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Posted: Tue 8:56, 13 Aug 2013 Post subject: Asked 'Are You Better Off Today-spun2 |
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Asked 'Are You best Off Today
This is the question Taxation put to the electorate when he ran for president of the us in 1980.
Eight years after what politicians here refer to as the "Polish revolution,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," and 4 years following the post-Communist Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) found power, Poles are considering a similar question: "Are we best now?"
In legislative elections last Sunday, the right-wing Solidarity Election Alliance decisively outpolled the ruling SLD and appears prone to lead the next government. Both Solidarity and also the SLD,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which includes former Communists, have supported the development of private enterprise.
Tadeusz Smyka, a shoemaker who sells his wares in a flea market a little way from Warsaw's main stop, in the beginning declines to assess the political scene and the changes since 1989. He would only get angry,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he admits that.
However he changes his mind and runs after his visitor, making up ground far from his booth,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to avail himself from the chance to sound off.
"We're much worse off than before 1989. I've my own workshop in the center of Warsaw,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but I need to come out in the cold to sell shoes in a flea market on weekends to create payments," Mr. Smyka, an ardent SLD supporter,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], complains.
"It's all [Lech] Walesa's fault," he adds, referring to the former president. "Everywhere Walesa went, he asked individuals to arrived at Poland to earn money." As a result, producers from Brazil, Italy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and Spain dumped cheap shoes to the Polish market,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], forcing him to chop his own prices dramatically. That, consequently,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], meant laying off all but one of the 14 employees Smyka had before 1989.
With less help in the store, it's harder for him to retool quickly to reply to alterations in styles, which further disadvantages him.
"The Communists weren't as good at suppressing the independent Polish craftsmen as Walesa was,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Smyka says. "For 45 years the craftsmen and farmers of Poland lived well, however the last five years happen to be enough to kill them."
His son and daughter now work with American firms in Warsaw. His daughter earns a good salary, 2,500 zlotys per month (about $715) at Hewlett Packard, the pc firm,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that is spending money on her English-language study and other education.
Both his youngsters are more affluent than he is now,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he admits that. But he seems not to make a connection between this development and former President Walesa's encouragement to foreign firms arrive at Poland.
In broad terms, Poland continues to be one of the surprise economic testimonials of Europe's former Eastern bloc. It's the only country whose economy is really larger today compared to 1989.
"The numbers are remarkably good," agrees a Finance Ministry official. "But they do not tell the whole story - they don't describe a realistic look at people's lives."
Jadwiga, for instance, a manager at an automotive-supply warehouse,who declined to be fully named, assesses her situation as she stands before her wares at the flea market.
"Things haven't really changed," she says. "I do what I did before, however i need to work a lot more than before to maintain my standard of living. My salary isn't enough. Life is becoming a lot more expensive."
She supplements her income by selling automobile seat covers and other products at the flea market. It should be a profitable sector: In just the first seven months of 1997, Poland imported 300,000 cars. But Jadwiga says she doesn't notice any upturn in her business.
In the greater affluent neighborhood of Ursynow,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a guy who would like to be called just Andrzej, and who now owns their own printing business after years of your large state-run firm, says frankly,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "Life used to be easier. There was you don't need to work hard. I possibly could go back home at Three or four in the afternoon. Now I must work all day."
But his wife does not work away from home,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he volunteers during a brief interview in front of a supermarket. "We have enough to reside on," he says, while adding it would be be nice to possess some more.
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