A strike would have sufficient achieved these goals. Nevertheless, no working group went on strike for higher wages and sent delegates to negotiate strictly material claims with the government. Once inflation is let loose, several years of efforts to curb it will be necessary. Only an increase in production, i.e. the quantity of goods in market, will make a general wage increase possible. Besides, the priority of the impoverished budget would be to rest a minimum standard of civilization.
Immediate investments are necessary, for instance, in the public services of health and sanitation.
Although we strive to re-Europeanize Romania, we do not want to copy the western capitalist systems with their drawbacks and inequities. Still we positively uphold the idea of private initiative. The economic foundation of totalitarianism is the all-powerful state property. We shall never have political pluralism without economic pluralism. This is a way to stir up the envy of a lazy and dread of work of the former privileged people in the communist enterprises.