The Intrigue Behind Social Security

(HNM) - One of the main focuses of hostile forces against our Party and State is to use the "dark corners" in the implementation of social security policies as a trick to incite, sow bad thoughts, and divide trust. Understanding their plots and tricks, and having a correct perception of the effectiveness of implementing this policy is an issue of public concern.

Article 34 of the 2013 Constitution affirms: “Citizens have the right to social security”. Understanding the purpose and significance of social security, on June 10, 2012, the 11th Party Central Committee issued Resolution No. 15-NQ/TU on a number of social policy issues for the 2012-2020 period (Resolution 15).

Recently, after the Politburo meeting to give opinions on the Project to summarize 10 years of implementing Resolution 15, Vietnamese websites abroad have "pointed their spears" and denied the achievements in ensuring social security in Vietnam. On VOA, a person named Tran Van wrote an article "Only monuments, welcome gates,... are modern, inclusive, and sustainable". The article denied the 10-year results in this field in Vietnam and presented some results of building public cultural works abroad for comparison. The writer believes that social security is just a trick to lull the people to sleep so that Party officials can have free hands and easily rake in the profits.

Also at this time, when the investigation agency of the Ministry of Public Security announced the results of the investigation related to the "rescue flights" of the Covid-19 epidemic and proposed to prosecute 54 defendants for "abusing positions and powers to perform official duties", "bribery", "bribery giving", "bribery brokerage" and "fraud"... the website baotiengdan.com posted many analysis and commentary articles with bad arguments. Despite the disjointed arguments and lack of scientific evidence, this website still asserted that when "performing official duties", officials at all levels of all sectors calmly "beheaded and skinned" the subjects they... "served".

In particular, when the authorities handle cases of encroachment on sidewalks for business and trading, they unanimously accuse Vietnam of blocking people's livelihoods. Or after the shortage of medical biological products and the arrest of a number of health officials, they quickly announced that Vietnam has failed in providing health care for its people.

If we closely monitor the activities of hostile forces, we will see that they often apply the method of analyzing information and individual events, then making assumptions, making assessments, and concluding that Vietnam is suffering from a “systemic error”. When it comes to the issue of ensuring social security in Vietnam, they also use this trick. This is considered a favorite “dish” of dissidents. What should we do in the face of this trick?

First of all, to thoroughly understand the Party's viewpoint on ensuring social security, we need to clearly understand the concept. According to experts, social security is a system of policies and programs implemented by the State and social forces, aiming to ensure that all citizens have a minimum level of income, have the opportunity to access at a minimum level of basic and essential social services, such as education, health care, housing, clean water, information... especially for subjects such as children, the elderly, the sick, the disadvantaged and the unemployed.

Implementing Resolution 15, the Government has deployed many contents and programs. Of the total 26 targets, 5 targets were exceeded and completed ahead of schedule, including: Housing for people with meritorious services; social assistance; social assistance for the elderly; school attendance rate at the right age; health insurance; expanded immunization. There are 16 targets that have reached the target by 2020, including: Living standards of families of people with meritorious services; allowances for people with meritorious services; general unemployment; urban unemployment; general poverty reduction; poverty reduction in districts and communes with high poverty rates; average income per capita of poor households; emergency social assistance; children attending junior high school at the right age; literate people from 15 years old; trained workers; vaccination for children under 1 year old; tuberculosis prevention; radio and television coverage; communal radio stations in mountainous, remote, border and island areas.

In particular, Vietnam's Human Development Index (HDI) in 2020 improved in the United Nations rankings, from 128/187 in 2011 to 117 in 2020. VietnamPlus newspaper quoted the assessment of Ms. Gulmira Asanbaeva, Acting Representative of the International Labor Organization in Vietnam, affirming that the promulgation and implementation of Resolution 15 marked a major breakthrough, creating a premise for Vietnam to get closer to international standards and best practices in social security.

The above evidence clearly confirms that hostile forces, dissidents and those with ill will towards Vietnam, deliberately turn social security policies into tools to achieve their sabotage plots.

Aware of their plots, every cadre, party member and citizen in society needs to raise awareness, cherish the values of peace, independence and freedom; believe in the Party and State's guidelines, policies and strategies; build up a strong resistance for themselves, not falling into the traps of bad guys and reactionary forces. Party committees, authorities and the media system need to step up propaganda, provide complete and timely information in various forms, so that all citizens know and have more confidence.

V. Lenin once affirmed: “A revolution is only valuable when it knows how to defend itself.” That value of self-defense must be based on the policy of building a democratic rule-of-law state, aiming to ensure the right to life, living standards, and the right to mastery of citizens. This is completely consistent with the goals that our Party is building. It is necessary to build a strong political belief in the goals of the Party and the programs of the State in order to have the right attitude and not fall into the trap of hostile forces.

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