Main sins of the Nadwiślan liberals

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The alleged Morawiecki's 3rd government has 1 large advantage – no uncertainty it will not receive a vote of confidence. We'll only gotta deal with him for a week. It's hard to underestimate. Already appearing in the media Composition The Tusk government is not much better and has a giant flaw – it will undoubtedly receive a vote of confidence. It will should be abolished at least until the presidential election, or possibly even the full term.

Thus, a conservative-liberal replay before autumn 2015 is coming, with a hint of progressiveism. 8 years of dynamic social change, the emancipation of many groups, discussions on sources of inequality of chance and lively debates on the various dimensions of force have resulted in 1 left-wing minister and possibly 2 left-wing ministers. You can get dizzy from this progress.

In 8 years, it was possible to forget the specifics of the Nadwiśla liberals, so I prepared a list of their major sins. Each received the face of 1 of the likely ministers.

Eliteism (Barthłomiej Sienkiewicz)

Sienkiewicz fits into the Ministry of Culture like an American SUV to the bus stop, but in Poland passenger vehicles regularly enter the bus stops, so why not. A descendant of the celebrated author will become a minister to make order on TVP. But culture is more than TVP. Not to mention that present there is no culture on TVP Info.

The future Minister of Culture is an insufferable eliteist, arbitraryally establishing principles of good taste and advanced quality. He presented it beautifully during talks with Jarosław Kuish from Liberal Culture. erstwhile Kuisz pointed out that the tightening of the language of the public debate could be a manifestation of its democratisation, Sienkiewicz replied as follows:

“If we give the word democratization absolutely affirmative meaning, and we live in a planet that alternatively drives us to do so, I want to remind Tukidides and Korkyra, where in the name of this democratization people who sought care in the temples were slaughtered. [...] Where language was no longer a problem, but in the name of democratisation collective murders could be carried out. [...] Well, the word democratization does not mean something is better for me," Sienkiewicz replied.

Sienkiewicz, in order to discredit democratisation, went deep – up to 1 of the episodes of the Peloponnese War, or the times of ancient Greece. I find it awkward to reprove specified a prominent person, but from what I remember from school, democracy itself was in those days somewhat different, the strategy was based on slavery, and the majority in the vote could decide the destiny of the individual. So freely operating history, you can connect precisely any mass execution to democratization. Not from now on, however, do we know that eliteists can make far-reaching compromises with facts, just to convince the small ones to politely look at the right patterns.

Sienkiewicz besides presented his own class division in an interview with Kuisz.

“We live in a planet that hates people who can know more or have the power to do something. The competence right now is an insult. [...] [Olga Tokarczuk] named things by name. Yes, society is made up of stupid, wiser and wiser" – said Sienkiewicz rather impudently, most likely convinced that he belongs to 1 of the last 2 groups.

Unfortunately, the future minister of culture did not specify whether the wisers were smarter than the wisers or the another way around. He besides did not explain how he separated the fools from the others. Is this about the celebrated IQ research? How about an arbitrary decision by the minister of culture? To divide people into stupid and wise is rather risky due to the fact that you can be counted among the first ones.

Uncritical Euro-enthusiasm (Adam Trap)

The Head of Modern will become Minister for European Affairs, although he should alternatively become Minister for the Love of the European Union. seemingly he stopped at the phase of falling in love, erstwhile we see only the best features of the another side of the affair. Meanwhile, the mature love, from what I read, is not only to appreciate the qualities of a partner or lover, but besides to be honest and delicate to his or her flaws – of course it works the another way around.

The trap is known for its uncritical support for Poland's adoption of the single currency. His arguments are highly superficial and come down to one sentence“This is simply good for our economy”. In his conversation with Onet, he developed it a little.

"For the sake of Poland, the first thing we should do is prepare to enter the euro area, due to the fact that it is just good for citizens. Low inflation, lower credit instalments, currency stability, for all of us it is very good" – stated The likely minister.

So the trap missed a fewer insignificant issues. For example, the fact that many countries of our region utilizing the euro – especially the Baltic States – had or have higher inflation than Poland. precisely due to the fact that their credit costs were as low as in France or Spain. It could besides mention a possible decline in request for our exports and, above all, mention to the main argument against the introduction of the euro, which is to base our competitiveness on weak gold, which brings in taboos of abroad investors, lured by low costs and with advanced quality work.

