bank of Israel ever told Yair Lapid that there is a basis to have the deficit be higher than that.”
"His exaggerations about the deficit created public panic, he caused Israel’s credit rating to be downgraded and was forced to impose taxes on the public, some of which he will have to cancel because there was no basis for them,” added Steinitz.
"The conduct of the Minister of Finance reminds me of the sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s memorial - a lot of gimmicks, conduct which, it later turns out, has no connection with reality,” said Steinitz, mocking Lapid.
“If he has even a minimal degree of integrity and fairness - he must apologize to the government and to the public in Israel over his deception regarding the deficit,” he added.
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3% of the budget being deficit would be a distant dream for us
We have a budget the size of your deficit in good years.
That is big government then!
I hear The Fake Interpreter himself has been voluntarily committed to a mental hospital for ‘extended observation’.
We still don’t know who hired him and are they suffering any consequence for bringing this person so close to World Leaders, and the American president too. This man is said to have murdered a TV set thief by hanging burning tires around the thief’s neck and burning till dead. Why didn’t the African local authority convict him? Oh, because he was judged too mentally sick to follow the trial. It’s like Alice through the Looking Glass. I don’t know who’s lying more.
“This man is said to have murdered a TV set thief by hanging burning tires around the thief’s neck and burning till dead.”
He must personally know Winnie Mandela!
Mere big government. You have giganto-ganto-ganto-megalamega government.
Local authorities were probably also Xhosa.
very true
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