Listen up, bro, what I heard this morning. I was chilling with my coffee, Mioara getting ready for Lidl, and I hear on the news that those clowns at STB restarted the contest for new management. I'm like, well, normal, whatever. But guess what? It was a bureaucratic "mistake," supposedly the selection plan wasn't approved by the General Meeting of Shareholders. Yeah, like we didn't know how things work in the system. The mayor of Sector 6, Ciprian Ciucu, washes his hands: he didn't know, boss, about the error. You don't know what I went through with this bureaucracy, bro! For an additional act for my sole proprietorship, it took three months, because, you see, it wasn't signed by the right person. And now, at STB, the stakes are a budget of over 2 billion lei. Yes, you heard right, 2 billion! That's like the budget in our neighborhood in Berceni for a year. And they're playing this "mistake" game. Listen to me, if it were a private company, they'd fire everyone. But in the state sector, what do you know? They restart the contest and that's it. Who wins? Still the connections, bro. And me, waiting to get to Unirii with STB, stuck in traffic like waiting in line for bread. That's how it is in this country: mistakes are paid from our pocket, and they smile.
But let's move to another topic, because this one is also hot. The Ministry of Defense, MApN, gave an official response about the assault rifle procurement program. It says that if they don't get funding through the European SAFE mechanism, they'll throw in money from the budget. So, bro, either way, we pay. I saw a report on TV, I remember when I went to Cugir with the boys, to a terrace. Well, that's where they make the weapons, at the factory in Cugir, near Alba Iulia. And the favorite is SIG Sauer, which would produce locally. The contract is over 800 million euros. 800 million! With that money, I'd buy myself a new BMW, not one from 2008 with a sport exhaust. But wait, there's more: the award procedure is coordinated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, not MApN. So, I don't even know who's kicking the ball. The program has been delayed, it's in the clarification phase. Clarifications, yeah, like at STB. And guess what? Romania received the second largest amount from SAFE, 16.7 billion euros, after Poland. And with low interest, over 45 years, with a 10-year grace period. Nice, right? But we still pay in the end. And me, waiting to buy some cigarettes, because they've gone up again. Never mind, I'll go explain to Mioara why we can't keep up with the price hikes. It's like the joke: the state pays, meaning us.
