News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [516]


a quote from Bratwurst Boy from 2008





oh, Bratwurst Boy had a colleague

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [412]


I don't know to be honest - I read though that tens of thousands of Jews immigrated to Germany from Eastern Europe, including Poland, following WW1 - there was influx of Eastern European Jews into Germany in the late 19th century (think industrialization of Germany) as well

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [545]

no confront it with these:

Donald Tusk, February 16th, 2014: "When I hear the proposal that every child after the first in a family should receive 500 PLN per month.. accroding to my best knowledge there is no way to finance the project"

Donald Tusk, February 16th, 2014: "If someone knows where those billions are burried.. and they can be immediately distributed among the populace, then I will be the happiest prime minister in the world to author or co-author of such a project"

Jacek Vincent Rostowski, Polish finance minister: October 25th, 2015: "There is no money for the promises that PiS made, and there won't be any until the end of this parliamentary term" (famous "Pinięndzy nie ma i nie będzie")

Ewa Kopacz, somewhere in 2015 or 2016: "That money won't be there neither in 2017 nor in 2018" (about financing 500+) (Ewa Kopacz was handpicked by Tusk to lead the government after he left for Brussels)

Bronisław Komorowski, somewhere in 2016: "This is the stupidest way of spending public money" (about 500+ programme) (President of Poland 2011-2015, PO politician)

Donald Tusk: July 2021: "We managed to get Poland through the crisis in such a manner, that it was possible to start big social programmes, too..We would start such projects at roughly the same time. Ewa Kopacz had a project ready similar to 500+, but she was in this last year of cleaning up after the global crisis"

Ewa Kopacz, July 2021: "PiS politicans simply lie. They say that it was very difficult at first, because we left public finances in ruin with an EU excessive deficit procedure in place , but they still gave people 500+. We left public finances in a good shape. That's why you could give out money left and right."

in the edning days of 2023 the new Polish government illegally changed the directors of the Polish public broadceters and Polish public news agency - one of the first thing they did was destroying the archives of the public news channel TVP Info (including the archive articles and videos on the website of the channel)

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [545]


ok, again

- Polish budget income in 2015 (the last year of the first PO regime) - 290 billion PLN

- Polish budget income in 2018 (three years into PiS rule - after implementing anti-VAT-fraud measures that PO delayed and delayed and.. and after introducing consistent checks of the fuel imported into the country which where non-existen under PO regime) - 380 billion PLN

-inflation between 2015 and 2018= under 4 per cent

-practically no tax hikes between 2018 and 2015 and yet almost 25 per cent rise in the state income (one fourth for those who don't work in percentages)

-the state income rise between 2015 and 2018 fully covered all the social programmes PiS introduced (500+ programme which awarded parents 500 PLN per month for each child, for example)

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [412]


there were no non-German speaking shtettl inhabitants - yidish is practically a form of German

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [342]


Torq - I was sleepy yesterday (well today at 1 am) and I lost my edti:

maybe there were some swindles here and there during PiS rule - however compared to the amount of VAT fraud, mafias importing fuel illegally and selling them without paying taxes, the amount of money extorted from the state through fake drug prescriptions durign the time of PO-PSL before 2015 they were simply peanuts - just compare the income of the Polish states (which comes mainly from taxes) in 2015 and in 2023 (respectively 290 and 600 billion PLN) - after taking inflation out of the equation (cumulative inflation between 2015 and 2024 was about 50 per cent) the income of the Polish state was 50 per cent higher than in 2015 - after only 8 years - there is an even more striking comparison to marvel at: in 2018 the income of the Polish state was 380 billion PLN while the inflation rate between 2018 and 2015 was lest than 4 per cent - in just 3 years it grew more than 25 per cent - and practically no tax hikes happened in the process - that's the testament to the robbery of the state during PO+PSL rule

also some of the scandals you attribute to PiS were just mishandling, blunders, maybe even some incompetence (especially in international negotiations)

you just need to see things in perspective (and to give a point to those figures I'll use a quote from our fabulous minister of finances, Jacek Rostowski: "Piniendzy, nie ma i nie będzie") - watch this video to refresh your memory and maybe ponder a bit about these things: youtu.be/eiBhDBkrUKg

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [342]


oh, thieves - yeah, you should denounce them - prosecutors will be happy -

PiS was trying to build a big national energy company able to invest in new fields (like wind farms off the Baltic coast which are scrapped now from what I can gather) - maybe we should have simply stick to coal and **** the EU

Getback: are you sure vindication companies are under the supervision of Bank Supervisory Commission (KNF)? I'm not (they have to only if they want to deal in very specific areas of vindication)

life-support machines? was there a surplus of these on the market in the early COVID days? wasn't the government desperate to DO SOMETHING or were they supposed to step up to the cameras and say: "Sorry folks, there are no respirators on the market, your grandparents will have to die"

