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Joined: 26 May 2008 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 17 Feb 2013
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Posts: Total: 453 / In This Archive: 154 		From: Chicago
Speaks Polish?: not quite yet...
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Babinich   
17 Feb 2013
Life / Are Polish ppl capable of revolting? [41]

I agree with you pawian,you should have to be a resident to partake in the political process imo.

Resident or citizen?
Babinich   
27 Sep 2012
USA, Canada / If America is so bad, why move here? [254]

So their are kids that are younger then me who have a BA and didn't pay anything for it!

Nothing is free.
Babinich   
25 Dec 2011
USA, Canada / If America is so bad, why move here? [254]

Maybe the US can learn something from Germany

i agree that the Germans have a great labor conflict resolution system in place.

I too agree that the German educational systems is light years ahead of what the US has to offer. (Can you imaging the American university system willing to share some of the pie?)

~~~

But...

Do German banks separate the commercial side from the investment side?

In 2008/2009 when the German economy weakened was it the cash reserve of companies or government subsidies that kept companies' heads above water?

Has the weakened Euro aided or detracted from the German export industry?

How levered are EU central banks?

German sovereign debt is approximately eighty-one percent of GDP. The Germans can't recap their banks because they don't have the money to do so. When will German backs recap? When they recap will the sovereign debt to GDP ratio get better or worse?
Babinich   
16 Aug 2011
News / Nigel Farage voice of reason for Poland and EU? [79]

As I said - they were elected. We, as Europeans, voted for people who then voted for them. I hope that in time, we'll see a directly-elected European President to represent the EU - but this is a first step.

For what it's worth - Van Rompuy at least seems to be doing a pretty decent job of coordinating a common European position. That's good, right?

Question: In all of this EU mess, is nationalism on the rise or the decent?
Babinich   
14 Jun 2011
News / Over 2 million Poles drowning in debt [19]

I think you'll find its quite a bit more than that if you delve into the areas which the governments try to hide from the public. It is absolute madness though - the world owing money to itself. I mean how is that even possible?

Why? Because no matter how hard the elites try to create one world government the world is, and will always be, comprised of multiple sovereigns.
Babinich   
24 May 2011
News / Visegrad Battle Group under the command of Poland [261]

BB,

It seems as if your leaving out those Soviet divisions formed east of the Urals.

You're also leaving out the Americans. The Americans had a role in WWI & WWII.
Babinich   
24 May 2011
History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]

And we give out alot of money to Poland too....have to invest in our colonies! And we have that money...after all you will be well looked after subjects of Berlin!

How's the forfeiture of money in order to prop up a pipe dream looking to the German people?

When will your leaders get smart and go back to sovereignty?
Babinich   
24 May 2011
News / Visegrad Battle Group under the command of Poland [261]

Maybe, but it should avoid the same downfalls as Prussia/Germany experienced. To much agressive power and Europe will show you to that you will lose in the end.

Are you counting the Soviets as Europeans?
Babinich   
24 May 2011
History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]

the supposed sale to the USSR at Yalta

The "sale" of Poland to the USSR occurred just before Tehran. A deal brokered by American and Soviet apparatchiks.

Churchill knew nothing about it.
Babinich   
16 May 2011
News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]

German gov today decided to put billions into the electro car research/development/industry...watch this space in the next decade!

Green technology augments, but will never provide, the bulk of energy needed for a modern civilization.

What will happen to nuclear power in Germany?
Babinich   
10 May 2011
History / Why did Russia attack Poland in WW2? [178]

In fact as recently discovered documents show Zhukov proposed to Stalin to hit Germany in April 1941 in a surprise attack and Stalin was not unmoved however he dismissed the plan since the soviet preparations had still not be completed.

And how would that field trip have worked out for the Soviets?
Babinich   
2 May 2011
History / Why did communism in Poland fail? [180]

Every one earns the same amount.

So the construction worker building skyscrapers makes as much as person conducting museum tours?
Babinich   
27 Apr 2011
History / Poland Lithuania - current relations [124]

I never really understood where all this anxiety comes from; given the fact that hardly any Pole (or German) can remember the war as an eye witness.

Why write history if the goal is to live only in the present?
Babinich   
18 Apr 2011
History / Why did communism in Poland fail? [180]

The better question would be why did Communism fail.

Why? Because it failed to provide its citizens the quality and quantity of consumption that had become the standard of modernity over the last third of the twentieth century.
Babinich   
17 Apr 2011
News / US Military: The Army of Poland is crap. [124]

I am Polish. I am patriot. I was a solider. And sadly, I think that the Polish army IS a crap.

I can elaborate, but really - is that necessary?

Please do elaborate for those of us who didn't serve.
Babinich   
1 Apr 2011
Feedback / A Personal Request to all PF members [119]

Please contribute with respect and kindness there, because this is the least a friend can do for a friend?

Ahh ... a fair chance... lol. How can you not understand what I wrote when everyone else seem to have understood? Why are you so slow man?

emphasis mine...

As Scooby Doo would say: Ruh-roh! :')
Babinich   
21 Mar 2011
News / "Shale Gas Revolution" will make Poland a Leading Country in Europe! [202]

But youre a corporate boy with a profit agenda.

You'd rather a statist who feeds on ignorance of their citizenry?

Fracking will only be made sound and safe by innovation from the private, not public sector.

Overall capitalism frees people from poverty; statism ties people to dependency.
Babinich   
9 Feb 2011
History / Polish martyrology during WW2 - today`s monuments [54]

Isn`t it unfair that today Polish losses are so unknown and forgotten?

Those are beautiful images Pawian.

I am not sure I'd use the word unfair. The word I'd use is unfortunate.
Babinich   
6 Feb 2011
News / Poland building an empire (instead of a nation)? [67]

Bratwurst Boy

Germany and Poland get along just fine. They rely on each other; one for exports the other for parts.

There is nothing wrong with economic expansion and free markets. Why such consternation?

As nations become more energy independent (nat gas) you'll see greater economic growth.
Babinich   
5 Feb 2011
News / Poland building an empire (instead of a nation)? [67]

Poland losing its focus on building a nation. Now it wants a military alliance with Ukraine and Lithuania. They can't leave the past.

Why not? As Germany and Russia draw closer it's nice to have some friends.
Babinich   
31 Jan 2011
News / Poland goes bankrupt? [110]

Work on becoming energy self sufficient.

The Chinese are light years ahead of the best and the brightest currently taking up space in Washington who tout wind/solar power and high speed rail as the best examples of American scientific achievement.

energyfromthorium.com/2011/01/30/china-initiates-tmsr/

Where's the money coming from to fund tax cuts? Bush's tactic of cutting taxes didn't work so well, did it?

Not when couple with higher spending.