"Corruption and waste are twins"

Corruption and waste are twins, two accomplices in the same boat. Corruption undermines policies and manipulates power - National Assembly member Le Nhu Tien.

Speech of Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Children of the National Assembly Le Nhu Tien at the socio-economic discussion session at the hall this morning:

Wasteful corruption are twins, two accomplices in the same boat. Corruption is the magic of turning public property into private property, turning public land into private land, public money into private money, public houses into private houses, causing losses and waste of hundreds of trillions of dong of the state budget.

National corruption causes policy reversals, power manipulation, alienation of people, loss of trust, depletion of social vitality. Dozens of corporations, corporations, and hundreds of state-owned enterprises lost due to corruption, poor governance, or suffered a stroke or clinical death. The dissolution of the company led to tens of thousands of laborers, who lost their jobs in the company, and lost their land in their hometown. Going from the mountains to the river, maybe falling into the trap of becoming a victim of social evils and becoming a criminal.

Excluding other corporations and corporations, Vinashin alone has lost 107 trillion dong, over 40 trillion in foreign debt, and over 60 trillion in domestic debt. While investing in a classroom under the solidification program is only 500 million. Investment rate for a cultural house is 1 billion VND. If there is no such loss, 214 thousand more classrooms will be built, 107 thousand cultural houses and 53 thousand commune dispensaries. While the whole country has 11,000 communes and wards, each commune and ward has 20 more classrooms, 10 cultural houses and 5 dispensaries and we do not have to delay the salary increase because we cannot arrange resources.

According to the Government Inspectorate's report, recently, over 62,000 cases have been inspected and 464 cases have been transferred to the investigating agency, accounting for 0.6% of the total number of inspections.

Deputies of the National Assembly were very interested in questioning whether there is a tendency to administrativeize corruption-related cases or change the lines of records to divert inspection results.

Dear National Assembly, if thrift is a national policy, waste is a national problem. We often strongly condemn corrupt acts, but losses due to waste amount to a lot, so we hold back and take it lightly. Almost no one has ever been brought to trial for wasteful behavior.

Corruption is seen as a crime while waste is seen as a defect. Inefficient investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars in industrial parks, airports, and export processing zones will only be reminded or learned from experience.

Waste is everywhere. Waste in budget use, land management, asset procurement, land use, resource procurement. That is tangible waste.

Then there is an invisible waste in the exploitation of human resources, a waste of brainpower. Like hundreds of thousands of doctoral theses and scientific research projects at the national and state level, they are bound in monumental hardcovers and neatly arranged as decorations in research institutes. Less than a third of the results are put into practice.

Then there is waste in planning due to lack of foresight, lack of forecasting, not grasping market demand. How much cement and steel are lying idle in the warehouses waiting for circulation. Then the productive land was fallow for many years. Hundreds of trillions of billions that should have been born from the earth were wasted and buried in the ground.

Dear National Assembly, exactly 60 years ago, President Ho Chi Minh gave an important speech to senior cadres on thrift practices and combating wasteful embezzlement.

He said wasteful embezzlement is the enemy of the people and the Government. It doesn't carry a sword or a gun, it's right in our organization. Therefore, fighting wasteful embezzlement is as necessary as fighting the enemy.

60 years have passed, but Ho Chi Minh's anti-corruption and wasteful lessons are still fresh, current, and have practical value. Corruption, waste, loss in items such as diplomatic expenses, bribes, lubrication, ground-breaking, grand opening. Hundreds of strawberries poured into the beginning of the cost, so the price of our products is much higher than the value. Our investment ICOR coefficient is twice as high as that of other countries in the region, meaning the more we invest, the more we lose and waste.

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