Some disputants -- instead of discussing "who is poor in Poland" -- were trying to picture Poland as generally a poor country. Some others were trying to say the majority of the Poles were poor people.
To support such views, some
realistic economical indicators are needed. Otherwise we are talking about some subjective matters: You, about the landscape guy who drives a $60K car and I about my neighbour the baker who has now ordered covering his whole lot with roll-grass.
Now, speaking of objective indicators and answering this view...
but please understand this is borrowed money a lot coming from the EU.
One of such objective indicators could be national gross debt as percentage of Gross Domestic Product. The 2011 forecast for US is 100%, meaning the US live totally on debt. The same forecast for Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary is 29%. Portugal is 97%, Greece is 130%, interestingly Italy is 130% and to give you a good insight, Netherlands and Austria are little above 80%.
Meaning, your (ItsAllAboutMe, wielki pan) "wealth" is a soap bubble, and the indicator also tells us Poland does not live on credit. The nature of a soap bubble is that the cards can be checked easily. This is why the last crisis hardly hit Poland but it hit some of the countries mentioned above.
Now, indicators reading how much people spend on this or that become less important in the light of the fact countries live on credit. Yes, we had one Edward Gierek who made Commie Poland live on credit. Later it meant really hard time for Poland, such as food rationing (Ironside, how old were you at that time?)
Now, wealth distribution. Can anyone present good figures or charts?