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]


you are completely wrong - English has a very gentle learning curve compared to Polish (thanks to quite straightforward grammar: no declination to speak of of nouns and adjectives,no grammatical genders, maximum of 4 different forms of verbs with a whole lot of them being regular ie following a simple pattern) - the biggest problem with English is getting the hang of the spoken language (with understanding the spoken language being the bigger obstacle than speaking it well enough to be understood) - I wouldn't count English ortography as a problem because, from my experience, you mostly learn new English words in written form (well at school it is both written and spoken at the same time actually) - well, OK, there is also the vast and nuanced vocabulary which you need to master the language (I will probably never master English tbh, which only proves that it is not that difficult to attain intermediate level if you have average memory)

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [342]


please, divulge - I mean give some examples to us poor PiS brainwashed sheeple

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [545]

@Paulina

by the way: as far as I can remember "Poland in ruin" was not the main motto of PiS parliamentary campaign in 2015 - also the leaked "tapes" of 2014 had the home secretary/minister of internal affairs say: "Polish state is only in theory". This and the VAT fraud scale before PiS came to power justified "Poland in ruin" to some extent in my opinion.

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1158]


but they are not elected per se - just a remark

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [545]

it is pretty easy to verify if "hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Africa and the Middle East were brought to the country" because it would be readily visible around you

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [545]


can I call those people who believed that "PiS brought in hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Africa and the Middle East" and voted for "the democratic camp" stupid , too - or is it some breech of DEMOCRACY

how about PiS claiming that tens of billions of PLN were being drained from the Polish state budget by VAT fraudsters during that election campaing - was it a lie, too?

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]


so you claim they speak literary Polish when no tourists are around? if so please somehow back up this claim

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [545]


so how come people believed in that lie if it wasn't true at all

as for Tusk's grandpa - Jacek Kurski who brought up the accusation was relegated from the PiS presidential campaing office and Lech Kaczyński publicly apologized to Tusk about the accusation in a television debate (as per wikipedia) - this source claims Kurski was expelled from the party in fact, as a result: wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,114873,2969023.html

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


I have already said it was South Vietnam who lost the war - but you are right to an extent there were millions of Vietnamese from the North and those in Viet Kong who also lost the war mainly because they lost their lives

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [545]


what lies - you care to divulge?

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [545]

@pawian


firstly it was businesses who applied for work permits for foreigners not the government - secondly only a fraction of those who received work permits actually received Polish visas - thirdly foreign workers are workers: they pay taxes and don't cost the state any money - and on the fourth count: if you followed the proceedings of the "Visa scandal commision" in the Sejm you would know that there is now talk only about a couple of hundreds fraudulent visa cases there


how do you actually know?

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [545]

@pawian

yes indeed - I didn't know about the point b) - so let's look at the numbers - less than 4 thousand people in 2022 who claimed asylum in Poland or entered the EU in Poland and then sought to claim an asylum or were caught as illegals in Germany - it's not a staggering number if you ask me if you take into consideration that it was the middle of the Belarus border crisis - and also they could have crossed the EU border in Lithuania and were maliciously sent back to Poland by the Germans (there were numerous instnaces back then when Polish police and border guards caught people travelling from Lithuania to Germany through Poland being transported by human traffickers)

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [545]


there was no actual referendum back then (2015) - PiS won on the promise they would no accept "migrant quotas" that Western European countries wanted to share with us - and they kept their word

wait a sec though - there was an actual referendum on this last year along the last elections - however the referendum was mostly boycotted by the followers of the then opposition (now forming a government) because they were told to do so by the oppositon figures (as our current prime minister, Mr Tusk said "I cancel this referendum")

because of the boycott the referendum had not enough people voting to be binding (less then 50 per cent of those eligible voted but the vast majority of those who did voted against the idea of "migrant quotas")

(the story is not quite as straightforward though, because there were actually four questions in the referendum and only one of those was on the topic of immigration - what remains though that people depraved themselves of the right to vote on important issues because of one deranged man (Tusk) who now poses as the one true defender of Polish borders against immigration)

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [545]


only those who first claimed asylum in Poland afaik - if you have proof to the contrary feel free to post it here

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [545]


the last referendum on migrants was held during the elections in 2015 when PiS won mainly thanks to strongly opposing the "let's share the migrants around in Europe we have too much of them in Germany" idea and then followed by doing whatever they could to stop the idea's realisation

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [545]


I see - well, tell Tusk to revoke it then - he's the self-proclaimed protector of the Polish borders nowadays, isn't he?

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [545]


which deal and when - sources please

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


the US didn't lose the war - Americans just reached a conclusion that they are not ready to sacrifice any more American lives to fight the war in defence of South Vietnam - it was South Vietnam that lost the war, that's for sure

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


that doesn't change the fact that if it weren't for American supplies your country would most probably have starved during the war


you can however bomb them into the middle ages - that helps your war effort quite a great deal if you ask me

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [545]


yeah, Tusk will do better: he will connect the fence to electric power (the idea he himself ridiculed when the wall was being designed and built)

News / Polish PM Tusk- dictator or not? What Poles think? [421]


the number of your posts is shown in your every post - you only need to check your last one - so don't feel that flattered, pawian

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


most probably because the troops who defended it had enough food :P

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]


Górale speak their dialect every day just like many Silesians do - it's not just for the show