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amiga500   
22 May 2023
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]

Wait for the war to end and inflation to be under 10 percent.

The PiS plan is to introduce them in 2024 when they say, inflation will be under 10 percent. PO plan is to introduce them now after years opposing it. lolzo. If god forbid inflation is still at 15 percent then i am sure PiS will delay the introduction.
amiga500   
21 May 2023
Off-Topic / Hollywood Films [62]

Though I have to say Go West version by Pet Shop Boys surpases the original. Love the english synth-pop sounds of the 90s.. !

youtu.be/LNBjMRvOB5M
amiga500   
20 May 2023
Off-Topic / Hollywood Films [62]

This above song "Go West" is one of the anthems of the entire queer movement.

Great song. Though YMCA is their all time bestest! Put your disco flares on and dance you nazi bit*h!

youtu.be/CS9OO0S5w2k
amiga500   
20 May 2023
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]

I think we would have to start with the basics- what is this programme supposed to accomplish?

All of the above that you mentioned.

1- increase birth rate - will boom shortly with all those millions of ukranian women having arrived.
2- reduce poverty - history making changes
3- income top up for parents - helps middle class parents do more like sending their kids to kindergarten
4- increase consumer spending and thus help small business and economy.

5. After Poland being fu**ed over since the 89, by the introduction of neoliberalism, it's a show of political respect by the government to the demos, that Poland can dream of being a civilised western state with the social spending that this includes.

Means testing: it should be set at a level that only excludes the top 10-20 percent, then the points of benefits stopping people getting pay rises and people kombinowac to receive benefits are moot, as are the stigmatisation issues. It would nullify the political argument that the money is being wasted on the rich.
amiga500   
20 May 2023
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]

That means she could stay with your kid at home and you don't really need a kindergarten.

You really need to stop poking your nose into other people's family life and telling them what to do. You are like the bitter old hag that jon referenced earlier, or the priests wife 200 years that makes sure all morals are strictly followed by the congregation, by prying into and controlling every aspect of their lives. Instead of 'it's a sin against god and you will go to hell' it's 'children in psych wards are commiting suicide because of your behaviour!'
amiga500   
20 May 2023
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]

that I think 500+/800+ should be based on income?

So tell us at what level of income should it be cut off? both for single mothers and two parents. As I said before i'm broadly in favour of means testing, but it's all dependent on the amount, and
amiga500   
20 May 2023
News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]

is the length of the queues, especially at lunchtime.

That's part of the experience :) the culinary establishment is maintaining it's traditional rituals.
amiga500   
20 May 2023
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]

allow to create some spots for suicidal kids in child psychiatric wards. That would be enough for me.

This isn't like adding spots in your diary for your high-end escort business, the psychiatric wards are full, so one would have to build new hospitals, train new doctors and nurses etc, a decades long investment involving far more money than your pointless and punitive solution to 500+ would achieve.

Funny not once in the last few years have you admitted the miraculous decreases in child poverty (thus saving lives!) thanks to 500+. just whine and complain about people taking holidays. lol
amiga500   
20 May 2023
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]

If people are spending those money for stuff like holidays abroad that means they don't need those money.

How much do you think it costs to take a family of 4-5 on a holiday abroad, and how much is 500+ again?

I'd like to know statistics.

You're the one screaming like a banshee that if we get rid of 500+ for middle class families, or if we get rid of 500+ for people who have an audacity to try and live as normal human beings ie have a holiday then suddenly the child psychiatric wards will become a place of disneyland. so how about you back up your insane opinions with some stats?
amiga500   
20 May 2023
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]

always better to give money to people (who will spend it inside the economy anyway - on food, clothes and services)

And that's what 500+ does! It has massively increased consumer spending and thus GDP. Jeez when did you become so dumb? You sounded a lot smarter a few years ago, seems that evangelical church has rotted your brain, as for joining the euro, lolzo.
amiga500   
20 May 2023
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]

how is it possible that there's enough money for well-to-do families with kids?