By the way, it is truly amazing that liberal supporters of the euro usage almost exclusively economical arguments, although the economical benefits are the most questionable. But there are quite a few customs and beautiful convincing political arguments. Apparently, liberals are so fixated on the financial benefits that they usage money-related arguments even erstwhile they don't fit the puzzle. possibly they just don't know the others.

Outsourcing (Borys Budka)

In the dark times of the Po-PSL rule, outsourcing did an extraordinary career. It was even utilized by public institutions, specified as courts, marshal offices or universities, in order to be able to circumvent specified non-life rules as those concerning minimum wage. This government was known for its propensity to wash hands and get free of certain competences, along with their responsibility.

These habits are inactive surviving in Platform politicians, which was beautifully portrayed by the likely fresh state asset minister Boris Budka. During the pandemic, he presented specified a prescription to keep the stableness of the state budget:

"There will surely be cuts in the state administration, in which expenditure has been greatly blown in fresh years. It is besides a transfer of part of public services to non-governmental organisations and the private sector, thus limiting administration" – stated Budka in an interview with the “Journal of Law Newspapers” in 2020.

Public services – education or wellness – should, according to Budka, be carried out by the 3rd sector, i.e. on much worse employment conditions than the market. Thanks to this, we will reduce costs – with them we will reduce the quality of services, but for specified a sacrifice Budk is ready, after all, he does not usage them.

How will Budka be able to implement his policy in the MAP? We already know something about that. In summertime proposed Outsourcing energy distribution from the energy sector. Officially due to the fact that energy companies deny prosumers access to infrastructure, which is, of course, a problem, but it can be done in another ways – government or appropriate ownership supervision by the MAP.

So it's most likely about getting free of the problem. Let us remind that it was in the times of PO-PSL that the PKP Energetyka was privatized, i.e. the energy distributor for the railway previously outsourced from PKP.

Cheap country (Isabela Leschina)

“I don’t feel like a wellness expert” – She said In 2014, then Deputy Finance Minister Izabela Leszczyna, who is likely to become Minister of wellness in the Tusk government. In the same interview, she summarized the thought of a low-cost state that guided the activities of the PO-PSL government.

"We want wellness spending to be as effective as possible, that is, this relation between effects and expenditures is the best possible one," she said.

Of course, Leschina could have trained in wellness care for 9 years. Besides, she is not a financial expert. On the another hand, she repeatedly and very carefully challenged the propaganda of the Law and Justice on raising wellness spending in relation to GDP. erstwhile Minister Niedzielski praised on Twitter that Poland reached 6% of GDP, Leschina brought him to earth:

"PLN155.6 billion for wellness in 2023 is 4.81% of GDP. delight check in the budget bill: GDP next year is PLN 3 trillion 317 billion 700 million. How did you calculate these 6 percent?" – She wrote. That's what she pointed out erstwhile she spoke in the parliament.

Unfortunately, he doesn't truly know where money comes from at NFZ. On the 1 hand, it rightly accounts for the announced increase in wellness spending, on the another hand it was 1 of the loudest opponents of the evidence of raising gross from the wellness contribution included in the Polish Order. "The Minister of Finance, presenting taxation changes, spoke of historical cuts. It is only a pity that he did not add that increases in wellness contributions are besides historic" – said in 2021.

Ms Leszczyna besides received the honour of presenting the promise to reduce contributions to entrepreneurs during the KO Programme Convention. ‘Urlop for an entrepreneur. This is 1 period a year without social safety contributions, but with half the minimum wage. Finally, what everyone is waiting for – a flat-rate wellness contribution" - announced with euphoria came Minister of Health.

Restoration of the flat-rate wellness contribution will cost NFZ at least PLN 7 billion. So we will get a somewhat adjusted version of the earlier version of "Tan State 2.0". This time, his designers will effort to combine spending increases with taxation cuts. I think it's a recipe for something very unsuccessful.

Contempt towards opponents (Slawomir Nitras)

The Civic Coalition may be associated with any as sympathetic and modern liberals, but in fact they are people who are no little prone to aggressive names, demeaning others, and utilizing the argument of force than the Law and Justice.

