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Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]
Will you ever odczepić się? :):):)
Am I forcing you to participate in this discussion ?
I appreciate the effort you made to write this long post and I can even forgive you the personal attacks from the previous one, however I was asking for facts. Let's take a look at your list.
Points 3-5 are irrevelant, you could as well write about Tusk's successes in playing football.
Point 6. The foreign policy of Tusk is the one of smiles and shake hands, which itself isn't generating any value added for the citizens of Poland. What did we get out of it ? Do we pay now fair price for Russian gas or much more than Germans ? Smiles and shake hands could be good for the first year to prepare the ground for the real deals. Can you point out any of them ?
Point 7. "Under Tusk rule, Poland is making a good use of European funds". In quantitive terms we spend a lot but often just to spend it without much thinking about the quality of these projects, so we have for example some EU funded trainings for jobless people, which are pretty much useless in the reality of the labor market. It's been like that under previous governments, no matter If SLD or PiS were the main political parties in the Parliament. Tusk didn't screw this one up but he hasn't improved It either.
8. In result, Poland abounds with new developments.
9 In result of the above, the preparations to EURO 2010 Championships are in full swing and won`t be delayed.
I tend to listen to experts and they, such as people from ZDG TOR, a respected think-tank focused on transport, are saying this: railways = disaster, roads = at best average. Comparing that with my own observations, I think It's fair opinion. If you don't agree with that, please provide supporting facts.
10. No more compulsory military service The army is professional now.
I used to serve in the army and am quite familar with this issue. The army is not professional. We don't have draft anymore but itself It didn't make the army professional. It is undertrained, ill-equipped and organized. The main difference is that more money is now being spend on salaries, less on training and equipment. Furthermore, no structural changes were made (and there are no even plans for that), so with 100k soldiers we have a command structure like for 250k soldiers. In result the ratio of privates to officers is ~1.6 to 1 when a helthy one would be 5 to 1. Moreover, the process of "professionalization" was done the way that they had stopped the draft long before the large scale recruitment of "professional" soldiers was started. For over a year most of combat units were not able to perform any tasks, they simply had no people. This one actually perfectly shows the philosophy of PO, they scored some points among the youngest voters and It's all that matters. Read what Petelicki, Skrzypczak, Hypki and all independent experts are talking about the situation in the army, they all agree that Klich is the worst person in charge of MOD in the history of the 3rd RP.
Now the most important:
2. In result, Poland has good ratings and enjoys the trust of foreign investors.
Not at all. Facts say something much different. Poland is heavily criticized by EU for huge deficit and lack of reforms. The ratings are under huge pressure. Read this one, you can find tonnes of similar stuff, It's not PiS conspiracy.
1. The steady economic growth throughout the crisis - the (in)famous so called green island:
What the government actually did to point it out as its success ? Please provide the facts. It seems to be a government success as much as nice weather during summer would be. Please provide supporting facts If you don't agree with that.
All in all, I appreciate the effort you made, however most of the points are PR slogans spread by the government, not the facts I was expecting. If I went to my CEO asking for 20% salary increase saying things like: 1. I improved the quality of our products 2. I reduced our operating costs 3... without providing supporting facts like: 1. I revised our quality control policy changing a)... b)... c)... which resulted in 30% decrease of quality related complaints from our clients. 2. I implemented new training procedures for new workers, which let reduce the period of training from 5 to 3 weeks without loses in quality and that let us save x million annually. 3.... etc. he would be rolling on the floor laughing.