Define well-to-do families. Majority of people are making <10k zloty a month. I would wager the amount spent on 500+ on rich families that opt in every year to receive a couple of groszy in their estimation is quite small, and certainly not enough to magically fix the problems you list here.
amiga500   
20 May 2023
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]

this is still a democratic country and communist methods don`t work here

Nationalisation with compensation is perfectly legal and within a remit of a sovereign nation state. Besides in the west Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) with monopoly assets end with the asset returning to public hands at the end of the contract. I'm sure Jan Kulczyk (is he even dead?) bribed Kwasniewski with a typical FU to Poland post-communist arrangement, but the government has a lot of cards to play in terms of making the autostradas free, like in Germany,
amiga500   
19 May 2023
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]

countries with a tiny public sector, low tax revenue and wild-west capitalism and can assure you that the developed societies of Europe are easier, better and safer places to live in.

Ding Dong We have a winner! Thanks to PiS we are never going back to the dziki kapitalism of the 90s and 00s.

Private highways owned by post communist oligarch are going to be made free, ie pay them a less money than individual polish citizens, negotiate the amount under threat of nationalisation, that's a pretty radical policy.

I just hope the next goverment is a coalition with partia razem rather than the neo-liberal konfa.
amiga500   
19 May 2023
News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]

one of the main indicators of how well a country is doing economy-wise.

Rubbish, the rampant inflation is a one off due to covid and the russian invasion and is falling worldwide. yes it's higher than germany but that is our economy is booming. GDP growth, GDP per capita, unemployment, social mobility, inequality (gini coeficiant,) housing market, small business penetration, red tape, transparency index etc are equally if not more important.
amiga500   
19 May 2023
News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]

That's how well PiS is handling the economy.

I knew a country bumpkin like yourself would see going to mcdonalds as a special occasion, do you put on a suit and tie as well? Inflation is already falling and will hit single figures in early 2024.

In Illinois - $4.55 and we make 4x what you do.

That's because maccas in Ilinois is for white trash and thugs and in Poland it was seen as a status symbol to eat there in the 90s and that vibe never went away. give me a bar mleczny anytime.
amiga500   
19 May 2023
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]

The 800+ should be based on need, and not for everyone. Financial need as determined by your income.

I agree with you, but where we are where we are, actually if it was means tested, the accusations that PiS was trying to buy votes with it's Poland B electorate would actually be a lot stronger, I think they made it universal and voluntary at the start was to fend off that accusation that it's for the stupid, unemployed alcoholic, wife beating PiS voter, and it's too late to reverse now. I think it would be a smart move.

When my friends making 50K a month get another 1500 for three kids per month and you cant opt out,

I don't know what your rich friends told you, but it's opt-in and you have to apply every year, so now we're back to the ethical and personal responsibility of rich families taking government child support when they don't need it, I have less of a problem with that, that if they're also bi*tching about PiS and handouts whilst taking 500+! that's the height of hypocrisy!
amiga500   
18 May 2023
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]

But there are a lot of wealthy families getting that same money and will get the same boost to 800+, and that is fvcking terrible management of public money.

What's worse is the total lack of personal responsibility by those wealthy families, who in the same breath attack 500+, say it's handouts for wife beating drunks etc, and at the same time take the money that they are saying should be refused to the poor! As an economist on polsat news said if you are accepting 500+ then you should shut your mouth before criticising it! From the start PiS said if you don't need it then you have a choice to not get it!

is only going to get worse no matter which party is running Poland.

You are very wrong, the future has never been brighter for poland, and anyway if the nuclear bombs fall the future will be an even brighter incandescent light. ;)
amiga500   
18 May 2023
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]

This for a healthcare and retirement system that is completely fvcked.

I agree, this is the issue of Poland since 1989, and will take decades to fix. Unless you are advocating for getting rid of ZUS and forcing people onto private health insurance exclusively, then Konfederacja has your vote. Getting rid of 800+ and lowering ZUS by say 10 percent does not seem wise either.

As for running this country though, PiS will bankrupt the country, and they are a financial disaster.

Oxford Economics disagrees.

Poland's large surpluses and growth in services trade stand out, overtaking Czechia and Slovakia (much smaller economies). On top of transport (famous Polish haulage companies) and travel, IT and R&D exports have been booming. Poland is moving up the value chain. 🚀

Perhaps most impressively, Poland's booming economy, which has outperformed all others, recorded the smallest current account deficit in the region last year. And this without any EU Recovery Fund transfers 👀
amiga500   
18 May 2023
News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]

Are you calling Oxford Economics PiS propagandists, look I know for multi generation traitors like you, the fact the Poland is doing well is like a kick to the balls. But you really should stop before you look even more of the village idiot, who fell into a vat of cow manure.


