Romanian government to cut 100,000 jobs

[Barrister]

State employees are like the state's cancer

[Martinus]

Poland is so increasingly and boringly petit bourgeois these days, it's painful. The only people really hit by the global crisis was a bunch of idiots (both individuals and corporations) who invested heavily in FX futures and could not hedge it when zloty plunged; but it's climbing back so the situation is pretty much back to normal. We are still experiencing economic growth and people think the best idea is deregulation and lowering taxes. Noone wants to vote for the socialists, who support gay marriage. 

[Josquius]

Poland is so increasingly and boringly petit bourgeois these days, it's painful. The only people really hit by the global crisis was a bunch of idiots (both individuals and corporations) who invested heavily in FX futures and could not hedge it when zloty plunged; but it's climbing back so the situation is pretty much back to normal. We are still experiencing economic growth and people think the best idea is deregulation and lowering taxes. Noone wants to vote for the socialists, who support gay marriage. 

Are you not having issues due to all those Poles who left Britain when the crisis hit?

[Martinus]

Poland is so increasingly and boringly petit bourgeois these days, it's painful. The only people really hit by the global crisis was a bunch of idiots (both individuals and corporations) who invested heavily in FX futures and could not hedge it when zloty plunged; but it's climbing back so the situation is pretty much back to normal. We are still experiencing economic growth and people think the best idea is deregulation and lowering taxes. Noone wants to vote for the socialists, who support gay marriage. 

Are you not having issues due to all those Poles who left Britain when the crisis hit?

Not really. We are used to having unemployed around 10% so it's not a big deal, socially. Plus the market is picking up again after the initial slump. The general consensus is that the world crisis has so far pretty much left Poland alone (and we did some freeriding on the German bailout money since a lot of it ended up in Poland ).

[Zanza]

(and we did some freeriding on the German bailout money since a lot of it ended up in Poland ).

How? Except for some minor amounts of money of the car scrappage scheme I can't think of any measure that would directly benefit Poland...  And the car scrappage scheme was not really a "bailout", but rather an extraordinary subsidy.

[Razgovory]

Poland is so increasingly and boringly petit bourgeois these days, it's painful. The only people really hit by the global crisis was a bunch of idiots (both individuals and corporations) who invested heavily in FX futures and could not hedge it when zloty plunged; but it's climbing back so the situation is pretty much back to normal. We are still experiencing economic growth and people think the best idea is deregulation and lowering taxes. Noone wants to vote for the socialists, who support gay marriage. 

Maybe the Russians can come back.

[Martinus]

(and we did some freeriding on the German bailout money since a lot of it ended up in Poland ).

How? Except for some minor amounts of money of the car scrappage scheme I can't think of any measure that would directly benefit Poland...  And the car scrappage scheme was not really a "bailout", but rather an extraordinary subsidy.

Maybe I was too facetious but our economies are very closely intertwined and money flows from Germany to Poland as both investment and commerce. Since Polish government did not use any "quantitative easement" measures, and your government did a lot of it, then a lot of that money trickled down here.

[Alexandru H.]

To maintain the theme of this thread...

The loser of the last presidential elections says that he lost because of magic...

Geoana: Basescu uses esoteric experts at Cotroceni, I saw them during the debate and in consultations

Mircea Geoana (the candidate) is still haunted by his election defeat and joined Viorel Hrebenciuc (his biggest ally) in allegations that Traian Basescu (winner) used esotericism experts to win another term in office. Moreover, Geoana said that he himself saw these experts in action during his confrontation with Basescu and then again at Cotroceni Palace, during the president's consultations with parties.

"During the debate, I saw people working with Basescu in this field, they were sitting on the right side of the camera and doing their thing. What they were doing, I don't know, but I saw them again at Cotroceni Palace during talks with parties. The same citizen sitting quietly in a corner, in the president's house. That must mean something", Geoana said.

"Mr. Basescu believes in these things because he uses them. It's one thing to use them in the campaign, it's his business what he uses them for, but it's a different thing when the presidential administration uses them so let me ask the people who are handling the president's protection and the national security system's integrity what these sorts of people are doing next to the president when he does his work as head of state, not as a candidate," the socialist leader added.

Geoana's comments come a few weeks after his campaign chief, Viorel Hrebenciuc, declared himself an esotericism adept and said Basescu was helped in his campaign by the "Violet Flame."

Recently, general Emil Strainu, a doctor in unconventional matters, said Basescu was helped in the televised debate against Geoana by groups of metaphysics specialists. Based on the esoteric model of the "Witches' Star," the groups were arranged in the shape of a pentagram, around the Palace of Parliament, where the debate was held.

Strainu said several specialists in the occult were hired on the campaign staffs of most important presidential runners. "From the information I have, during the last confrontation between Basescu and Geoana, one of the pentagram had its top corner in Cismigiu Park, it was made of 20 people, two other corners were in Izvor Park and at the monument on 13 Septembrie Boulevard and the last two corners were next to Level club and Puisor Post Office. The best in parapsychology won," Strainu said.

Metaphysics specialists are described by general Strainu as some sort of contemporary wizards who can influence the intellectual capacities or health of people chosen as targets.

His wife is on his side

"I think he was very much energetically attacked, there were people in the room, who were working on this. He was not attacked all the time, only on certain moments, which were probably decisive attacks. I felt it a lot, I did not have energy, I could not do anything, I could not concentrate, I was not myself." said Mihaela Geoana.

This is the opinion of the socialist leader's wife, disappointed by the result of the elections, which she still considers an electoral fraud. Invited at Antena 3, at the news journal, Mihaela Geoana, showed concerned that, after such experiences, people can get used to the idea that anything can be stolen in Romania.

[Alexandru H.]

Here we take our magic spells seriously... 

[The Brain]

I used autoeroticism to get through the latest Social Dem government.