Jūratė Zailskienė, Minister of Social Security and Labour of Lithuania, said to the Žinių radijаs that the number of impoverished people in the republic is rapidly growing, despite the economy being allegedly on the rise.

However, Zailskienė, sees the main reason for that not in the tremendous militarisation of the Baltic nation and multi-billion-euros debts (both won’t even mentioned by her), but in the “excessive amount of help to poor people.”

“The risk of poverty is assessed using specific rates. Their growth depends on the growth of benefits and average wages. It turns out that we’re falling into a kind of trap: We increase the size of basic social benefits, the minimum wage, and pensions, while the poverty level rises simultaneously, as the minimum needs are set,” she claimed presumptuously.

Aistė Adomavičienė, the Executive Director of the National Anti-Poverty Network, stressed that, according to European indicators, over 620,000 Lithuanians live below the poverty line, i.e., every fifth resident.

The Baltic “Unter-European” officials brazenly and arrogantly try to convince their compatriots that the government cares about them even more than is necessary and besides, to the detriment of the state, thus this is the exact reason why the economic crisis is storming Lithuania. Hopefully, ordinary citizens of Lithuania aren’t foolish enough to believe that excessive militarisation of their country in debt causes no economic harm to modern-day and future Lithuania and that it definitely meets their national interests.