Well my homeland is the United States.....period.
Exactly.
Beats me how you can use the term "Polish American" if your homeland is America, though.
Well Delphiandomine even you said in an earlier post that the Key Financial Decision makers in Poland like the Polish Banking authorities, handled the money/banking issues in a conservative way which helped the economy. That's what I was talking about when I spoke about Polish frugalness (you can maybe say a term used loosely).
It wasn't the banking authorities that decided this - it was the banks themselves. Bearing in mind that all but two banks are foreign owned (and one of the Polish banks absolutely must play it safe by virtue of who they are) - "Polish frugalness" had nothing to do with it. It was simply a lucky break caused by specific market conditions in Poland.
I don't know, knowing your real feelings about Poles in Poland and Poland itself, if that's the recomendation of somebody like yourself, then maybe the opposite would be the best for Poland?? LOL
The alternative is a growing ZUS deficit, more employee-friendly laws, more bureaucracy and generally a business climate similar to the mid 1990's which was absolutely hideously unappealing. The next government has to be able to take the issue by the horns, or Poland is in trouble.
Stop sending everyone to university, instead concentrate on putting the kids with talent through, and give them the best education possible.
This is one of the huge problems in Poland - the mentality that you are no-one without a Masters degree. The easiest way to solve that is to introduce tuition fees that really hammer people taking second degrees and to only allow people to sit a Masters degree if they got high grades in the BA/BSc. And drop the ******* stupid requirement for a university to have a certain amount of professors in each department in order to be able to award degrees!
Drastically lower the cost of employing labor, and make it easier for employers to lay off employees.
Poland is a mess in respects to contracts - you can easily keep someone on temporary contracts for years, but the second you give them a permanent contract, they've got you by the balls. I'm not surprised that many employers simply refuse to give them - why would they risk it?
And of course, pension reform, which will be one the biggies coming up.
It needs to happen in the next government, and it's going to hurt. But ZUS is in so much trouble financially that there's really no other option. Still, the raiding of the OFE funds isn't going to encourage anyone :(