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Sunday, October 22, 2006 |
LATimes: "Central Europe 'is facing two common dynamics', said Krisztian Szabados, director of Political Capital, a research and consulting institute in Budapest. 'The first is that people raised in communism believe that for every problem, the state must provide a solution. The second problem arises out of the first. There is a rising populism. People want protection from globalization and market economies.'
The region's political map bristles with unease: Conservatives in Poland have postponed reforms and realigned with a populist party to avoid another government collapse, lawmakers in the Czech Republic are paralyzed by ideological differences, and the reformers who improved the Slovakian economy were ousted by populists and right-wing nationalists. In Hungary, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany faces protests outside parliament after he admitted lying to voters 'morning, evening and night' about public spending."
Voters feel twice duped. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and communism vanished, joy gave way to uncompromising capitalism. Now, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia must shrink deficits and cut social programs to be eligible for European Union development grants and move closer to their Western counterparts."
What else are governments for than to provide solutions the individual cannot accomplish? Anyway, the economic situation is always manufactured by the government, be it communist or capitalist. Economy is manufactured on a day-by-day basis. The neocon economy is nothing but a planned economy that only caters to the rich and exploits the poor and middle classes. The neocon global empire sees governments as the facilitators to their wealth, which is in part based on exploiting - not fostering - the population. In short and in the end, it will be worse than communism, it's corporate fascism. And it includes the breaking down of rights, health care, welfare and a social environment.
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© Copyright 2006 Hetty Litjens.
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