The most excited with negative energy is undoubtedly Sławomir Nitras, who began his political career in the 1990s in the Union of Real Politics Janusz Korwin-Mikke. Getting individual into a bad organization 3 decades ago is fundamentally weak. The problem is that Nitras, to this day, shows that Korwin has made a lasting mark on him, with which MP KO and possibly the fresh Minister of athletics feel excellent. As a thin and alternatively handsome man, he is happy to point out their appearance to others. In 2022, Zet said on Radio:

"Notice, I'm sorry, due to the fact that possibly it's not pretty, due to the fact that their stripes are not closing, they're all so spoiled. Physically and financially. You can't do that, people. [...] See what Brudziński looks like. I remember him from 7 years ago: a normal, slim, cool guy, he could even dress up.”

Everyone can slip distant from time to time, especially if they are warmed up by an intense political struggle. The problem is that Nitras did not halt this argument even after the red reaction. Rymanowski.

“The fact that individual has changed as physically as they change is proof that their reality has simply gone away. See how Blackie has changed. After all, he is twice as large as he was in that chair," Nitras argued.

Apart from specified "minorities" as empathy towards overweight people who have listened to this broadcast, the future minister of athletics should have any cognition of the functioning of the human body. In the 21st century, obesity among high-ranking people does not come from turning into privileges, although they do, but from stress, irregular work day or deficiency of time to take care of themselves.

During advanced public positions, quite a few people grew fat erstwhile they lost their weight as shortly as they ceased to prosecute politics. The most emblematic example is Adam Hofman, who, as a PiS spokesperson in stormy times after the Smolensk disaster, rapidly gained weight. erstwhile he was thrown out of politics and took care of carefree lobbying, he rapidly slimmed, began to dress well, to present fashionable hairstyles and a beautiful smile. He's not a better man than that. I don't think Nitras is gonna happen anymore either.

Nineteenth-century knowing of sources of poorness and success (Dariusz Klimczak)

Although the 3rd Way promised to offer the Polish voters a fresh look at the state and social relations, it yet presented a clarified version of Nadwiślan's liberalism, extended by ecology. 1 component of this ideology is the nineteenth century concept of success, which is to be taken exclusively from hard work and alleged talent, whatever it is. It seemed that this discussion was behind us, since even the Law and Justice already about adopted the findings of modern sociology and economics. Unfortunately, the views of 2 centuries ago have only wintered and awakened to life. In the form of, among another things, the future Minister of Infrastructure – Dariusz Klimcz from PSL.

“We place ourselves on people who are industrious, resourceful, operational, not those who look at the grace of the state. We meet many people on the streets who think that sometimes this "social" is besides high. We so call for the valorisation of 500+ to concern only those working. People who take extra hours at night or weekends like that... [...] You gotta do as much as possible to make working in Poland pay. We have low unemployment, people are missing from work and labour costs are besides high" - said Klimczak in a fresh interview with “Magazine Contact”.

As you can see, under the regulation of the fresh coalition, there is no hope of pro-social housing programs. Minister Klimczak will alternatively be betting on industrious developers or early bankers. As PSL likes to specify itself as a organization representing the interests of local governments, Klimczak may set up any award for municipalities that privatize the most municipal housing.

Radical entrepreneurship (Andrzej Domański)

The future finance minister has so far become celebrated for having installed in the public debate an absurd explanation that under the regulation of the Law and Justice, the state declared war on entrepreneurs. This explanation was even included in the coalition agreement.

"First, the state declared war on Polish entrepreneurs and this must be stopped. It sounds like a slogan, but it's confirmed in reality. [...] The spirit of entrepreneurship in Poland is simply stifled and destroyed," said Domański in an October interview with the “Journal of Legal Newspapers”.

The explanation of the war waged by entrepreneurs serves only to give them further privileges that were among them. election threats KO and TD. We are talking, for example, about restoring a flat-rate wellness contribution, reducing the lump sum rate for IT professionals or what is called a leave of absence for entrepreneurs, i.e. the monthly contributions erstwhile a year.

At this point, I would besides like to draw attention to the interesting interview, which Domanski granted in 2016 as a associate of the board of the Eques Investment TFI Fund. erstwhile asked about how to encourage Poles to invest in the capital market, the future finance minister replied: "It is essential to remind people all the time that retirement funds will should be put aside on their own". It remains to be hoped that since then Domanski has somewhat revised his views on the social safety system, due to the fact that if not, it is indeed essential to postpone.

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