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amiga500   
18 May 2023
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]

He's saying that the goverment is not giving them/you 800+ it comes from our/my pocket and given to people who don't deserve it. it is the typical neo-liberal konfa line

also he said taxes will go up can't you stupid people see this , funny when 500+ was introduced taxes did not up as the POrks said but went down instead!

This Dziki Palant does not realise he is paying one of the lowest business tax and income tax in europe!

Also the PO fake economists said that 500+ would stop people from working and just bludge, well why is unemployment the lowest in modern poland history and lowest in europe. Introducing child care which is normal in civilised countries elicits such a stupid response from people i will never know. I guess some people are just selfish c*nts.

I like how he summed up a segment of Polish society (PiS voters mainly, I guess):

Yes I am very aware of your contemptuous and hateful attitudes towards your fellow poles, You sound just like Tusk who recently said PiS voters were pathological, who drink, beat their children, beat women and have not worked for many years.

Disgusting, divisive behaviour from both you and traitor tusk, but i guess if that's how you get your jollies, hejter towards 50 percent of poland.
amiga500   
18 May 2023
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]

one of the most popular influencers on the Polish internet

Yes I heard on tok fm that konfederacja is very big on youth social media these days, this guy is just a konfa fool wacked out on amfeta/mefedron and steroids, and for you to post it demonstrates a comparable level of inteligence.
amiga500   
18 May 2023
Life / In need of good Polish jokes about Polish culture, people, etc [239]

A Polish man finds a genie in a bottle, one decades-old joke goes. The genie offers him three wishes.

The Pole says, "I want the Mongols to invade Poland and then go back to Mongolia."

So it happens.

For his next wish, the Pole also asks for the Mongols to invade Poland and then go home.

So it happens.

For his third wish, the Pole again asks for the Mongols to invade Poland and go home."

I gave you three wishes," the genie cries. "Why did you ask for the Mongols to invade Poland and then go home three times?"

"Because they had to march across Russia six times."
amiga500   
17 May 2023
News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]

Economic development in Europe since 2019:

Poland: +11.2%
Nordics: +5.3% (avg)
Italy, Portugal: +3.4% (avg)
France: +1.3%
Germany, Spain: ~Flat
UK: -0.5%
Czechia: -0.9%

(GDP in Q1'23 vs Q4'19)

Did I mention the lowest unemployment rate in EU?
amiga500   
16 May 2023
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]

So now all that talk about free kiełbasy for useless voters and we cannot affordsocial spending because poland very poor blah blah has gone out the window, now tusk is saying 800+ should be introduced ASAP on june 1st instead of PiS plan to introduce it when inflation has gone down in 2024. lol, this idiot has no idea what he is doing.

Stop lying to my face like your parents when they betrayed their friends to the stalinists, free medicines for 75 and over is ongoing. there are more than 2000 medicines on the list.
amiga500   
15 May 2023
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]

What will Tusk come up with? More divisive rhetoric that these pathological elderly scum are sniffing vodka and fentanyl so they cannot afford to pay for lifesaving medicines?


  • Tusk watching PiS
amiga500   
28 Apr 2023
News / EU, Germany, Euros and Poland. [54]

Well it seems Bratwurst was right that once Poland starts paying into the EU it will change things as it seems Germany will need it!

"As Germany's population continues to set new record highs and migrants are set to cost taxpayers over €36 billion in 2023, there are those warning that severe social consequences could ensue.

Tübingen Mayor Boris Palmer, of the Green party, is one of those voices, and in many ways, due to his popularity and party affiliation, his voice carries more weight than others.

Palmer told Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung this week that "if we use all of society's resources for the new arrivals, but there is nothing left for the local people, then this society will explode." He continued by saying that due to the mass influx of migrants, Germany's social system will eventually be exhausted.

Also it means I was right too, eventually German refugees will be heading to Poland due to global/national economic collapse and to avoid their fellow citizens who want to put them under neighbourhood islamic law, or at least have no qualms about jumping the line or taking their wallet when times are tough .|

rmx.news/article/green-party-mayor-high-spending-on-migrants-in-germany-threatens-to-explode-society/